Tom Hanks New Movie Never Moves The Camera
Time certainly passes differently depending on what age you’re at but Robert Zemeckis is going to tie it all together in his upcoming project. Starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, the new movie titled Here will showcase generations of life in a single location. To achieve this level of continuity, the filmmaker made an incredibly creative choice that will leave the camera in one place and show everything that happened there from the time the dinosaurs were wiped out to when Hanks and Wright’s characters grow old centuries later.
Here hits theaters November 15.
A trailer released to welcome audiences into the world of Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in Here digs into the nostalgia of multiple lives lived from the living room of a family home.
But there’s so much more than that in the history of the land as the very beginning of the teaser reveals a time when dinosaurs roamed, with a forest full of deer romping around centuries later, and folks dressed in colonial clothing walking hand in hand even longer after that. Finally, the love story between Hanks and Wright’s characters is told as they move into what would become their family home.
Here is based on the same-name graphic novel by Richard McGuire.
The reveal that Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are working with Robert Zemeckis on Here is exciting for a few reasons but the main one is that this marks a sort of reunion for the trio after bringing the world the classic 1994 feature, Forrest Gump.
Filling out the Forrest family, the award-winning movie’s writer, Eric Roth, penned the screenplay for Here which is based on the 2014 graphic novel by Richard McGuire. Using state-of-the-art effects, there will be plenty of de-aging techniques implemented to show the change in appearance of the two leading characters from their very first date to their elderly years.
This one will undoubtedly be a tear-jerker as it really pulls on the strings of nostalgia and will give many folks something to relate to as they imagine what took place on the ground where their living room now stands.
Along with leading performances from Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, audiences can expect to see a slew of other familiar faces in Here, including Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), and more.
As we mentioned above, Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Robert Zemeckis will use Here as a reunion for the first time since Forrest Gump. However, this isn’t the first time that the leading man and filmmaker have worked together since Forrest ran across the United States with the duo previously joining forces for Cast Away, The Polar Express, and Disney’s live-action Pinocchio.
Zemeckis is also the visionary behind other iconic titles including the Back to the Future franchise, Death Becomes Her, What Lies Beneath, Flight, Welcome to Marwen, and more.
Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, director Robert Zemeckis, and screenwriter Eric Roth all worked together previously on Forrest Gump.
De-aging has caught a bad rap in recent years, with films like 2023’s Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny receiving mixed reviews from audiences on its use of the technology.
Still, Zemeckis is certain that what he’s done with Tom Hanks and the rest of the cast of Here shows just how terrific de-aging can be when applied correctly. At the end of the day, it will be up to viewers and critics to decide when Here arrives in cinemas on November 15.
