Miscellaneous Movie Musings

innerSpaceman · 05-23-2006, 03:15 PM

Well, I just checked the running commentary for Cast Away, and no one paid anyone else in connection with FedEx being chosen as the real delivery company. The filmmakers wanted a real company, they asked FedEx, and FedEx said 'yes.'

(heheh, in discussing why he wanted a real company, Zemeckis also uses the laughably bad example of TransGlobal Airlines. Great minds think alike.)

And yes, the DaVinci Code used only the exterior of the real Westminster Abbey. Apparently, the Abbey didn't mean Ron Howard's price for featuring the inside.

05-23-2006, 03:15 PM	#11
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Well, I just checked the running commentary for Cast Away, and no one paid anyone else in connection with FedEx being chosen as the real delivery company. The filmmakers wanted a real company, they asked FedEx, and FedEx said 'yes.' (heheh, in discussing why he wanted a real company, Zemeckis also uses the laughably bad example of TransGlobal Airlines. Great minds think alike.) And yes, the DaVinci Code used only the exterior of the real Westminster Abbey. Apparently, the Abbey didn't mean Ron Howard's price for featuring the inside.
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