Summary

• The award-winning trio reunites for new picture Here, based on Richard McGuire's novel, which is scheduled for a 2024 release in three stages.
• Here was a groundbreaking comic strip known for its unique storytelling approach, manipulating time and space in a single location.
• Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks, and Eric Roth return for a trippy and big film, starring actors like Robin Wright, Kelly Reilly, and Paul Bettany.

Tom Hanks is reuniting with his former Forrest Gump colleagues, Eric Roth and Robert Zemeckis, for a new project. The trio previously came together for the 1994 Picture winner, which brought Oscars to Hanks (Best Actor), Roth (Best Adapted Screenplay), and Zemeckis (Best Director). Now, all three are going to work together on Here, an adaptation of Richard McGuire’s novel of the same name. The project went into production at the beginning of 2022 and will be released in the U.S. by TriStar Pictures (of Sony Pictures) in a three-step rollout:

• November 15, 2024 – Exclusive LA/NY
• November 22, 2024 – Limited Release
• November 27, 2024 (Wed) – Wide Release

Here was originally published as a six-page comic strip in 1989. McGuire then went on to write a 300-page illustrated graphic novel on the original, which was published in 2014. Here is regarded as one of the most successful and groundbreaking comic strips and is known for its unique approach towards short-form storytelling. The six-page strip depicted the story of a room and the events that occurred in that space at different points in time. The strip became famous for interlocking panels to depict a timeless and ageless story, wherein hundreds of thousands of years intertwine with each other, breathtakingly manipulating time and space in a single location. It almost sounds like another Hanks film, Cloud Atlas.

The novel was an expansion of the strip and would be the one that Roth will adapt for the screen. Just like Forrest Gump, Here will go back and forth in time, but way beyond the 30-year span which depicted the character’s life in the former picture. The film is produced jointly by Zemeckis’ ImageMovers and Hanks’ Playtone. It's produced by Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Derek Hogue and Bill Block. Executive producers are Jeremy Johns, Andrew Golov and Thom Zadra. Here stars Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, and Michelle Dockery, along with many others.

The Long-Awaited Team-Up

It will be the first time in the last three decades that the award-winning trio will work together on a mainstream film. However, Zemeckis has actively worked with Hanks since Forrest Gump. The duo collaborated on Cast Away, which also became a huge success and is included mong Tom Hanks’ best performances. They then worked on the animated film The Polar Express, plus a maligned version of Pinocchio.

Eric Roth, on the other hand, has had several successful projects since Forrest Gump and has scored a total of seven Oscar nominations, the most recent being for adapting Frank Herbert’s novel for Dennis Villeneuve’s Dune. Roth also wrote the screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s recent film, Killers of the Flower Moon, which was also a reunion of Hollywood classic A-listers with Scorsese and two of his longtime collaborators, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.