Your Name Remake Will Be Americanized, Says Screenwriter io9.gizmodo.com

Would the live-action film stay close to Makoto Shinkai’s original film, or would it do the thing that most American anime adaptations do and, well, make it American?
In an interview with /Film, screenwriter Eric Heisserer (Arrival) shared some of the first new information on the Abrams-produced Your Name remake since it was first announced last year.
Advertisement“They stated if they wanted a Japanese live-action version, they would just do it themselves.
It’s a way to tell an American story, one that’s largely missing from the box office, but also give us an American anime remake that isn’t whitewashed.
“I can say that [my script] was not a Ghost in the Shell-like version,” Heisserer said.