Welcome to the Movie Rewrite of “ Cast Away “ This Rewrite is truly an Advanced Imagination exercise. It takes our brains and throws them on a treadmill.

Here we go. So we all remember Chuck (played by Tom Hanks ) was a (Type – A) Federal Express employee when it came to work, almost obsessed if you will. During the Christmas Holidays, Chuck heads to Malaysia in the middle of a bad storm for a business problem. His family was very displeased needless to say.

We all remember what happens next, the plane goes down in the middle of Pacific Ocean, and Chuck is the only one that survives thanks to an inflatable life-raft. From there he ends up on an island completely alone other than the “Volleyball “Wilson,“ his soon to be best friend.

Let’s relieve some of chuck’s pain right away. Now if we all remember Gilligan’s Island from 1964 and the crew that was lost at sea after a shipwreck. Being Chuck’s plane went down in 1995, that gave the Gilligan Crew 31 years to become experts on how to live off of uninhabited land. The shipwrecked crew from the 1960’s saw Chucks plane go down and witnessed the island he floated to in his life-raft.

They approached Chuck who ended up on an island right next to them and invited him and Wilson to join them on their island. Chuck happily accepted. So right here, that removes all those trials and tribulations and loneliness that Chuck had to endure. As months went by, they decide to kill some time learning to play volleyball with Wilson. Despite the fact of being stranded in the middle of the ocean, the friendships became peachy keen.

Now, if ever you were going to be stranded on an Island you would hope the year was 1995. As it happens, a gentleman by the name of Kevin Costner skillfully lived on the water itself in the movie Water-world. He also witnessed the plane going down and knew where to find people if any survived. So when Keven Costner and his big Water contraption approached the island, the Gilligan Crew and Chuck were ecstatic. The Water-man invited the whole crew on his Water Traveler and took them all back to shore.

For Chuck, only 6 months had passed, he didn’t expect much to have changed. But upon his arrival, he learns his wife ( Helen Hunt ) started a courtship with someone else. That someone else just so happened to be the “Mr. Big “ character from the cable show “Sex and the City” When she learned of her husband still being alive, she broke it off with “ Mr. Big “ immediately. As we all remember, Mr. Big always had a wondering eye and the Helen Hunt relationship was just one of his affairs. So Mr. Big heads back to NYC to reconcile things with his wife Carrie Bradshaw played by Sarah Jessica Parker

Now, back to Chuck ( the Tom Hanks character ), he and Helen Hunt were like peas and carrots once again. After Chuck shared his 6 months of what is like on the island with Wilson and the Gilligan Crew, his wife said; “ All of you should start a Volleyball team and compete professionally. That hit Chuck like a ton of bricks, he knew it was his calling. So him and his wife called Maverick and Goose from the movie “Top Gun“ to train this new team all the fundamentals of volleyball. We all remember what experts they were playing volleyball on the beach and all in 1986.

Needless to say all the ducks were aligned for great success. The Wilson Volleyball team went on to win the National Championship and The Olympics. At one of the Award Ceremonies, Chuck ( The Tom Hanks Character ) gave a speech that left people mesmerized. The first highlight from the speech was a reference about his time on the island. His quote was; “ I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide could bring “ referring to his time away from home on the island. The Second highlight was when he held the Wilson volleyball up and yelled out “ WIiiiiLSON.

The End. Movie Still would’ve been great.