The “Forrest Gump” makers
Trio around Tom Hanks is making a film together
Actor Tom Hanks surrounded by Robert Zemeckis (left) and Eric Roth.
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Oscar trio Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis and Eric Roth are set to work on a film together for the first time since Forrest Gump.
It has been almost 30 years since a trio wrote film history: Director Robert Zemeckis (70) captured a film in 1994 based on a script by Eric Roth (76) and starring Tom Hanks (65), for which each of them made a film Oscar won: “Forrest Gump”. Hard to believe, but only now are the three according to a report by Variety do things together again. They plan to adapt Richard McGuire’s 2014 graphic novel Here into a movie together.
As with Forrest Gump, Zemeckis will direct, Roth will write the screenplay and Hanks will star. The story definitely has Oscar potential: “Here” is a kind of chamber play whose entire plot takes place in a single spot and shows what has happened there over the course of thousands of years – a cinematic time-lapse recording, if you will.
All three reunited for the first time
Although the planned cooperation is the trio’s first since 1994, their paths crossed again and again, at least individually. Among other things, Zemeckis shot the films “Cast Away” and “The Polar Express” with Hanks. Roth, meanwhile, was penning the screenplay for Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, which Hanks also starred in.
Completely independent of Hanks and Zemeckis, Roth can hope for an Oscar again in a few weeks. He is nominated for a golden boy at the Academy Awards on March 27 alongside Denis Villeneuve (54) and Jon Spaihts (52) for the adapted screenplay for “Dune”.