‘Here’ Trailer: Tom Hanks and Robin Wright Get De-Aged and Play Teenagers to 80-Year-Olds in ‘Forrest Gump’ Reunion With Robert Zemeckis
Sony Pictures has released the trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ “Here,” which is the sixth collaboration between the “Forrest Gump” director and his leading man Tom Hanks.
Based on the graphic novel by Richard McGuire, “Here” tells the century-long story of a single house and all the different people who lived there. The camera sits at a fixed angle for the entire 104-minute duration without movin. In another “Forrest Gump” reunion, the film’s main couple is played by Hanks and Robin Wright. The movie’s script is written by Zemeckis and “Forrest Gump” scribe Eric Roth.
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Hanks leads as Vietnam-generation teen Richard, while Wright plays his girlfriend and eventual wife Margaret. Through makeup and de-aging technology, the pair starts the film as teenagers and are well into their 80s by the end. Starring alongside them are Paul Bettany and Kelly Reilly as Richard’s parents, Michelle Dockery and Gwilym Lee as a couple in the early 1900s and David Fynn and Ophelia Lovibond as an inventor and pin-up model during the 1920s.
Zemeckis told Vanity Fair that he had “always been, for some reason, labeled as this visual effects guy,” but aims to fully embrace that title in “Here” to “show the audience things that they don’t see in real life.”
“It only works because the performances are so good,” Zemeckis said. “Both Tom and Robin understood instantly that, ‘Okay, we have to go back and channel what we were like 50 years ago or 40 years ago, and we have to bring that energy, that kind of posture, and even raise our voices higher. That kind of thing.”
“Here” hits theaters Nov. 15. Watch the trailer below.
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