Joining Academy Award winner Brie Larson, Riz Ahmed will also be lending his voice to Weathering With You. The film is a project of acclaimed director Makoto Shinkai. The film is scheduled to release on January 17.
Weathering With You was the number one film in Japan and was sent to the Oscars as the official selection in the best feature Oscar category.
As for the story, the synopsis, according to Hollywood Reporter goes something like this: “The story centers on a high school freshman named Hodaka who runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every day, as if to suggest his future. He lives his days in isolation, but finally finds work as a writer for a mysterious occult magazine. Then one day, Hodaka meets Hina on a busy street corner. This bright and strong-willed girl possesses a strange and wonderful ability: the power to stop the rain and clear the sky.”
Riz Ahmed is best known for the HBO series, The Night Of and Venom, a superhero film, while Brie Larson is the not only the star of Netflix’s Glow but also won an Oscar for her performance in the film, Room in 2016.
Whether the same trio produces new music or adds further members remains to be seen. Even more important, can they produce another album as brilliant as Parwaaz or Azaadi. Time will tell.
