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Movies filmed in Fiji
Updated: Friday, April 25, 2008
Fiji has featured prominently in award-winning movies like Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, sequel to Anaconda stars Jonny Mesner, Morris Chestnut, Salli Richardson, KaDee Strickland and Eugene Byrd.
There’s also the 20th Century Fox and Dreamworks SKG mega blockbuster film Cast Away starring two-times Oscar winner Tom Hanks and directed by Bob Zemeckis who also chose Fiji as the “heaven sequence” for the Jodi Foster sci-fi blockbuster Contact.
Hollywood's fascination with Fiji stems back for more than 50 years with the following original screenings filmed on Fiji shores:
- Mr Robinson Crusoe or Tropical Knight - 1932
Director: A Edward Sutherland
Starring: Douglas Fairbanks Snr, Maria Alba, William Farnum
Locations: FIJI, SAMOA & TAHITI
- Blue Lagoon - 1949
Director/Producer: Frank Launder
Starring: Jean Simmons
Distributor: Columbia
Location: Sawa-i-lau, Yasawas
- His Majesty O’Keefe - 1953
Producer: Harold Hecht
Director: Byron Haskin
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice
Distributor: Warner Bros
Location: Deuba, Pacific Harbour, Grand Pacific Hotel and Cumming Street, Suva
- The Dove - 1974
Producer: Gregory Peck
Director: Charles Jarrott
Starring: Joseph Bottoms, Deborah Raffin & John McLiam
Distributor: Paramount
Locations: Lami , Suva
- The Blue Lagoon -1979
Director/Producer: Randal Kleiser
DOP: Nestor Almendros
Starring: Brooke Shields, Leo McKern, Christopher Atkins & William Daniels Distributor: Columbia
Location: Nanuya Levu, Yasawa
- Savage Islands -1983
Producers: Lloyd Phillips & Rob Whitehouse
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax
Starring: Tommy Lee Jones, Michael O'Keefe, Max Phillips & Jenny Seagrove Distributor: Paramount
Location: Pacific Harbour
- Return to the Blue Lagoon -1992
Producers: Randal Kleiser & William A Graham
Director: William A Graham
Starring: Milla Jovavich & Brian Krause
Distributor: Columbia
Location: Taveuni
- Flynn or My Forgotten Man -1993
Producers: Peter Boyle, Malcolm Olivestone
Director: Frank Howson
Starring: Guy Pearce, Claudia karvan, Stephen Berkoff, Wendy Matthews
Distributor: Boulevarde Films
Locations: Australia & Fiji
- Cast Away - 2000
Producers: Steve Starkey, Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis & Jack Rapke
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks, Helen Hunt & Nick Searcy
Distributors: Dreamworks/20th Century Fox
Locations: Monu-riki Island, Manamucas
- Coral Reef Adventure - 2002
Distributors: MacGillivray Freeman
Locations: Australia, Fiji & Tahiti
- Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid - 2004
Producer: Verna Harrah, Jake Rose
Director: Dwight Little
Starring: Johnny Mesner, Morris Chestnut, Eugene Byrd, Salli Richardson, Kadee Strickland
Distributor: COLUMBIA/SCREEN GEMS
Locations: Pacific Harbour