Carlos Lopez Estrada to Direct Remake of ‘Your Name’ for Paramount
thewrap.comJ.J. Abrams will produce the film through his Bad Robot production company alongside Jon Cohen Hannah Minghella, and original “Your Name” producer Genki Kawamura for Toho. “Your Name” follows a teenage boy and girl who find themselves switching bodies back and forth.
As they try to discover how this is happening, the pair realizes that they are also switching places at different points in time, and that an unexpected disaster threatens to destroy the girl’s hometown.
The film stands among the top 5 highest grossing films of all time in Japan. Originally a music video director, Estrada made his feature film debut with the 2018 Lionsgate film “Blindspotting” starring Daveed Diggs, which got critical acclaim at Lionsgate.
Estrada returned to Sundance two years later with his sophomore film “Summertime,” which follows a group of slam poets in Los Angeles.
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