![]() ![]() The film's screenwriter actually stranded himself on an island for research. While Hanks recovered from the infection, production had to be shut down for three weeks. "I went to the doctor who took one look and said, 'I have to put you in the hospital because we have to get this infection out of you before it poisons your blood and you die.'" I didn't know it, I just thought I had a sore," he continued. "I got an infection from a cut and it was eating its way through my leg. ![]() I was there for three days with something that, believe it or not, almost killed me," Hanks told the BBC in 2009. Hanks had a close brush with death when a cut to his leg saw him rushed to the hospital during production in Fiji. "I just thought, 'What happens if that goes down?'"ĭirector Robert Zemeckis and screenplay writer Bill Broyles helped form the rest of the movie. Speaking during The Hollywood Reporter's roundtable, the 65-year-old said he had the idea for the film when he was "reading an article about FedEx, and I realised that 747s filled with packages fly across the Pacific three times a day." You never know when inspiration can hit and for Tom Hanks it was when he was reading a news article about the US transport company. The idea for the film came from a news article about FedEx. He came up with the idea of a volleyball and he named it Wilson in honour of my beautiful bride." ![]() "Bill Broyles and I started talking about it and we didn’t shoot it until six years later. ![]()
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