It could have been,” Tom said. “[ Cast Away] was written by Bill Broyles and that movie took about six years to figure out. Bill Broyles and I started talking about it and we didn’t shoot it until six years later. He came up with the idea of a volleyball and he named it Wilson in honor of my beautiful bride.” 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. Weekend Box Office Results for December 22-25, 2000". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015 . Retrieved April 9, 2015. 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. Why no matches in the FedEx box?: FedEx parody commercial makes deliberate decision not to help provide fire to its own castaway". CNN. January 27, 2003. Archived from the original on July 28, 2012 . Retrieved March 4, 2012.

a b c "Cast Away". Chicago. August 2007. Archived from the original on October 29, 2012 . Retrieved December 27, 2008. IASIP - Rum Ham - The whole Story, archived from the original on December 11, 2021 , retrieved March 22, 2021 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.” The short article actually played things relatively straight until the last line: “the thoughtful and overworked staff at the Gold Coast hospital have brought Hanks in a Wilson volleyball to keep him company for the duration of his stay.”The second episode of the seventh season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, "The Gang Goes to the Jersey Shore" refers to a Cast Away scene. When Frank loses his "rum ham" while floating on a raft in the Atlantic Ocean, his anguish resembles that of Tom Hanks's character losing a volleyball he named "Wilson." [43] That's whenwe really started wondering, ‘Why do they need that? What could they be doing with one-sided balls?'” Wallace recalls.

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. 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) Tom Hanks joins reunited Phish on stage". EW.com. Archived from the original on November 25, 2020 . Retrieved September 23, 2021. Cast Away' Delivers Goods For Fedex". Chicago Tribune. 2001. Archived from the original on February 24, 2014 . Retrieved October 23, 2014. 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.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. According to The Mirror,their time on the island was not a happy one, as while there, the young woman became pregnant but both her child and her partner died. Tom Hanks,” says Wallace with a smile. “He told me it was Tom Hanks, and I think that’s what ultimately sealed the deal. Tom Hanks movies are always good.”

A look at some of the biggest hits in film and TV product placement". The Hollywood Reporter. April 28, 2005. Archived from the original on September 3, 2006 . Retrieved November 25, 2007. We truly didn’t have a clue what the ball’s involvement would be walking into that theatre,” Davenport recalls. “I remember walking out of the screening thinking ‘ holy [expletive]!'’ We knew we (as a company) had to do something.” Watch: Tom Hanks throws first pitch at Guardians home opener". Fox 8 Cleveland WJW. April 15, 2022 . Retrieved April 16, 2022. Other people who experienced life as castaways in various ways and may have provided some inspiration for the film, include Tom Neale, a New Zealand bushcraft and survival enthusiast who spent much of his life in the Cook Islands, and a total of 16 years – in three sessions – living alone on the island of Anchorage in the Suwarrow atoll, which was the basis of his popular autobiography An Island To Oneself; Leendert Hasenbosch who was an employee of the Dutch East India Company marooned on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean as a punishment for sodomy and Narcisse Pelletier, born in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie in the Vendée who was a French sailor. Pelletier was abandoned in 1858 at the age of 14 on the Cape York Peninsula, in Australia, during the dry season.Carlson, Paul (August 2007). "Cast Away and the Texas Panhandle" (PDF). The Cyclone. Vol.XIV, no.2. West Texas Historical Association. pp.1–2. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 19, 2015 . Retrieved January 2, 2015. I keep saying it, but this is unbelievable,” said Considine, accepting the award. “All the attention we are receiving is incredible – so many phone calls from retailers, consumers, family and friends who have seen the movie and want to show their support. We appreciate the opportunity 20th Century Fox has given us and we’re honored to be receiving the first award for Best Inanimate Object.” Cast Away (2000) - IMDb, archived from the original on November 25, 2021 , retrieved November 18, 2021