A sequel to Cast Away could put Chuck Noland in a very different life-or-death situation, playing into the endless possibilities presented by the survival genre.

Film fans are only just realising there's a heartbreaking second meaning to the title of the critically acclaimed movie Cast Away, starring Tom Hanks.

Tom Hanks did not film Cast Away “600 miles south of the Cook Islands,” as Helen Hunt says in the movie. The survival drama yanks viewers onto a deserted island with FedEx systems analyst ...

When FedEx employee Chuck Noland’s plane crashes, he ends up stranded on a deserted tropical island for four years, with an inanimate volleyball named Wilson as his only friend. Deemed an ...

And so, after all the advance jungle drums, Cast Away is not about how Tom Hanks lost weight to play Chuck Noland, a FedEx employee marooned for four years on a South Sea island when his delivery ...

What is ‘Cast Away’ about? The film follows Chuck Noland (Hanks), a FedEx systems analyst executive who is obsessed with time and punctuality. Spending the majority of his time in the air, and ...

The 2000 survival film starts Tom Hanks who plays FedEx executive Chuck Noland Credit: Alamy He said: “I realized that 747s filled with packages fly across the Pacific three times a day.

The film begins in a rush. Chuck Noland (Hanks) is a FedEx systems engineer, jetting off at a moments notice to far-flung corners of the globe to fix problems.