Produced by J.J. Abrams:
http://deadline.com/2017/09/your-nam...er-1202178451/
I.......don't know how to feel about this. But since the writer of the excellent
Arrival (Eric Heisserer) is involved, looks like they really want this to be good. I wonder how they will translate/westernize all the elements in Shinkai's movie.
Still, I don't know why Hollywood would want to make a live action out of this. All their special effects will not match the beauty of Shinkai's animation and they already done this kind of story before with Keanu Reeves & Sandra Bullock in
The Lake House which resulted in lukewarm-to-negative responses from the US audience.