J.J. Abrams and Paramount Pictures have announced they’ll be turning the critically acclaimed Japanese anime Your Name into a live-action film. Abrams’ production company Bad Robot and Paramount will work with Toho, the company that produced the original film. Your Name was released in 2016 and follows the story of a boy and a girl who find they have the ability to swap bodies, going on a quest to
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