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Have you heard they are working on putting out a Forrest Gump sequel?  It’s an awful idea if you ask me.  It has been 13 years, it was a classic, leave it be.  Back in 2001 Paramount hired Eric Roth who wrote the first one and they are in talk trying to get Tom Hanks and Gary Sinise to return.  Hopefully they won’t.  

An absolutely reliable, unfortunately anonymous source, contacted me tonight with the latest scoop on Forrest’s impending return. It seems that old 2001 Eric Roth screenplay is being dragged out of development hell for another look by Gump producers Steve Tisch and Wendy Finerman. Remember that the first Forrest Gump movie was based on a novel by Winston Groom. Roth’s sequel script was based on Groom’s followup novel, “Gump & Co”. “Gump & Co” takes place several years after “Forrest Gump” and finds Forrest’s shrimping business failed and Jenny dead, leaving Forrest a single unemployed father. As you’d expect, Gump still stumbles through more important historical events. In this case it’s a cavalcade of history from the 80s and 90s. He even meets Tom Hanks.

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