Back to The Future and Forest Gump director Robert Zemeckis has said that his new movie, World War II romantic thriller Allied, is only being called "old-fashioned" because it's not a sequel or a part of a superhero franchise.
In the film, which has just been released in Irish cinemas, Brad Pitt and Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cottilard play two spies who pose as a married couple in Vichy-controlled Casablanca while on a mission to assassinate the German ambassador.
Speaking to RTÉ Entertainment, Zemeckis said: "It's interesting because what's happening is that the term `old-fashioned' is being used to describe original ideas. I don't know if that's good or bad.
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"Personally as a filmmaker, I think it's bad but what I think when you say it's an old-fashioned idea for a movie, what it means is that it's not based on a pre-sold title or a comic book. It's an original idea that a screenwriter wrote."
Zemeckis also laughed off the idea that certain scenes in Allied were a homage to wartime movie classic Casablanca. "No! Obviously those two scenes - the opening scenes take place in Casablanca and there is a scene later with a piano - but they were always in the draft of the screenplay and I think it's a stretch to think that's some kind of echo of the original Michael Curtiz movie."
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