With the creation of Cast Away, the team that made Forest Gump an award winning blockbuster wanted to tell a specific story, and they wanted to do it in a rather unconventional way.
Warning: spoilers for Cast Away are in play.
Almost 20 years ago, director Robert Zemeckis and actor Tom Hanks took a pretty big gamble.
If you’re not familiar with the film, you might want to turn away from this article.