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Guide
Every slate on Cast Away lives in exactly one of two modes — Timeless or Current. Legacy is what happens when the rules of Current stop applying to a slate that was already published.
Our posture
Cast Away is a creative tribute to the craft of filmmaking. Every slate honors the actors, directors, cinematographers, editors, sound designers, VFX artists, and entire crews whose work brought the original to life. Slates here are imagination, never criticism — what could be, never what should have been.
Your lens across the entire site
The Timeless / All / Currenttoggle in the navigation bar isn't just a filter for one page — it's a global lens that shapes your entire Cast Away experience.
When you select a mode, every page you visit adapts:
All is the default — it shows everything, both Timeless and Current slates together. Think of it as the unfiltered experience.
How it persists
Your choice sticks until you actively change it. Close the tab, come back tomorrow, navigate to any page — the mode you chose stays locked in. It survives refreshes, browser restarts, and every navigation in between.
Cast across eras
Timeless mode is the casting playground without limits. Pull from any decade in cinema history — living actors, legendary names from the past, breakout stars in their prime years from any era. Cast a younger actor in an older role, or an older actor in a younger one. Pair Marlon Brando in his 1972 prime with a 2025 newcomer. Imagine Cary Grant and Margot Robbie in the same ensemble. There are no rules about who lived when — only the rule that the cast should cohere as a creative whole.
Timeless slates are reimaginings, not verdicts. They're about asking what else could be possibleacross the full span of cinema's history, with reverence for the work that made every actor's prime years what they were.
Best for
Living actors, age-appropriate today
Current mode is the practical fantasy: who would star if a studio greenlit a fresh adaptation today? Two rules:
A Current slate is the cast you'd see on a 2026 production slate — practical, present-tense, and deliverable. Current slates explore what a fresh adaptation could look like, with the same respect for the original film's actors, directors, and creative team that any thoughtful new production demands.
Best for
⚠️ Breaking the rules?
If you publish a Current slate that violates the rules — say you cast a 70-year-old as a 5-year-old — the community can vote to recommend it be recategorized as Timeless. When 25 users agree, the slate automatically moves to Timeless, its color scope flips to Deep Burgundy, and a "community" marker appears next to the mode badge.
When Current becomes Timeless
Legacy is the rarest status on Cast Away and the most bittersweet: it marks a slate that was originally published as Current, but became Timeless when one of its cast members passed away.
When an actor dies, every Current slate that cast them automatically gets the Legacy ribbon and is reclassified to Timeless — because the Current rule (living actors only) is no longer satisfied. The original author keeps credit, the original cast stays intact, and the vote history is preserved.
It's how Cast Away gracefully handles the passage of time without deleting history or demanding edits from users whose favorite slates can't be unpicked.
How you'll see it
Legacy slates carry a ✦ Legacy badge next to the Timeless mode pill. They appear in Timeless sorting, but the badge tells the story of how they got there.
One slate per mode per film (free tier)
On the free Cinephile tier, you can publish one Timeless slate and one Current slate per film. If you want to submit a new one, the old slate gets destructively replaced — no carryover, no vote laundering. Upgrading to Auteur or Director lifts this limit so you can publish multiple versions.
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