Warner Bros. has acquired remake rights to the 2004 Japanese hit "Be With You," with Jennifer Garner starring and producing via her newly formed Vandalia Films banner says Variety.

Originally directed by Nobuhiro Doi from a novel by Takuji Ichikawa, "Be With You" used a supernatural element to a common love story formula. On her deathbed, a dying young woman tells her husband and young son that she will return to them. A year later, father and son happen upon a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to the dead woman.

Studio will set a filmmaker shortly to steer the script adaptation. Garner, who launched into features after the success of the J.J. Abrams-created series "Alias," recently wrapped "Catch and Release," a romantic comedy for Columbia written and directed by "Erin Brockovich" scribe Susannah Grant.

Thanks to 'Cotton'.