Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite in “Here,” based on the work of New Jersey’s Richard McGuire

In 1994, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright starred in “Forrest Gump.”

The film, directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth (who adapted the story from Winston Groom’s novel), tells the remarkable story of a man through different eras of his life.

“Forrest Gump” won the Academy Award for Best Picture and five other Academy Awards, including Hanks, Zemeckis and Roth.

Now, 30 years later, Hanks, Wright, Zemeckis and Roth are teaming up again.

Their upcoming film, “Here,” is based on the work of New Jersey-born artist Richard McGuire.

McGuire, who grew up in Perth Amboy and is a Rutgers alumnus, is a multidisciplinary artist whose work encompasses visual art but extends to other media. In the early ’80s, McGuire, a bassist and illustrator, became a founding member of the New York band Liquid Liquid, known for the iconic song “Cavern,” which was used in Grandmaster Melle Mel’s 1983 hit “White Lines ( Don’t do it).

“Here” is based on McGuire’s 2014 graphic novel of the same name, which itself was based on a comic short story called “Here” published in 1989 in Raw, a comic book anthology magazine.

A trailer for the film adaptation of “Here” (see video below) shows Hanks and Wright and other people, characters and scenes in the same place, in the same location as the story jumps around time in the same frame.

Throughout the film, the camera is fixed in this location, although various windows appear in space to show what happened in the same location in different years.

Due to the film’s long running time, we see Hanks and Wright at different ages. The actors were “aged” during their performances using Metaphysic Live AI.

“We’re in the right place, at the right time to make this movie,” Zemeckis, who co-wrote the film with Roth, said in a Sony Pictures featurette for the film (see below). “There is a huge library of images of Tom Hanks and Robin Wright at different ages and we can process and apply them like makeup.”

The film follows Hanks and Wright’s characters – Richard Young and Margaret Young – from their childhood, but also, like McGuire’s graphic novel, the life of the space in question, from the prehistoric era to the eve of war of independence, through the 50s and the future.

Paul Bettany, Michelle Dockery and Kelly Reilly play supporting roles.

In the original story, McGuire depicts the living room of his childhood home in Perth Amboy in 1957.

This is the window through which he seemingly depicts all of time – or at least much of it.

Each panel or portal, marked with its year, is a piece of the historical record (and of ages to come).

Sometimes it’s a living room where McGuire shows off his own family, other times it’s a stage occupied by Leni Lenape, Benjamin Franklin or dinosaurs.

The different scenes dialogue with each other – like a buffalo in 10,000 BCE presented next to a young woman on a rug in the living room in 1970.

The artist delved into the history of the region to create the story.

“It’s kind of my family, but it’s not,” McGuire told NJ Advance Media in 2014. “It’s the location, but it’s not really the physical venue. I didn’t want it to be misinterpreted first as a history book, which it isn’t… It’s about impermanence It’s about a. more important thing.

“Here” is expected in theaters on November 15.