After "Apollo 13", Broyles began work on "Cast Away", an original screenplay about a FedEx engineer stranded on a deserted island. Released in 2000, the film was produced by Tom Hanks, directed by Robert Zemeckis, and stars Hanks as the resilient Chuck Noland. "Apollo 13" and "Cast Away" secured Broyles's place as an A-list Hollywood screenwriter, and he has writing credits on several other motion pictures, including "Entrapment" (1999), "Planet of the Apes" (2001), "Unfaithful" (2002), "The Polar Express" (2004), "Jarhead" (2005), and "Flags of Our Fathers" (2006). Broyles continues to write, and he has recently begun his next feature film, "Lost Shadows".