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Jun 11, 2020 · We’ve chosen fifteen key facts behind Cast Away’s unique production to highlight just that, as the path that Zemeckis’ 2000 film took was one that only it could follow. It’s a tale of test ...
- Inspiration
- Hanks' Preparation
- Crew Solidarity
- Day For Night
- Sound FX
- Wilson
- FedEx's Involvement
- Namesake
- Early Draft
- Deleted Scene Fan Theory
While Cast Awaywas scripted by writer William Broyles Jr., the premise of the film came from star Tom Hanks. In particular, Hanks was interested in exploring the idea of what would happen if a Boeing 747 full of mail packages went down in the Pacific Ocean. Hanks then paired the idea with his desire to refashion the desert island subgenre and make ...
Hanks underwent a grueling physical transformation over the course of making Cast Away. Filming began in 1998 after Hanks gained 50 pounds to play the "healthier" version of Chuck. Production was then halted for an entire year while Hanks lost the weight to appear as physically gaunt as possible. In terms of his preparation for the weight gain, Han...
To accurately film the difficulties of living on a desert island, several Cast Awaycrew members were subjected to the harsh living environment Chuck endures through most of the movie. Talk about solidarity! RELATED: 10 Movies To Watch If You Love Cast Away In specific, some crew members were left on the island for a few days to learn survival skill...
Robert Zemeckis has always been at the forefront of cinematic technology (Roger Rabbit, anyone?). But seriously, how many of you knew that the nighttime scenes featured in Cast Awaywere actually shot during the daytime? True talk. Zemeckis went Day for Night, the industry parlance for filming nighttime scenes in the daylight hours. Nearly every sin...
For all intents and purposes, Cast Awayis largely a dialogue-free silent film. Incredibly, all the sounds captured while on the island (including dialogue) had to be replaced in post-production after crashing waves proved too noisy to record on the spot. All told, nearly 90 minutes of sound was recreated in the editing room! Even more shocking is h...
Chuck's reversal of fortune is largely due to his pivotal relationship with a volleyball he refers to as Wilson (the brand name), the face of which Chuck draws from his own blood. While Wilson doesn't speak, a certain method was used to help Hanks interact with the ball. Believe it or not, actual lines of dialogue were written for Wilson the volley...
Much has been made over the years about FedEx's involvement in Cast Away. However, the mailing company did not pay Zemeckis to place their product so prominently in the film. Quite the contrary. RELATED: Hanksgiving: The 10 Best Tom Hanks Performances Of All Time Why would a company endorse a movie that depicts them as being responsible for a catac...
Okay, this one is more of a cool tidbit hiding in plain sight rather than a long-lost BTS fact. But a close look at the protagonist's name all but foreshadows the entire plot of the picture. Hanks plays FedEx exec, Chuck Noland, in the film. Well, if abbreviated, the name can be read as C. Noland. Low and behold, "See No Land" is precisely the exis...
Any early draft of the Cast Awayscreenplay leaned heavily on the psychological ramifications of Chuck's isolation. As such, Chuck's personality was written to be cleaved into split personalities. Just ponder that one for a sec! Indeed, one of the early ideas was to have Chuck speak to himself internally as either Good Chuck or Bad Chuck. The idea w...
Straight out of Stanley Kubrick's playbook, fans are convinced that Zemeckis excised a scene from Cast Awayafter it was released in theaters and on home video. Honestly, have you ever wondered about the mysterious log-dummy that Chuck steals rope from before setting sail? Check this out. On Reddit,some fans report remembering a scene in the film th...
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Oct 3, 2023 · Discover 40 fascinating facts about the iconic movie Cast Away, from Tom Hanks' unforgettable performance to the challenges of filming on a remote island.
Jan 8, 2001 · A two-hour epic about a man stranded on a desert island, "Cast Away" puts a spin on the Robinson Crusoe archetype, with a great performance from Tom Hanks.
- 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.
Oct 1, 2024 · Phillip Schofield’s TV comeback Cast Away is one of the weirdest yet. The disgraced presenter seeks to salvage his reputation by jetting off to Madagascar for a one-man survival challenge.
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Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home ...
