'Cast Away' joins fray
Zemeckis goes through a 'water phase'
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Tom Hanks talks to Jonathan Schaech and Christina Applegate at the 'Cast Away' party. |
"A remarkable film that everyone at the studio can be proud of," said the News Corp. chairman at Thursday's Village Theater preem of "Cast Away."
When talking about the Murdoch-pleasing film, star Tom Hanks said the filmmakers were "always trying to play around with the standard cinematic narrative. By and large, so many people are so used to having everything explained for them. We didn't want to do that."
For his part, director Bob Zemeckis said between "Cast Away" and "What Lies Beneath" he was "going through my water phase." And as far as the oft-spoken, never-work-on-water axiom: "They're right. You should never film on water. I wasn't listening to them."
As for the difference between his two films, Zemeckis said: "This is trying to do everything real and honest. 'What Lies Beneath' is all about style and being kind of operatic."
Among those on hand at the Village and the W Hotel after-party were Fox's Lachlan Murdoch, Peter Chernin, Tom Rothman, Jim Gianopulos, Elizabeth Gabler and Bob Harper; DreamWorks' Laurie MacDonald, Walter Parkes and Terry Press; stars Helen Hunt and Nick Searcy; plus guests Halle Berry, Thora Birch, Chevy Chase, Elizabeth Daley, Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen, Barbara Davis, Colin Farrell, Marvin and Emile Gladstone, Martin Landau, David E. Kelley and Michelle Pfeiffer, Roseanne, Tim Roth, Martin Short, Patrick Swayze and Ron Yerxa.
