The Castaway


Comments: I've always been a fan of director Robert Zemeckis, his Forrest Gump and Back To The Future Trilogy were classics and amazingly amongst the best movie ever created. I guess this one is gonna be a great hit, look at the cast, yhis is something new, Helen Hunt and Tom Hanks, two of the best actors that look and act good on screen. I don't see why this movie can go wrong. It's still under production, so, we'll be seing this one on cinema in the next millenium. Hanks and Hunt definitely will deliver their best, for a romantic comedy, Hanks did give us Sleepless In Seattle with superb performance(You've Got Mail sucks!The movie, not the acting) and Helen Hunt can always give us her Mad About You's character, funny, witty, blunt and intelligent. About the place of shooting in Malaysia, I haven't heard any news about it. I wonder why the script did mention Malaysia.

Distributed by DreamWorks and 20th Century Fox

Genre : Drama

Writers : Tom Hanks and William Broyles (Apollo 13)

Director : Robert Zemeckis

Cast : Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt

Plot : It's about a man's struggle to survive on a desert island

Release Date : Unknown

This project will result in one of the most unusual movie shooting schedules ever. Zemeckis and Hanks will begin shooting the movie early next year. At a point in the movie, they will halt production, and Zemeckis will begin to work on his other project "What Lies Beneath". During that period, Hanks will be on a severe diet and will have to lose weight. It will be the equivalent of what Dennis Quaid did for his role of Doc Holliday in Wyatt Earp. Once Hanks is thin enough, he and Zemeckis will return to finish the film.

20th Century Fox and DreamWorks will split distribution rights for director Robert Zemeckis’ next two films, "The Castaway" and "What Lies Beneath".

-Helen Hunt is set to play Tom Hanks' girlfriend in Robert Zemeckis "Cast Away". "Hunt will play Kelly, a woman fed up with her workaholic boyfriend's commitment phobia, who doesn't realize when he is paged to make an emergency trip to Malaysia that they will be apart for four years." (Hollywood Reporter)

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