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"Cast Away began in 1994 when Fox executive Elizabeth Gabler told me that Tom Hanks thought there might be a movie in the story of a modern man stranded on a desert island...which Tom jokingly called 'Chuck of the Jungle.'"
So begins William Broyles, Jr.'s fascinating introduction, written exclusively for this book, about the process and challenges inherent in writing a screenplay that was not, by design, going to have a lot of dialogue in it, and about his collaboration with two extraordinarily gifted artists, actor Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis.
In the Newmarket Shooting Script format, the only book tie-in to the film starring Tom Hanks (Road To Perdition, Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump) and Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets), directed by the Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Contact, What Lies Beneath), written by William Broyles, Jr. (Unfaithful, Planet of the Apes)—from 20th Century Fox and DreamWorks. Oscar-winner Tom Hanks stars as a FedEx inspector who survives a plane crash that leaves him stranded, alone, on a remote desert island for four years. A contemporary drama, Cast Away is about a man who is isolated and forced to transform himself in order to survive both physically and emotionally, and his adjustment when he finally does return to civilization and to his fiancee.
The Newmarket book includes the complete shooting script, an introduction by William Broyles, Jr. who spent six years in collaboration with Hanks on Cast Away, a preface to the script by Robert Zemeckis, movie stills, and the complete cast and crew credits.
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