Exactly 30 years since its release Forrest GumpTom Hanks and Robin Wright return with director Robert Zemeckis herea single-shot film that takes place entirely in one room and tells the story of a multi-generational family.
Hanks and Wright play a couple in the project as their relationship is tracked over the years. At the AFI Fest premiere in Los Angeles on Friday, Hanks said the collaborative process is “exactly the same” now as it was in the ’90s.
“We had the same conversations over and over again; we would bump into each other from time to time. I would say the first day we sat down to discuss the script and started working on it, there was a feeling of, ‘Can you believe it? How did this happen? hollywood reporter Reunited with Wright. “But that was then and this is now, we know better, so we just easily, backwards and forwards understand each other’s luxury and tremendous trust and affection.”
The actor added that he had no idea Wright would be his co-star when he first signed on. Zemeckis later started pitching the idea, “and I said, ‘Wouldn’t that be great?'” So are we available? Can it be solved? All these other things happen,” Hanks continued. “But when it comes to working together, we have one thing in common: ‘Yes, of course,’ is the only thing you say.”
Zemeckis responds by saying he doesn’t have a grand plan Forrest Gump A reunion was a no-brainer from the start, but “very, very lucky” both stars agreed. To track the actors in the story over decades, the team worked with artificial intelligence studio Metaphysical to develop a tool called Metaphysical Live that can create face swaps and de-aging effects in real time on top of the actors’ performances.
“It’s critical to tell this story – we couldn’t have made this movie five years ago, so it’s very, very lucky that this tool came to us when we needed it,” Zemeckis said, explaining that it’s basically ” “Digital Makeup”. It also allowed the actors to see themselves 20 or 30 years younger while filming the scenes, rather than waiting to add visual effects later, as the filmmaker added, “They looked at it and said, ‘Oh, I It’s important for them to see that in order to be a little more agile, I have to move a little faster, I have to raise my voice a little bit.
here Released on November 1st.
