Thirty years after the film Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are back on screen together.
The first trailer for Here, which reunites the actors with Gump director Robert Zemeckis, appeared on June 26. It features the cast members’ most recent effort together.
Zemeckis and Hanks had previously collaborated on movies such as Cast Away, The Polar Express, and Pinocchio, while Zemeckis and Wright once again worked together on Beowulf.
Here is about “multiple families and a special place they inhabit,” according to a synopsis based on Richard McGuire’s graphic novel.
The movie is described as a “tale of love, loss, laughter, and life, all of which happen right here,” with the additional statement that “the story travels through generations, capturing the human experience in its purest form.”
Paul Bettany, Michelle Dockery, and Kelly Reilly are also members of the Here cast. Vanity Fair claims that the entire movie tells its story from a single point of view, and the camera frame never shifts.
“The single perspective never changes, but everything around it does,” Zemeckis said to the site. Indeed, no one else has ever attempted it before. Extremely early silent films, made before the coining of the term “montage,” contain such sequences. Other than that, though, it was a dangerous endeavor.
Hanks, 67, and Wright, 58, portray the characters at various points in their lives.
Regarding their changes, Zemeckis remarks, “It only works because the performances are so good.” Both Tom and Robin immediately realized that they needed to revisit their past selves from forty or fifty years ago, bringing back their energy, posture, and even raising their voices. That sort of thing.
Nov. 15: See this in theaters.