Tom Hanks explains how sci-fi film Finch is different from Cast Away

Tom Hanks is one of the most beloved stars in the world and is a phenomenal actor. The actor is getting ready for the release of Finch, a sci-fi drama set in a post-apocalyptic world, where he is accompanied by just a robot and a dog. 

Now the actor has talked about how Finch is different from Cast Away, the hit survival drama released in 2000, when asked if both the movies have a spiritual connection in a roundtable attended by Collider. 

The actor said that he personally does not find any connection between the two movies. 

According to him, Cast Away is the story of a man where the unfortunate situation he finds himself is the “the best thing that ever happened to this man”.

While this is the case, he thinks nothing great ever happened to Finch. The actor says that what Finch is looking for in creating the robot to take care of his dog is “a different course in the seminary of solitude versus loneliness and survival versus flourishing.”

Cast Away, directed by Robert Zemeckis, follows a FedEx employee who is stranded on an uninhabited island after a plane crash. 

He only has a volleyball to keep him company as he fights to stay alive on the island and later find a way back to his girlfriend back home.

Finch, directed by Miguel Sapochnik, follows the titular character, a terminally ill robotics engineer, who is also the last survivor on the planet after an apocalyptic event. 

He embarks on a journey through the outside world with his dog and a robot he built to take care of the dog once he is dead. 

Finch, which will be the actor’s second movie to release exclusively on Apple TV+, is set to release on November 5.

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