For filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, he’s often invoked the comment of filmmaker Francois Truffaut who observed that “A good movie is the perfect blend of truth and spectacle.” The dovetailing of those two storytelling approaches has defined Zemeckis’ movies across the decades with fascinating results.
With Zemeckis’ latest film Here, visual effects studio DNEG has visualised a very particular concept for the film that is anchored in a fixed camera position depicting all of the action of the story. We've already seen how AI was used to de-age Tom Hanks for Here, a film that reunites director and star of Forest Gump, one of the best VFX movies of the 90s.
