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Robert Zemeckis Breaks Down the Cutting Edge Tech That Powered ‘Here’: ‘We Could Not Have Made This Movie Five Years Ago’
Robert Zemeckis used cutting-edge tech to age and de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in his latest film, 'Here," which he calls a 'meditation on life.'
Three decades after making “Forrest Gump,” director Robert Zemeckis is once again looking back in time and pushing filmmaking boundaries as he reteams with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright for his latest effort, “ Here.” This meant following characters including Richard and Wright’s Margaret from their teenage years into old age through vignettes that (in keeping with the design of the novel) occur from a single camera position and transition through a series of portrait panels that open up, rather than through hard cuts, and in a nonlinear fashion. Off-set, the team at Metaphysic included data science pros who trained models from curated photos and film clips of the actors at their various ages (he confirms that the production obtained the rights to use all sourced material).
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