By now, it is clear that there was room on the earth for each “Forged Away” and “Survivor.” Tom Hanks earned a well-deserved Oscar nomination for his efficiency, and “Forged Away” was the 12 months’s third highest-grossing movie worldwide. In the meantime, “Survivor” continues to chug proper alongside, with Jeff Probst and his khaki shorts coming into their forty fourth season on the air in March. It wasn’t lengthy after his preliminary considerations that Hanks managed to quell his worries, as he informed Leisure Weekly the 12 months “Forged Away” was launched:

“I at all times felt we did not have a trivial movie. Good or unhealthy, we at all times had one thing that was far more substantial than what is basically a recreation present that may be a tv phenomenon.”

The movie’s author, William Broyles, additionally famous that it wasn’t the primary time a Tom Hanks film was launched across the similar time as different equally themed movies, noting in that very same interview, “Keep in mind, ‘Massive’ was just like the fourth of these motion pictures about switching our bodies, and which one do you keep in mind?”

Clearly, the “Forged Away” comparisons to each “Survivor” and “Gilligan’s Island” had been at all times going to be there. There was no solution to keep away from it, even when nobody might have predicted how massively standard “Survivor” would grow to be. After all, there’s one factor that Probst and “Survivor” did not have that proved to be Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis’s secret weapon: the world’s most beloved volleyball. And there is not any likelihood in hell the movie-going viewers would ever dare vote Wilson off the island.