In an era when Hollywood is struggling to produce new movie stars and is instead relying on veteran leading actors to anchor films, the pull of de-aging technology has proven irresistible. Films using these visual effects have produced mixed results, but the latest project from one of the industry’s SFX pioneers could prove a watershed moment in Hollywood. Robert Zemeckis, the inventive Oscar-winning filmmaker behind the Back to the Future trilogy and Forrest Gump, is de-aging Tom Hanks and Robin Wright for his highly awaited drama Here. The movie, which uses generative artificial intelligence to create younger versions of its stars, has Hanks, 67, and Wright, 58, playing a couple from youth to old age. Here takes place in the same location — the family’s home — and the camera never moves from a fixed position over the 104-minute runtime. The movie, which also stars Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Dockery, and Gwilym Lee, is based on Richard McGuire’s 2014 graphic novel of the same name. —Keiran Southern