Wilson, the Cast Away, Returns to Island Life
15 October 2010 | Monuriki, Fiji
Patrick Childress
Have you seen the movie "Cast Away" about the FedEx employee, named Chuck (AKA Tom Hanks), marooned for five years on a tropical island? Most of the island scenes, which were not computer fabricated or filmed in a set in California, were filmed on the small ruggedly beautiful island of Monuriki in western Fiji. One of the unexplained events in that movie is what ever became of Wilson when he, along with Chuck, sailed away from Monuriki on a rickety raft. One day Wilson abandoned the raft. Chuck, in his most desperate and earnest attempt, could not retrieve his rotund friend as he bobbed in the wave tops into the distance.