Cast Away (2000) Storyboards (Copy) Including 77 storyboards Directed by Robert Zemeckis Written by William Broyles Jr. Cast Away is a 2000 American survival drama film directed and produced by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt, and Nick Searcy. Hanks plays a FedEx troubleshooter who is stranded on an uninhabited island after his plane crashes in the South Pacific, and the plot focuses on his desperate attempts to survive and return home. Initial filming took place from January to March 1999 before resuming in April 2000 and concluding that May. What is a Movie Storyboard? A storyboard is a graphic representation of how a movie unfolds, shot by shot. It consists of a number of squares with illustrations or images representing each shot, with notes about what happens in the scene and what is said in the script during that shot. Will be packaged and shipped with great care.