![]() ![]() The only real twist is a dog, and he’s not saying anything. ![]() The scenario is familiar: a blend of everything from The Postman to The Martian, in which a sole survivor must dig deep - and, in this case, pass the knowledge of the human race (or 72 per cent of it) on to Artificial Intelligence before he dies. Neither does Finch ever run out of water, or gas, or battery power for Josh (certainly a problem after the van’s solar panels are crushed). On one occasion, our heroes are followed by a car, but no human ever emerges from it. All the peril en route comes - repeatedly - from weather events, and Hanks has to work overtime to convey terror when there’s nothing tangible in pursuit. Finch keeps to his workshop in a blighted St Louis - and the occasional (dog)food raid - until he realises time is running out, and the trio takes to the road in his specially-designed camper van in search of the Golden Gate Bridge. The robotics and creature design, initially on display in Dewey, a dumpy WALL-E-like modified lunar rover, and later in the striking concept for Josh, are first-class.Īdults, though, may require something more in the way of drama from this road trip. Goodyear is played by a real-life stray dog called Seamus who all but chews on the camera and runs off with it. ![]() It also houses a terrifying dystopian scenario in a dog-kennel of cuteness: Josh, the ‘newborn’ robot voiced winningly by Landry Jones, starts out speaking like Stephen Hawking (with a Russian accent) and makes many sweetly-destructive teenager-y mistakes until he comes into his own and finds the voice of an American boy. This soft sci-fi hits all the hot-topic buttons for today’s younger teens, concerned about the environment and their own futures. A robotics engineer, Finch is creating Jeff (voiced by Caleb Landry Jones) to look after Goodyear when he is no longer around - which will happen sooner rather than later due to irreparable radiation damage. Houses a terrifying dystopian scenario in a dog-kennel of cutenessįamily-focused to a fault - notwithstanding its too-long running time - Finch is named after protagonist Finch Waldestein (Hanks), who has survived an environmental catastrophe and lives by himself in an underground laboratory with robots he has constructed and a stray dog named Goodyear whom he adores. It’s hard to tell which of the cast is more winning, but all credit to a grizzled Hanks for sharing the screen with a scene-stealing mutt and a bucket of screws. Tom Hanks, an adorable dog and a bumbling robot take to the road in a post-apocalyptic America in this Disney-ish family entertainment, produced indeed by Amblin Entertainment but this time for AppleTV+ (from November 5). "So it's not so different a filmmaking muscle in that sense than when you're doing one of those really big sequences.Dir. "It's the same thing but without the battle, or maybe the battle is being replaced with this post-apocalyptic landscape," Sapochnik said. The learnings from these grim Game of Thrones episodes applied to his latest feature film. These single sentences, in a way, allow me to then keep true to the spine of the story." In 'Hardhome,' it was Jon Snow again - Jon valiantly tries to save the Wildlings and fails. In 'Battle of the Bastards,' for me it was Jon's journey into the heart of darkness. "What I try to do in any big battle scene is I break it down into pieces, bite-sized chunks or things that I can digest … I try to ask myself the question - 'Whose story is it? Whose point of view is it?' And in that way, I frame out all of the battle and get to the personal story. "One of the big issues is the scope, how the spectacle drowns everything else out," he explained to SYFY WIRE. Getting that balance right is something he learned in his previous work on Game of Thrones. ![]() Sapochnik, whose previous credits include the movie Repo Man as well as several Game of Thrones episodes including the epic "Battle of the Bastards," "Hardhome," and "The Long Night," looked to balance the enormity of what had happened to the planet with the intimate relationships between the three main characters. ![]()
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