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Nate Smith (January 7, 2001). " Cast Away proves great films still exist". Daily Gazette. Archived from the original on June 8, 2011 . Retrieved November 26, 2008. The story goes, that he was forced from the shores of the island further inland after masses of sea lions came to the beaches for mating season. a b c "Cast Away". Chicago. August 2007. Archived from the original on October 29, 2012 . Retrieved December 27, 2008.

Cast Away movie review and film summary (Roger Ebert), archived from the original on May 10, 2021 , retrieved June 14, 2021 The film also helped Wilson's partner, the AVP (Association of Volleyball Professionals), because their logo was also visible on the ball. If they weren’t already, Wilson and the AVP became cemented together forever in the volleyball world. The 6th Critics' Choice Movie Awards Winners and Nominees". Broadcast Film Critics Association. Archived from the original on January 4, 2012. I said ‘OK, you have to tell me something; I have no idea what to say to the media and I keep getting calls.’” Wilson the Volleyball’s public appearances didn’t end at the red carpet. A year or so after "Cast Away" was released, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was racing at Darlington and complained to his crew chief that he was having car problems. “Y’all just make me feel like Tom Hanks out here, all alone,” Earnhardt reportedly said over the radio. “I should just get a volleyball to keep me company.”At this point, all Wallace, Davenport, and Kuehne knew was that a one-sided Wilson Volleyball was going to be in a Tom Hanks movie. And that’s all the information they would have for the better part of a year.

Unlike Tom Hanks in the film, she was left trying to survive in cold climates, with just a cat who had been aboard the ship for company. But in 1998, a call came into Team Sports Communications Manager Molly Wallace that was unlike any she’d ever received. Media executive Lloyd Braun of ABC Studios first suggested the idea of a Cast Away–type television series at a dinner party in 2003. [42] Thom Sherman later pitched the idea for Cast Away – The Series, but never developed the idea. [42] The concept was later developed and pitched with the title Nowhere, which later turned into the ABC show Lost. [42] Tom Hanks joins reunited Phish on stage". EW.com. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020 . Retrieved September 23, 2021.He took a few items with him from the ship, including a knife, bedding and a Bible, and was left to hunt for his own food which included lobsters and feral goats. Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 1721), on the uninhabited island of Mas a Tierra in the Juan Fernándes Islands, where he lived alone for four years. Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based on Selkirk’s experiences (Photo: Getty/Hulton Archive) It was a representative from 20th Century Fox, one of the most prominent production companies in the world. He explained to Molly that the studio was about to start filming a movie and hoped Wilson could provide some balls to be used in the film.

There were several more real life castaways over the years, some of whom had ended up in isolation by force, and others of their own accord. Cast Away lets Hanks fend for himself". Detroit News. December 22, 2000. Archived from the original on June 8, 2011 . Retrieved November 26, 2008. It was during this time, that he also came up with the idea for Wilson the volleyball companion, as a ball washed up on the beach he was staying on and he began to talk to it. The name was Wilson was simply the brand of the ball. Is is based on a true story? Germain, David (December 27, 2000). " 'Cast Away' sails to top of debut list". The Associated Press. The Daily Journal. p.10. Archived from the original on September 26, 2023 . Retrieved September 26, 2023– via Newspapers.com.Another castaway was a French woman Marguerite de La Rocque, who in 1542 was made to stay on an island near Quebec, Île des Démons, after her uncle caught her sleeping with a man aboard their ship and left them both on the uninhabited land. Now here’s where it gets weird: Apparently, a soccer ball washed up on the island where the screenwriter and survivalist were staying. So they threw a hat on it and started talking to it. The marooned ball just so happened to be a Wilson soccer ball, which purportedly inspired the character of Wilson. He later spent more time at sea, continuing his privateering voyages and returned to London for some time, where his story became well known. From a sheer exposure standpoint, this goes much deeper than simple product placement,” said then-General Manager of Wilson Team Sports, Chris Considine. “This bumps us out of the gym and into the arena of pop culture.”

Wilson Sporting Goods is no stranger to product donation requests. For over a century, the company has provided equipment for community organizations, fundraisers, youth sports leagues, pro teams, and everything in between. According to reports in The Austin Chronicle from 2000, the experience taught Broyles more about what it really means to be lonely. Allegedly,the screenwriter of the film was one of these guys who likes to go out and experience what he was writing about,” remembers Davenport.In the creation of the film, screenwriter William Broyles Jr spent a few days alone on an isolated beach near Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, to get an idea of what it was like. I realized it wasn’t just a physical challenge. It was going to be an emotional, spiritual one as well,” he told the publication Also thanks to "Cast Away," Alan Davenport was quoted in the Wall Street Journal and Entertainment Weekly magazine within a month of one another. “I believe my quote was ‘Not every actor can be as well-rounded as Wilson. He is not just another pretty face.'”