Editing Cast Away (section)

=== Filming ===
[[File:Monuriki 06.JPG|thumb|right|The island of Monuriki]]
The film was not shot chronologically. It began on January 18, 1999, before halting two months later. Filming resumed on April 3, 2000, and finished the following month. Hanks gained {{convert|50|lb|kg}} during pre-production, for the purpose of making his transformation more dramatic. After most of the film was shot, production was paused so he could lose the weight and grow his hair and beard to look like he had been living on the island for years. Another four-month production halt preceded the filming of the return scenes. During the year-long hiatus, Zemeckis used the same film crew to make another film, ''[[What Lies Beneath]]''.<ref name="nytimes.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/61089-CAST-AWAY|title=Cast Away|publisher=American Film Institute|access-date=March 26, 2021|archive-date=September 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210914122359/https://catalog.afi.com/Film/61089-CAST-AWAY|url-status=live}}</ref> While the film was in production, Hanks nearly died when he suffered an infected cut on his leg. He was rushed to a local hospital to undergo surgery and stayed there for three days. Filming of ''Cast Away'' was suspended for three weeks to allow Hanks to recover from the injury.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/tom-hanks-revealed-he-almost-died-while-filming-this-movie-we-had-to-shut-down-for-3-weeks.html/ | title=Hanks 'almost died' filming 'Cast Away' | first=Jack | last=Klompus | work=[[Digital Spy]] | date=May 17, 2009}}</ref> Filming lasted for sixteen months.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=108073&page=1 | title=Tom Hanks Talks 'Cast Away' | website=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] }}</ref>

''Cast Away'' was filmed on [[Monuriki]], one of the [[Mamanuca Islands]] in [[Fiji]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Miller|first1=Korina|last2=Jones|first2=Robyn|last3=Pinheiro|first3=Leonardo|title=Fiji|edition=Sixth|format=paperback|date=December 2003|publisher=[[Lonely Planet]]|isbn=1-74059-134-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/fiji00kori_0/page/54 54]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/fiji00kori_0/page/54}}</ref> It is in a subgroup of the Mamanuca [[archipelago]], which is sited off the coast of [[Viti Levu]], Fiji's largest island. The island [[Setjetting|became a tourist attraction]] after the film's release.  After Chuck's return, it is identified by Kelly as being "about {{convert|600|mi|km|disp=sqbr}} south of the [[Cook Islands]]," but there is no land between the southernmost Cook Islands of [[Mangaia]] and [[Antarctica]].

The film begins and ends in the same location, on the Arrington Ranch in the [[Texas Panhandle]] south of the city of [[Canadian, Texas]].<ref name="Cyclone">{{cite news | url=http://swco.ttu.edu/WestTexas/indexes/CycloneAugust%2007.pdf | title=Cast Away and the Texas Panhandle | publisher=West Texas Historical Association | work=The Cyclone | volume=XIV | issue=2 | date=August 2007 | access-date=January 2, 2015 | author=Carlson, Paul | pages=1–2 | archive-date=December 19, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151219023645/http://swco.ttu.edu/WestTexas/indexes/CycloneAugust%2007.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref>