costars and are reuniting for another epic love story — and fans will get to see them looking as young as they did in the 1994 classic. Sony released its first look at , the highly anticipated film from director on Tuesday, June 25. The film, based on 2014 graphic novel of the same name, will take place in one living room over the course of 100 years with the camera fixed in a single position for the entirety of the 104-minute runtime.
serves as screenwriter. “Here is an original film about multiple families and a special place they inhabit,” a Sony press release revealed on Tuesday. “The story travels through generations, capturing the human experience in its purest form.
” For the ambitious project, Zemeckis enlisted his stars Hanks, 67, and Wright, 58, who will portray Richard and Margaret, the central couple of the film who go from high school sweethearts to spouses. The duo will appear as their characters from their teenage years in the 1960s to their late ’80s in the present day thanks to de-aging technology and makeup effects. While the movie will primarily focus on Hanks and Wright’s fictional family, it will also give a glimpse into the lives of those who inhabited the home before them, like Richard’s parents, Al ( ) and Rose ( ), a couple at the turn of the 20th century ( and ) and an inventor and a pin-up model during the 1920s ( and ), among others.
“The single perspective never changes, but everything around it does,” Zemeckis told earlier this.