Cast Away

by Broyles, William J., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781557044815
• ISBN10: 1557044813
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-01
• Publisher: Newmarket Pr

Summary

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. Broyles's introduction shows how a movie and its story evolve, shift, and shape while the creators grapple with all manner of internal and external choices: from developing what was Tom Hanks's idea into a story, and building a narrative structure and thematic threads into a screenplay, to researching the details of the specific - and ironic - situation of a FedEx executive stranded on a desert island.

Author Biography

A decorated Marine veteran, screenwriter William Broyles, Jr. was co-writer of the Apollo 13 screenplay, for which he received an Academy Award and Writer's Guild Best Screenplay nomination. He was also co-writer of Entrapment and was the co-creator of the television series China Beach, which won twelve Emmys. He was also founding editor of the award-winning Texas Monthly magazine, editor in chief of California magazine, and editor in chief of Newsweek

Table of Contents

Introduction	v
William Broyles, Jr.
Preface to the Script	xiv
Robert Zemeckis
The Shooting Script	1	(92)
Stills	93	(11)
Credits	104