Tom Hanks and Robin Wright are rejuvenated with the help of AI in the movie “Here.”
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Sony Pictures has revealed the first trailer and images of the film “Here”, based on the graphic novel by Richard McGuire. The film reunites after thirty years the performers Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, protagonists of “Forrest Gump”, who join the director of both films, Robert Zemeckis.
The preview, lasting a minute and a half, begins by presenting the idea of the film, showing a location throughout the years, from prehistoric times to the present day. “A cinematic journey through time,” explains the trailer as time moves forward in the same room in which the artificially rejuvenated Hanks and Wright fall in love.
“I could spend the rest of my life here,” says Wright’s character, and, indeed, she will spend it accompanied by Hanks building a family in that home. “Set in a single room, ‘Here’ follows the numerous generations of inhabitants who made that room their home. An original story of love, loss, laughter and life, which will make us travel from a very remote past to the near future. This exciting journey over hundreds of thousands of years will take place, from beginning to end, in one place: here,” reads the official synopsis of the film.
AI as a tool to rejuvenate and age
Zemeckis, passionate about technology and visual effects, has turned to Methaphysic Live for this film, an AI tool that serves to rejuvenate and age actors’ faces in real time, without the need for special effects.
Hanks and Wright will be joined by Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind, Dogville), Kelly Reilly (The Flight, Mystery in Venice), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey). Zemeckis wrote the script with Eric Roth, who wrote the book for “Forrest Gump.” Alan Silvestri, as has been customary for 40 years, returns to provide the music for the feature film by the director of films such as “Back to the Future” or “Castaway”.
