Genre: Drama.
Studio:
Dreamworks SKG.
Production Company:
Image Movers.
Project Phase: Greenlighted.
Who's In It:
Tom Hanks (Chuck).
Who's Making It:
Robert Zemeckis (Director); William Broyles (Screenwriter).
Premise: A man gets stranded on a deserted island and slowly begins to starve to death.
Release Date: Unknown.
Comments: Unknown.
Rumors: Unknown.
Scoop Feedback:
[Page draft submitted by a hungry 'Deadpool'.]
June 11, 1998... Variety reports that Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis, whose last collaboration resulted in a gold rush of Oscars and dollars with Forrest Gump, are planning a reteam early next year on a new project titled The Castaways.
The film is scripted by the writer of Apollo 13, William Broyles, and has been carefully planned in what promises to be one of the most unusual movie shooting schedules ever. While Zemeckis employed technology to morph Hanks' Gump character into black and white historical newsreel footage, the director's plans for Hanks' character in Castaways are even more ambitious.
According to the game plan coming together, Zemeckis and Hanks will begin shooting the movie early next year. At a point in the movie they will halt production. Zemeckis will then switch gears and move over to direct What Lies Beneath, the Clark Gregg-scripted supernatural drama. While Zemeckis works on that film, Hanks will be busy with a project of his own: a radical diet.
Though the project is being kept under tight wraps, it's said to be about a man's struggle to survive on a desert island, which is why Hanks will lose weight on the order of Dennis Quaid's exercise in emaciation to play a sickly Doc Holliday in Lawrence Kasdan's Wyatt Earp. Once Hanks loses the weight and actually looks like he's been starving slowly to death, both he and Zemeckis will return to compete the film.
Zemeckis has been taking his time choosing his next project after directing last summer's (fantastic we must add) Contact. Variety's were quoted that the back-to-back film scenario is the most likely course of action for the project.
Sources said Hanks and Broyles, buddies since their time spent on Apollo 13, have been quietly plotting this film for some time. [Reported by 'Deadpool'; some material originally appeared in Variety.]
January 12, 1999... Columnist Army Archerd reports that Tom Hanks will leave Friday for Moscow for the start of Castawaywhich will take him around the world, including various sites in the South Pacific. People columnist Jeffrey Wells adds that shooting will continue 'til March, then the production will stop to allow Hanks to lose a lot of weight. The tentative plan is to resume shooting in February 2000. The film will presumably open sometime in the fall or during the holidays of 2000. Guess what kids? We'll have a Spielberg/Cruise film and a Hanks/Zemeckis film in the same year from DreamWorks. My my, isn't that special. [Scoop provided by 'Deadpool', who's on a diet.] And wonderfully we finally have a bit more detail about Broyles' plotline for Castaway. Hey, if anyone out there has the script in their hands, could you do us a favor and send a copy our way? We'd love to check it out. Pretty please??
"A little more info on the film .. they are due to start filming in Russia this week or next from what I can gather. The film's lead character, CHUCK, is a Federal Express operations guy who goes from place to place checking that everything runs smoothly and his first stop is Russia. Apparently there's a bit with a ticking click that he sends to see how fast packages arrive or something to that effect. After returning from Russia he then sets out for his next trouble shooting assignment when he gets stranded on the island. Still no date on the when the second half would begin. Too hard to predict I suppose." ['Fierce Trikes'.]
(Normally we're loathe to do this, but when we checked out 'Fierce Trikes' web page listing of the 'nutritional' information contained in the most recent movies, we knew we had to share it with you: home.earthlink.net/~fiercetrikes/NUTRITION.html. You'll love it!}
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