First Look Photos of Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in Robert Zemeckis' HERE; Interesting New Details Revealed
We’ve got some photos to share with you for director Robert Zemeckis’ upcoming film Here, and they offer a first look at Tom Hanks and Robin Wright at various ages in their lives. We also have some new details on the project.
The movie is an adaptation of Richard McGuire’s graphic novel and the story is described as a “breathtaking and revolutionary odyssey through time and memory.”
“The innovative story is centered around a place in New England where from wilderness, and then, later, a home – love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.”
It’s revealed by Vanity Fair that the movie “takes place entirely from one fixed point of view. The camera never budges. It doesn’t zoom and never even turns. What does move—and rather quickly—is time.”
Zemeckis said: “The single perspective never changes, but everything around it does. It’s actually never been done before. There are similar scenes in very early silent movies, before the language of montage was invented. But other than that, yeah, it was a risky venture.”
This is a very interesting and unique way to tell a story in a film and I’m really curious about seeing what that looks like visually as the story plays out.
The filmmaker added: “That’s the excitement of it. What passes by this view of the universe? I think it’s an interesting way to do a meditation on mortality. It taps into the universal theme that everything passes.”
When talking about how the project came about, he said: “We were in London, musing about movies, and we were both talking about, ‘Is there a possibility to do something that is completely unique, something that has never been done?’
“And I said, ‘Well, there’s this graphic novel that I’ve never been able to get out of my mind. It’s called Here.’ That night, Tom went home, bought the book on Kindle, and came back the next morning and said, ‘My God, that’s it. That’s the one!’
In the film, Hanks plays a baby boomer named Richard, “who at certain times in the story is approximately his own age of 67 but also traverses the decades thanks to traditional makeup effects, as well as digital de-aging effects. Hanks ages into his late 80s and also goes backward to when Richard was a very young man in the 1960s—looking just like two-time Oscar winner did on his TV show debut as the baby-faced star of 1980’s Bosom Buddies.”
Wright joins the story during Richard’s late teenage years “as his girlfriend and later wife, Margaret, as the couple raise their own children in the house he grew up in, and also goes from looking decades younger to old age as her lively, more adventurous character pulls her husband through the changing times.”
The movie also stars Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey) and Gwilym Lee (Bohemian Rhapsody) as the home’s “first residents at the dawn of the 20th century, an aviator and his wife who never suspect how soon their living room will be used for a funeral wake.”
David Fynn (The Mauritanian) and Ophelia Lovibond (Guardians of the Galaxy) costar as “an inventor and a pin-up model living the high life in the home during the Roaring Twenties, while Nicholas Pinnock (For Life) and Nikki Amuka-Bird (Knock at the Cabin) play a couple who lives in the home after Hanks and Wright, chronicling the social upheaval of 2020 in their own family, as well as their housekeeper (played by Anya Marco Harris.)”
I’m excited about watching this movie! It sounds like it’s going to be a great and unique movie-going experience.
