The American actor is about to reunite with director Robert Zemeckis and screenwriter Eric Roth for an ambitious adaptation of the graphic novel Here (Right here) by Richard McGuire, winner of the Fauve d’or at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2016.
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Tom Hanks, recently spotted in the first trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s biopic of Elvis Presley as Colonel Parker, the King of Rock’n’Roll’s impresario, will reunite with his favorite director Robert Zemeckis (Alone in the world, Le Pôle Express) and screenwriter Eric Roth nearly 30 years after the release of Forrest Gump, who won six Oscars in 1995. The shock trio will therefore reform for the first time and tackle the adaptation ofRight here, the audacious graphic novel by Richard McGuire which tells the story of a single place through time.
Voted best comic book album at the Angoulême Festival in 2016, Richard McGuire’s album upset the codes of comics by repeating a single angle – that of the living room of the house in New Jersey where McGuire grew up – over more than 300 pages, associating each box with a specific date. A story both visual and experimental intertwining temporalities (from the most distant past to a very distant future) imagined by Richard McGuire at the end of the 1980s, the first six plates of which were initially published in the magazine Raw.
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The adaptation ofRight here will mark the fifth collaboration between Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks, who recently worked together on the remake in live action from Pinocchio for Disney (not to be confused with the adaptation signed William Del Toro for Netflix), currently in post-production. Given Zemeckis’ obsession with finding groundbreaking new elements to bring to Hollywood cinema, one can expect a film that’s ambitious both visually and scriptwise (given thatRight here a priori does not include a main character).
It’s also a big new challenge for Eric Roth, the screenwriter of Revelations (Michael Mann) Munich (Steven Spielberg), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (David Fincher) or even Dune (Denis Villeneuve). Roth recently signed the screenplay for Killers of the Flower Moon, the next movie from Martin Scorsese with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert de Niro, produced by AppleTV +, which should be released in theaters by the end of the year and perhaps more precisely in November, according to the words of the screenwriter, recently interviewed by IndieWire.
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