
It starts with Henry telling a sleeping Danny Zakarweski (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) that there’s a sniper on the roof and he’s going to distract him so she and Baron (Benedict Wong) can get away. The first sequence screened was shot in Cartagena, Colombia and involves the older assassin Henry Brogen (Smith) being pursued by his younger clone Junior (also Smith via CGI performance capture developed by WETA Digital).

Not only is he recreating the younger look of one of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood using cutting edge CGI technology, he’s screening it at an unforgiving 120 FPS frame rate that makes everything look ten-times more realistic than typical 24FPS. That was Lee just before the three scenes unspooled, and it was no wonder he was nervous.

“For Will Smith, one of the biggest movies stars, to be watched and examined this way takes a lot of courage and heart.” “The familiarity we have with the human face is the most of all the things we recognize,” said Lee in his introduction. RELATED: New Gemini Man Trailer Has Smith vs Smith! Check out our rundown of the footage and quotes from the Smith and the filmmakers below! Paramount Pictures invited to the Paramount lot in Los Angeles to be among the first audience in the world to see extended Gemini Man footage, and in eye-popping 120 frames-per-second 3D! Director Ang Lee, Producer Jerry Bruckheimer and superstar Will Smith were all on hand to discuss their process in bringing this extraordinary original sci-fi story to life.
