‘Gemini Man’ is here
View(s):Hollywood sci-fi thriller movie ‘Gemini Man’ directed by Ang Lee is now being screened at the leading theatres in Colombo and the suburbs.
Starring Will Smith, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Clive Owen, and Benedict Wong in the lead, the film follows a hitman who is targeted by a younger clone of himself. A 20-year dragged film project, the film premiered at the Zurich Film Festival on October 1.
The director and the cast of ‘Gemini Man’ spoke high of the novel approach to filmmaking and its genre. As its director, the two-time Oscar-winning visionary Ang Lee, has it: “We’re not just doing something good, we’re discovering something new – a new concept of filmmaking. Five hundred years from now they’ll look back and go, ‘Oh, for the first 100 years [of making movies] they did that…’ It’s like silent movies, like sound, like colour. We went through all that! This is another dimension.” A dimension in which Will Smith is playing not just the protagonist, the 51-year-old retiring hitman Henry Brogan, but also – through a revolutionary new technology – the antagonistas well, the 23-year-old version of himself, Junior, who will chase and battle his older incarnation across three continents in a series of thrilling action sequences that will challenge what anyone has seen before: one actor, playing two conflicting characters fighting hand-to-hand, in one singularly ground-breaking cinematic experience.
“What we’re doing here has never been done before,” says Will Smith. “When I saw the first test [that the filmmakers put together as a proof of concept], it was a freaky experience. I mean, it was me. I was looking at the perfect 23-year-old version of myself, likesomebody took all the flaws out. It was, like, ‘Damn!’I mean, when you hear about it, it’s a cool-sounding idea, right? But when you see it, it’s cinematically astounding.
When you see it, it gets inside of you. It’s like, ‘Oh, that’s what cloning is!’”
In line with the worldwide release ‘Gemini Man’ was released here on October 11 and it is now being screened at a number of theatres including Liberty by Scope Cinemas, Colombo City Center, Majestic Cinemas, Majestic Cinema Bronze Jaffna, Savoy Cinemas, Cinemax Ja-Ela and Sky Lite Malabe.