Every once in a while, a director will come around with an innovative movie idea. filmed over the course , while wanted to make a movie over the course of 30 years, but he just used some CGI instead and shot it over six months. He’s a busy guy, so that makes sense.
Robert Zemeckis is known for two things: his quirky, often CGI-infused movies, and working with Tom Hanks. Sometimes, those ideas coincide, and that’s how we end up with And is based on the graphic novel of the same name which focuses on over hundreds of years and into the future. Zemeckis wanted to apply this ideal to a film, and was born.
The movie stars who else but Tom Hanks alongside Robin Wright and takes place in one room over 100 years. “The single perspective never changes, but everything around it does,” Zemeckis . “It’s actually never been done before.
There are similar scenes in very early silent movies, before the language of montage was invented. But other than that, yeah, it was a risky venture.” Risky, yes.
But also familiar to anyone who has ever been to The Happiest/Sweatiest Place on Earth, Disney World, and ridden the , a slow-moving ride that is essentially the same premise as and had everyone thinking the same thing. Baby, that's the Carousel of Progress. — Aunt Baby (@mechagogogo) So, it’s a live action version of Disney’s Carousel of Progress? — Melissa Enchanted (@MelissaEnchant) welcome back Carousel of Progress — Mariana Avila✨ (@marianaavilal) Robert Zemeckis.