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Despite the handful of attempts to greenlight a Forrest Gump sequel, the film’s lead actor, Tom Hanks, never wanted to 1994 classic to have a follow-up.
The two-time Academy Award winner spoke to the New York Times in a new piece alongside actress Robin Wright (who played Jenny Curran) in Forrest Gump to revisit the film 30 years later. But although Hanks, 68, has been involved with animated film franchise Toy Story, the actor expressed relief that there wasn’t a continuation of Forrest Gump.
“It is this extraordinary amalgam that stands completely on its own and never has to be repeated,” Hanks told the publication. “And thank God we never bothered trying to make another one. Why put a hat on a hat?”
Later in the interview, Hanks shared that he still gets fan appreciation for the Robert Zemeckis-directed movie, which earned Hanks an Oscar in 1995 for Best Actor.
“I still get letters all the time saying, every year the family gets together, we do what we did back in 1995, when it first came out on home video. We all watch it, from beginning to end,” Hanks told NYT. “Right now, someone is watching that movie from beginning to end somewhere in the world. And it’s landing with that same sense of comfort and familiarity.”
Forrest Gump was adapted from the 1986 Winston Groom novel of the same name, and in 1995 a second book, titled Gump & Co. was published. The film’s original screenwriter, Eric Roth, submitted a sequel script shortly before the September 11th attacks, which he revealed to /Film in 2008.
But I turned in the script the night before 9/11. And we sat down, Tom [Hanks] and Bob [Zemeckis] and I, looked at each other and said, we don’t think this is relevant anymore,” Roth said at the time. “The world had changed. Now time has obviously passed, but maybe some things should just be one thing and left as they are.”
Hanks felt the same way years later, as he told the Happy Sad Confused podcast in 2022 (around the 46-minute mark below) that a Forrest Gump sequel discussion “lasted all of 40 minutes.”
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Despite the handful of attempts to greenlight a Forrest Gump sequel, the film’s lead actor, Tom Hanks, never wanted to 1994 classic to have a follow-up.
The two-time Academy Award winner spoke to the New York Times in a new piece alongside actress Robin Wright (who played Jenny Curran) in Forrest Gump to revisit the film 30 years later. But although Hanks, 68, has been involved with animated film franchise Toy Story, the actor expressed relief that there wasn’t a continuation of Forrest Gump.
“It is this extraordinary amalgam that stands completely on its own and never has to be repeated,” Hanks told the publication. “And thank God we never bothered trying to make another one. Why put a hat on a hat?”
Later in the interview, Hanks shared that he still gets fan appreciation for the Robert Zemeckis-directed movie, which earned Hanks an Oscar in 1995 for Best Actor.
“I still get letters all the time saying, every year the family gets together, we do what we did back in 1995, when it first came out on home video. We all watch it, from beginning to end,” Hanks told NYT. “Right now, someone is watching that movie from beginning to end somewhere in the world. And it’s landing with that same sense of comfort and familiarity.”
Forrest Gump was adapted from the 1986 Winston Groom novel of the same name, and in 1995 a second book, titled Gump & Co. was published. The film’s original screenwriter, Eric Roth, submitted a sequel script shortly before the September 11th attacks, which he revealed to /Film in 2008.
But I turned in the script the night before 9/11. And we sat down, Tom [Hanks] and Bob [Zemeckis] and I, looked at each other and said, we don’t think this is relevant anymore,” Roth said at the time. “The world had changed. Now time has obviously passed, but maybe some things should just be one thing and left as they are.”
Hanks felt the same way years later, as he told the Happy Sad Confused podcast in 2022 (around the 46-minute mark below) that a Forrest Gump sequel discussion “lasted all of 40 minutes.”
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