Tom Hanks and Robin Wright Getting Digitally De-Aged Isn’t Even the Craziest Thing About the ‘Here’ Trailer

If you wanted to see what Tom Hanks and Robin Wright looked like about, say, 30 years ago in a film directed by Robert Zemeckis, there would, of course, be an obvious movie to watch: Forest Gump. But if that somehow wasn’t enough, Zemeckis has fired up the de-aging technology for his next project, Here, which primarily centers around the life of a couple played by Hanks and Wright.

The new trailer for the film opens with a quick tease of what Zemeckis has in store, jumping between a few moments in the relationship with Richard (Hanks) and Margaret (Wright), their faces changing over the decades. But soon enough it becomes abundantly clear that using digital effects to make your lead actors uncannily younger and older isn’t even the most ridiculous narrative device in Here.

The entire film, it turns out, is shot with one camera angle, focused on a single location — the living room of a house. Here will primarily focus on Richard and Margaret’s life in that house, but will also show scenes from the lives of its other inhabitants through the 20th and early 21st centuries. (And to prove his commitment to the bit, Zemeckis uses the same camera angle to show the locale long before the house was ever even built, going all the way back to the time of the dinosaurs.)

Per Vanity Fair, other denizens of the house will be played by Michelle Dockery and Gwilym Lee, who become the first inhabitants in the early 1900s, and David Finn and Ophelia Lovibond, who move in during the 1920s. And after Richard and Margaret move out, the film will follow the next residents, played by Nicholas Pinnock and Nikki Amuka-Bird, who take over the house and live there during 2020 — meaning, brace yourselves, this is also gonna partly be a Covid-19 movie. 

“That’s the excitement of it,” Zemeckis said of the film’s single-perspective narrative device. “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.”

Here is based on Richard McGuire’s 2014 graphic novel, and Zemeckis co-wrote the script with Eric Roth. It’s set to hit theaters on Nov. 15.

From Rolling Stone US.