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Can You Believe It's Only Monday and Seth Meyers Already Has This Much Material?

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Scottish Dragon10/24/2017 10:56:05 am PDT

re: #123 Belafon

I can’t wait to see the script: Michael Bay is going to produce a Dora the Explorer movie.

This made me laugh for nearly a minute.

Last spring I saw the brilliant Japanese anime movie Your Name.

Then this happened a couple of weeks ago…..

theguardian.com

The recent announcement that the Star Wars director JJ Abrams is to make a live-action version of the record-breaking animated film Your Name has prompted a backlash among fans of the original, who fear another Hollywood “whitewash” of a Japanese masterpiece.

Makoto Shinkai’s fantasy about a teenage girl living in a picturesque but unexciting village and a Tokyo schoolboy who are drawn together by gender-swapping dreams has proved a global hit since its release in Japan last year and made more at the box office than any other animated film in history.

The universally positive reception to its visual brilliance and a storyline that skilfully combines body-swapping, the search for love and a dramatic attempt to save a town from destruction have prompted talk of Shinkai as the successor to the acclaimed director Hayao Miyazaki.

The prospect of a Hollywood remake of Your Name - which made $350m (£260m) in 90 countries - has been greeted with both intrigue and concern over the possible loss of the film’s distinctively Japanese flavour, from its Radwimps original soundtrack to Shinkai’s painstakingly recreated Tokyo landmarks and scenes from Nagano prefecture, where he grew up.