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Sep 19, 2018 · In preparing to write the script, Broyles spent several days alone in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez trying to survive. He learned how to open a coconut, speared and ate stingrays, and even befriended a washed-up Wilson-brand volleyball.
Dec 7, 2020 · Screenwriter William Broyles, Jr. explains how his time in Vietnam and the failures of his life made Tom Hanks's 'Cast Away' possible.
Apr 6, 2021 · In the creation of the film, screenwriter William Broyles Jr spent a few days alone on an isolated beach near Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, to get an idea of what it was like. According to...
- Tom Hanks didn't want to tell a standard story with Cast Away. In an interview with The Guardian, Tom Hanks explained, “Because there is a standard way of telling this story, and that’s to have a rich, snotty guy who’s obviously not in touch with what’s important and blah, blah, blah, and then he learns a lesson and he’s not like that anymore.
- Cast Away screenwriter William Broyles Jr. stranged himself on an island, for research purposes. William Broyles Jr. spent several days alone in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez trying to fend for himself.
- The entire theme of Cast Away comes from two words. Broyles told the Los Angeles Times the last two words Noland utters—“thank you,” to a woman in a truck—sum up the movie.
- FedEx was cool with the free product placement in Cast Away—and the plane crash. At the time of filming, a FedEx plane hadn’t actually crashed like that in real life—though in 2009 two crew members died in a crash and in August 2015 a plane crashed into the Caribbean Sea—but the company didn’t want to draw attention to the fact that it could happen.
Jun 26, 2022 · As part of his research, Broyles actually stranded himself for a week on an island in the Gulf of California AKA the Sea of Cortez to experience firsthand the challenges the protagonist, Chuck, would face.
Two experts in primitive technology took Broyles to an island near the Sea of Cortez, where the writer, like his fictional creation, was cast away from the world he knew. "The first thing that came to mind was 'Oh, my god, I've got to survive,'" Broyles recalls.
Jun 18, 2021 · "Cast Away" is also based on the real-life research of screenwriter William Broyles Jr., who spent a few days alone on an isolated beach near Mexico's Sea of Cortez.
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