Books
Your Name is a Japanese light novel written by Makoto Shinkai. It is a novelization of the animated film of the same name, which was directed by Shinkai. It was published in Japan by Kadokawa on June 18, 2016, a month prior to the film premiere.[115] By September 2016, the light novel had sold around 1,029,000 copies. An official visual guide was also released.[116] The novel sold over 1.3 million copies, while the novel and visual guide sold over 2.5 million copies combined.[117] An audiobook adaptation of its novel will be published by Yen Audio in July 2024.[118]
Live-action film
On September 27, 2017, producer J. J. Abrams and screenwriter Eric Heisserer announced that they were working on a live-action remake of Your Name to be released by Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot, alongside the original film's producers, Toho, who will handle the film's distribution in Japan.[119] The film was being written by Eric Heisserer, who revealed that the Japanese right holders want it to be made from the western point of view.[120] In February 2019, Marc Webb signed on to direct the remake. The film will be about a young Native American woman living in a rural area and a young man from Chicago who discover they are magically and intermittently swapping bodies.[121] In September 2020, Deadline Hollywood reported that Lee Isaac Chung had taken over as both writer and director, working off a draft penned by Emily V. Gordon, with Abrams and Genki Kawamura co-producing.[122] In July 2021, Chung departed from the project, citing scheduling issues.[123] On October 31, 2022, Carlos López Estrada was announced to write and direct the remake, replacing Webb and Chung.[124]
