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Twenty years after the release of the film, the Oscar-winning actor carried the bloodied volleyball onto the field, as shown in a video posted by the Cleveland Guardians. But there’s another story, that – if true – makes Wilson’s involvement in the movie seem written in the stars.

Kaufman goes on to say that as the sun beat down on Wilson, he’d fall apart, which raises the question of what would become of his components. Again, Wilson is made up of synthetic leather, synthetic rubber and rubber glue — all of which are plastic — as well as a little bit of cotton and a bunch of twigs. The amount of cotton is negligible, and it’s also natural, so Kaufman says it would get eaten up by microorganisms without much difficulty. The twigs are also natural, but before getting eaten by organisms like shipworms — which are actually tiny clams that eat wood — they might provide shelter for fish, as Kaufman explains, “many fish use driftwood as a means of shelter, swimming under it to hide from predators.” 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. 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.”

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We provided Fox with 60 balls for the actual production of the movie, and maybe 100 more for promotional use. So all in, we gave them around 150 volleyballs, and we got unprecedented product placement. Talk about the greatest return on investment in the history of Wilson.” It was the end of his journey.” Unfortunately, it appears the final Wilson didn’t end up in a museum, memorabilia store, or in an auction. Instead, that particular volleyball found its way to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, or at best, floating around in the Pacific Ocean somewhere. The period which span from summer 1993 to the summer of 2003 included box office hits such as Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Saving Private Ryan, Apollo 13 … In that time Tom Hanks starred in 13 movies, which grosses 4.7 billion dollars worldwide. They received 59 Oscar nominations and won 16. Tom Hanks was nominated four times for best actor and won in 1994 for Philadelphia and in 1995 for Forrest Gump. Rice, Nicholas (April 16, 2022). "Tom Hanks Brings Out Cast Away Costar Wilson for First Pitch at Cleveland Guardians Game". people.com . Retrieved April 16, 2022.

Cast Away (2000) - IMDb, archived from the original on November 25, 2021 , retrieved November 18, 2021Natale, Richard (December 20, 2000). "Casting About". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 18, 2015 . Retrieved April 9, 2015. The film features Hanks as a FedEx systems analyst who washes up on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes. As he struggles to survive alone on the island, he begins to use a Wilson Sporting Goods volleyball as his confidant, drawing a smiley face into his own bloody handprint on the ball. 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.

Wallace consulted with Kuehne and Volleyball and Soccer Business Manager, Alan Davenport. It was a more vague request than Wilson usually received, but with the reassurance only Tom Hanks could provide, the team agreed to send Fox what it had asked for… which was actually soccer balls. Nate Smith (January 7, 2001). " Cast Away proves great films still exist". Daily Gazette. Archived from the original on June 8, 2011 . Retrieved November 26, 2008.The reality show debuted on May 31, 2000, about seven months before Cast Away was released. In similar fashion, a group of people are stranded in an exotic location and must compete against each other, and the show became an immediate hit for CBS. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Hanks said he was “spooked by the show’s like-minded theme” but he knew “we didn’t have a trivial film. Good or bad, we always had something that was much more substantial than what is essentially a game show that is a television phenomenon.” 9. Cast Away led to the creation of Lost. When the Matt Damon film The Martian came out, critics immediately compared it to Cast Away and wrote “ The Martian is Cast Away in space,” especially because both films featured men marooned, alone, and trying to survive, and both movies were distributed by Fox. The difference is Matt Damon’s Mark Watney had the ability to communicate with people. In a USA Today profile, Damon disagreed with the comparisons. “It’s not Cast Away in the sense that it’s actually a guy who is behaving with the expectation that people are watching him. He’s on video all the time on these GoPros. Nobody’s seeing the video feed live, but he’s behaving as if someday someone might.” 13. Cast Away was depicted in an unauthorized parody film.