Lee Isaac Chung To Direct ‘Your Name’ Live-Action Reimagining From Toho, Paramount And Bad Robot
EXCLUSIVE: Lee Isaac Chung will rewrite and direct Paramount, Bad Robot and Toho’s live-action adaptation of Your Name, the reimagined adaptation of the 2016 animated romantic fantasy drama f…
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The original anime pic is still one of Japan’s biggest hits grossing $303 million in Japan alone and when the rights went on the market in 2017, it was instantly one of the hotter rights packages on the market. With Abrams being such a big fan of the original, Paramount and Bad Robot moved fast to acquire the rights to the hit.
As for its new director, Chung is a son of Korean immigrants who grew up on a small farm in rural Arkansas and then attended Yale University, before abandoning plans for medical school to earn his MFA.