Twisters director explains why his live-action adaptation of hit anime Your Name didn't work out: "I realized I had written something I just couldn't even shoot"
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“That was a situation in which I just loved all the people so much,” Chung toldEmpire magazine.
“I like the animated film,” he added, “but what I didn’t realise is how hard it is to adapt a Japanese animated movie and to try to do that for America. That was the goal that Toho had put before us. But it’s really hard to do.”
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