Forrest Gump Tom Hanks and Robin Wright have a de-aged
Published on April 20, 2026 EDT The drama takes place entirely in one living room over the course of 100 years.

Forrest and Jenny are like peas and carrots once more.

Sony has released the first look at Here, the ambitious new drama reuniting Tom Hanks and Robin Wright with Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Eric Roth. The film is based on Richard McGuire’s 2014 graphic novel of the same name, and entirely takes place in one living room over the course of a hundred years, with the camera fixed in a single position for the entirety of the 104-minute runtime.

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Zemeckis explained the unique pitch that attracted him to the project "The single perspective never changes, but everything around it does," he told Vanity Fair. "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."

Hanks and Wright play the central couple that lives in the house, and they portray their characters from their teenage years in the 1960s to their late 80s in the present day (and Hanks’ character arc extends even further back, as he spent his childhood there, too). Though the movie primarily focuses on the Forrest Gump duo’s family, it also will show the house’s previous inhabitants over the years.

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Those familiar with Zemeckis’ previous work shouldn’t be surprised by his methods for transforming Wright and Hanks into teenagers: deaging technology, a la The Irishman. Ever since his masterful union of live-action and hand-drawn animation in 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Zemeckis has been at the forefront of technical innovation in Hollywood — Forrest Gump seamlessly integrated its title character into real archival footage of major historical figures, The Polar Express and Beowulf utilized motion capture animation, and Welcome to Marwen and his Pinocchio remake fused CGI sequences and characters with live-action storytelling.

"I’ve always been, for some reason, labeled as this visual effects guy. But those were always there to serve as the character arc," Zemeckis told VF. "There’s always been a restlessness in trying. I’ve always thought that our job as filmmakers is to show the audience things that they don’t see in real life."

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Sony Pictures

Zemeckis also told the outlet that he and Hanks were brainstorming a potential future collaboration when the idea for Here struck. "We were in London, musing about movies, and we were both talking about, 'Is there a possibility to do something that is completely unique, something that has never been done?'" he recalled. "And I said, 'Well, there’s this graphic novel that I’ve never been able to get out of my mind. It’s called Here.' That night, Tom went home, bought the book on Kindle, and came back the next morning and said, 'My God, that’s it. That’s the one!'"

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Sony Pictures

Here hits theaters Nov. 15.

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