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5 unusual facts about Cast Away


Awaz - Dil Se Dil Tak

It is the Indian version of the Hollywood hit Cast Away, a Mumbai-London flight gets hijacked and a tussle ensues between the passengers and the hijackers resulting in a plane crash.

Final play of Super Bowl XXXIV

In the 2000 film Cast Away, Tom Hanks' character returns from being stranded on an island for four years to his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee.

Sylva, North Carolina

Nick Searcy, actor in Cast Away, also played a sheriff in The Fugitive (which had filming in Sylva)

Tales Don't Tell Themselves

Basically, Cast Away meets The Perfect Storm, it has a lot to do with my own personal fears of the ocean and coming to terms with that through the story.

What Lies Beneath

Zemeckis filmed What Lies Beneath while production on his other film, Cast Away, was shut down to allow Tom Hanks to lose weight and grow a beard for his character's development.



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John Rodd

Films worked on while on staff as Orchestral Scoring Recordist at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox include I, Robot, The Last Samurai, Spider-Man 2, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Matrix (trilogy), Cast Away, X-2, Jurassic Park III, The Bourne Identity, Road to Perdition and The Sixth Sense.

Tang Shengzhi

Frank Tillman Durdin of the New York Times and Archibald Steele of the Chicago Daily News saw many of the Chinese troops loot shops for food and other supplies, cast away their arms and shed their uniforms in the street.

Viking Prince

The Viking Prince appears briefly in Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier, a story of his being cast away and washing up on Dinosaur Island is told in a book discovered by the Martian Manhunter in his guise of John Jones.