The premise sounds intriguing. It's set in one apartment, it seems, so do not expect big canvasses to work on for Alan, but perhaps some lovely intimate writing in the vein of his superb CONTACT? One can always wish. I'm just glad Zemeckis is doing live action again. I can barely stomach his animated stuff.
Aren't we all. And I'm relieved we're getting non-stage musical adaptation Silvestri again!
Oh gosh, yes. I'm glad for Silvestri's success in every and all arenas, but I've long since tired of the endless BACK TO THE FUTURE musical updates on his Instagram account. Let's move on, please!
I haven't enjoyed a Bob Zemeckis film since THE WALK in 2015. ALLIED was...okay...ish. Watchable, I suppose. MARWEN was a car crash and I haven't made it through THE WITCHES or PINOCCHIO. But I live in hope of another decent film from him (and accompanying Silvestri music score).
FLIGHT was pretty good, I thought (Zemeckis returning to his raunchy USED CARS methodology at times, including cocaine, swearing and sex), but that is already a few years ago.
This story is not so easily defined as "set in one apartment," so there will be a large canvas of experimental context for both Zemekis and Silvestri to explore. If you want to read the original short comic strip it is here, but I know Richard Maguire has expanded upon it with a large graphic novel (which I have not read, but have a copy).
For those who think this won't be heavily animated, please set your expectations that this is a story that will probably showcase a lot of CGI trickery. This is not the Robert Zemekis who made I Wanna Hold Your Hand or devised that incredible formalist long take in Contact. This is the Zemekis who has since made some of the worst CGI animated films of all time and remade Man on Wire so that Joseph Gordon-Levitt could display one of the worst accents imaginable while he walks across a green screen.
I really lower my expectations for Zemekis these days. I actually quite liked Allied, however. It's not a special movie or anything but I just like it because it is remarkably restrained for a Zemekis movie made when it was and feels almost like an old fashioned Hollywood film all things considered.
Flight was good, with great performances but an absolutely terrible selection of the most obvious needle drop songs - but I suppose Forrest Gump was like that too, but it seemed to work. Every other RZ film was a disaster IMO. Although the Witches was very watchable, if unnecessary, and Silvestri's score was EXCELLENT.
And of course, HBO Max pulled it from their service - can ANYONE See The Witches now?
A common misconception. Zemeckis was already in development, working with wire-walker Christopher Petit, when James March's extraordinary documentary "Man on Wire" appeared in 2008. "The Walk" was inspired by Mordicai Gerstein's 2003 children's book "The Man Who Walked Between the Towers" and the screenplay was based in part on Petit's 2002 memoir "To Reach the Clouds."
I know "The Walk" has detractors, but to each his own. It caught my Dad's attention on TV, and he was intrigued enough to read a story I wrote about the making of the film. My Dad didn't read many of my articles, but that one he found interesting, and so I bought him a copy of Petit's autobiography and he enjoyed that, too.
I'm a fan of THE WALK and the documentary film too. It was a mesmerising and stomach flipping experience when I viewed it on the big BIG screen at my local cinema in IMAX. Love the score by Alan Silvestri too. One of my faves by him
I'm always interested in more Silvestri music, although this movie looks like absolute maudlin overkill. I don't think I could stomach an entire film of this!
I'm always interested in more Silvestri music, although this movie looks like absolute maudlin overkill. I don't think I could stomach an entire film of this!
