Screenwriter Damon Lindelof compared this fantasy to Harry Potter, saying, 'What Hogwarts is to magic, Tomorrowland is to science.'
- Oct 9, 2014
AceShowbiz - For over two years, Brad Bird's "Tomorrowland" remained a mystery. The veil was opened on Wednesday, October 8 when the first images, including the first look of lead stars George Clooney and Brittany Robertson, from the upcoming sci-fi/fantasy adventure were shared.
"Tomorrowland" follows a Florida girl who finds a mysterious pin while exploring the launchpads of Cape Canaveral. Touching the pins brings her vision of a place which is different and better than her world. She begins her quest to find the real Tomorrowland as the vision disappears. "At first when she experiences this thing, she's not sure if it's real or not. It's kind of like being hit by a dream and not sure whether the dream was a dream or real," Bird said in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
Robertson plays the young girl while Clooney is a former boy-genius inventor. Both are jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as Tomorrowland.
"We begin our movie asking what did [the future] used to be?" Bird revealed his vision. "What's good about the future and what's scary about it? And we wrestle with those things in a slightly mythical way."
Damon Lindelof wrote the script, adapting the title from one of Disneyland's attractions. "What Hogwarts is to magic, Tomorrowland is to science: They are both easy to find if you are a wizard and very difficult to find if you're a Muggle," said Lindelof. "Walt Disney is not a character in our movie, but he is referenced as having some involvement in this mysterious place called Tomorrowland, as a huge futurist and aficionado of space travel, rocketry, cities of the future, and space travel."
Describing Clooney's character, Bird said, "He's at this farmhouse, and it's probably the house he's grown up in. He hasn't done anything to it. He's done tech stuff inside it, but it's not a super cool bachelor pad. It's more like a guy who is retreating when something didn't go well."
"Tomorrowland" hits U.S. theaters May 22, 2015.
