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In the film Here, their scenes take place in only one living room and they are de-aged by artificial intelligence

- Melena Ryzik

NEW YORK - It is not exactly a Forrest Gump sequel, but the movie Here does reunite the stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, and the film-makers — director Robert Zemeckis, screenwriter Eric Roth and composer Alan Silvestri - of that 1994 Oscar-winning favourite.

Like the earlier film, the new one also travels across decades, with an unheard-of perspective. In this case, the viewpoint is the camera's.

Here is filmed almost entirely from one locked-off shot, with a camera positioned in what becomes the living room of a century-old New England home. There are no cutaways or traditional close-ups, no montages or wide-angle transitions.

It is an experiment in cinematic formalism, inspired by Richard McGuire's ambitious, genre-expanding 2014 graphic novel of the same name.

Though the story starts with the dinosaurs and travels all the way through the present day with different characters, it focuses mostly on Hanks and Wright's boomer couple, Richard and Margaret, whose lives are, by turns, mundane and historicised in that single setting.

The furniture and styles change, and with the help of AI, the stars were digitally de-aged.

The technical challenges of Here, which opens in Singapore cinemas on April 3, energised American actors Wright, 58, and Hanks, 68. There was no crafting — or saving a performance in the edit; no way to cut around a missed mark except to redo a whole scene.

"Tom and I, we're so spoiled, we don't ever want to shoot conventional format again," Wright said of typical cinematography.

These are edited excerpts of the video interview from New York.

The movie came together because both of you and Zemeckis were talking about what was left to do in the world of film, and he showed you the graphic novel?