Between the time a script is written and a film studio finally puts together the money for its production, years can pass. We already saw it a few weeks ago when we talked to you in 3DJuegos de Desafío Total (Total Recall), one of the best science fiction films that was so expensive to make that only a Schwarzenegger at the height of his career in Hollywood was able to unlock the project. Today we come to talk to you about a similar case, although with a different result.
Just four years ago today, the action and science fiction thriller Geminis was released in theaters, a blockbuster that sold with the appeal of seeing Will Smith fighting himself, specifically against a young version of him. For this purpose, a “similar” actor was not sought as in Looper with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, much less his son was hired, but the emerging new technologies were taken advantage of to rejuvenate your star.
It is a tool used ad nauseam in recent years, with examples of it in films such as The Irishman by Martin Scorcese, although it has mainly been Disney who has wanted to take more advantage of it in Star Wars and, more recently, in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. However, Geminis’ proposal went one step further by opting not only to take years off Will Smith’s face for some scenes, but to confront him with his current self.
Clint Eastwood pudo ser Will Smith
But the idea behind Gemini and the rejuvenation of its actors was not something of a specific fashion, but rather a desire of Hollywood from more than 20 years ago. The script for this film where a hitman about to retire of a US federal agency must get rid of another younger agent (who ends up being a young version of himself) was written in 1997. But it soon became very clear that it was unfeasible to do, at least as its producers wanted.
The technology of the late 20th century and early 21st century already worked real miracles, but here an impossible use of the dark arts was requested, which ended with a coming and going of directors, scriptwriters and actors among whom we find such suggestive names. like Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson, Nicolas Cage or Sean Connery, although my favorite was undoubtedly Clint Eastwoodcon Joe Carnahan (The A-Team) Sending Gemini Concept Teaser to Disney.
Gemini – Special metal edition (BD) [Blu-ray]
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Finally, in 2016, Skydance Media took over the script and put together a film with Will Smith as the star and Ang Lee behind the cameras. The film made it clear that perhaps the technology was not yet ready for what was wanted from it, although this was far from the only criticism of Gemini, adding a poor 26% Tomatometer on Rotten Tomatoes and a 5.7/10 on IMDb with complaints about a poor script full of clichés with uninteresting characters.
Where to watch Gemini on television today
That’s what a good part of the press and the public think, and so does this server, but if you want to form your own opinion and hang out with an action and science fiction thriller with less than two hours of footage, you’ll be happy to know that Gemini just launched on Netflix. It is also available through SkyShowtime.
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