Robert Zemeckis admitted as much on Cast Away’s commentary: So what’s a director to do in order to maintain the studio’s faith in such a project? Make another movie, with the same crew, in the off-season. Tom Hanks Took A Year Between Shooting To Lose The WeightĬast Away had one pretty specific catch when it came to being made: it needed to shut down production for a year, so that Tom Hanks could lose the 50 pounds he put on for Chuck Nolan’s pre-island life, and turn into a tanned, svelte Fed-Ex stalwart. Imagine what would have happened if that incident took place during the production of a Star Wars film. …people did hear, and so the security department at the ranch showed up and said ‘What’s happening? Is somebody in danger?’ But nobody was in danger, we shooed them away, and continued our recording. This process was done at Skywalker Ranch, in an area that they thought wouldn’t arouse suspicion, and yet when it came to recording the scene where Tom Hanks yells “Help!” at the top of its lungs, it drew attention pretty quickly: The way that Thom and his crew cracked this challenge was that they’d record pristine audio in the studio, play it outside through a speaker, and re-record it to give it the right sound. Randy Thom’s commentary on working with the film’s soundscape eventually highlighted this fact by mention how the sound department wanted to simulate outdoor acoustics with studio recorded dialogue. Sound was a really crucial component to how Cast Away worked as a film, especially with the absence of a musical score. To crib some dialogue from another Robert Zemeckis classic, that’s pretty heavy.Ĭast Away’s Sound Department Almost Caused An Incident With Skywalker Ranch Security Screenplays are just endlessly rewritten, and endlessly rewritten. Which is the process that you go through when you make a movie. We did 125 rewrites, so there were like millions of changes, hundreds of thousands of them. Well, according to Zemeckis, that number was pretty big: You’re probably wondering how many drafts one would have to go through in order to get to that sort of point. Other interesting concepts that were revealed to be dumped, through director Robert Zemeckis and other speakers, were a vision of Kelly (Helen Hunt) in Chuck’s cave fire, and some other odds and ends. One in particular mentioned that that there was a draft of the film where Wilson was going to come to life and talk. If you haven’t listened to the director and crew commentary of Cast Away, you’re seriously missing out on some interesting facts. At the end, his name has since been removed, indicating that she is now single.There's A Draft Of The Script Where Wilson Came To Life If you notice the gateway over the entrance to her property where another package was delivered at the beginning of the movie, both her name and her husband's was on the overhead ironwork, as well as the angel wings. She was married to the guy in Russia who she was sending packages to, but he was cheating on her. The wings are her artist's "logo." As Hanks stands in the crossroads deciding which way he will go, his looking back in the direction that she just drove off implies he will go back to her house, probably to let her know that she had given him hope while he was on the island that he could someday deliver that package, and possibly to restart his life with her (she is pretty, after all). The angel wings are a plot device to show that the parcel Tom Hanks just delivered to the ranch belongs to the woman (who is an artist) in the truck, which also has the wings painted on the tailgate.
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