He has no idea whether it's safe there, but they will “head west over the mountains in search of places that haven’t been ransacked and looted.”Īnd so, like all road trip movies, there is a destination (1,811 miles away, the robot notes) with many opportunities for conflict with outside forces and with each other. He has never seen it, but he's had a postcard with a picture of it since he was a teenager. Finch wants to go to San Francisco and see the Golden Gate Bridge. As the storm arrives, they leave in a 1984 Fleetwood RV fueled by solar panels on the roof. Instead of Asimov’s primacy of human life and welfare, Finch tells the robot that his first priority is to care for the dog. Like any good engineer, Finch has programmed the robot with Isaac Asimov’s famous directives, but he adds another, superseding directive. “Tell me something interesting,” he says, and then, when the robot (voiced by Caleb Landry Jones) responds with a fact about giraffes, he says, “Tell me something interesting about you.” But Finch cannot resist investigating what his creation can do. There's a moment of wry humor as the computer program Finch is using to program the robot responds with an all-too-familiar message on the screen: “Please call technical support for assistance.”īecause they have to hurry, only 72 percent of the data is uploaded to the robot, and there's only time for a just a couple of quick lessons on vital matters like walking without falling down. But the storm is getting closer very quickly. And so, he builds a bigger robot, scanning his entire library to upload it as memory. The other conflict becomes more apparent when we see Finch cough up blood. One of them concerns a fast-approaching storm that's so devastating they can no longer stay in his home/lab in St.
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But as the movie begins, Finch has to make some changes. Goodyear the dog and a cute little robot named Dewey (like the one in “ Silent Running”) are his only companions. Creating gizmos and foraging in a high-tech hazmat suit has kept him occupied and helped him stay alive for 15 years after the end of nearly everything. Finch, once an engineer and computer whiz, is a loner and a tinkerer by nature.
Now, even a few seconds in sunlight burns exposed skin. I didn't want Jeff to be just a robot, Jeff needed to be a personality right from the start.A sun flare has wiped out the ozone layer and most human, animal, and plant life on Earth with devastating radiation. Maybe it's my own homage to my daughter, because I admire her, but it was also because it felt like that was the right tone. “I found myself stealing things that she says and putting them into the script. “Jeff has this personality and it's curious, and it's kind of stubborn and it's kind of mischievous, and it reminded me a lot of my daughter.” “When I was working with Ivor and Craig, the writers, we all had our own inspirations as to who Jeff was but I found myself constantly thinking about how Jeff isn't just a robot,” he explained. Sapochnik revealed that the biggest inspiration for the character of Jeff was actually his daughter, who is about to turn nine years-old in December. Ortega/Getty Images) 'Jeff needed to be a personality right from the start' SAN DIEGO, CA - JULY 22: Director Miguel Sapochnik attends the "Game Of Thrones" panel during Comic-Con International 2016 at San Diego Convention Center on Jin San Diego, California. As a very selfish actor, this is the one guy in a movie, with nothing but a dog to play off of and then the robot that he creates almost of his own blood. I began to think of it immediately as a guy who's worried about his dog, nevermind everything else, his dog being a great love of his life. “As soon as the dog comes along, as soon as Goodyear makes his appearance, it becomes a different sort of film. “When I was first reading it I thought, ‘OK, alright, there's a familiar science fiction sort of trope, but what in the world is going to be the new version of what this story is?’” “His daily struggle is one between life and death, between survival and loss,” Hanks said. One of the aspects of the character that attracted Hanks to this role is the “immediately precarious position he is in from the get-go.” “He used to talk about our film, rather than my film or his film, and there's something really special about that because it made it feel like we were, for that short period of time, we were a family, kind of a group of people all with the same end and the same aim, which was to tell a good story.”
“From really the moment we met, it was a conversation and an exchange of ideas and it felt like that all the way through,” the director said. Sapochnik described the process of working with Hanks as a collaboration, working together right from the beginning.
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