“Hell, the studio bought the sequel and paid me a ton of dough even before it came out, and they then owned it, as they still do, and can make it a movie anytime they damn well please.”įor more film and TV coverage, please visit the Film & TV section. If Robert Zemeckis and Paramount Pictures ever decide to move forward with a Forrest Gump sequel, Winston Groom has given his (reluctant) blessing: Now time has obviously passed, but maybe some things should just be one thing and left as they are.” And we sat down, Tom and Bob and I, looked at each other and said, we don’t think this is relevant anymore. But I turned in the script the night before 9/11. The book received mixed reviews and sold tens of. “I to start the movie literally two minutes after the end of the last one, with him on the bus bench waiting for his son to get home from school. Forrest 2 Winston Groom is welcoming in our digital library an online access to it is set as public correspondingly you can download it instantly. was already a noted journalist and Pulitzer-nominated author when his novel Forrest Gump was published in 1986. Roth explained to /Film how said conversation went down: However, following the events that transpired the following morning, the creative team behind the film had a change of heart. He completed and submitted the script on Sept. These include events like the launch of New Coke, the Black Monday stock market crash and the Gulf War.Įric Roth, who wrote the original film, was tasked with writing the sequel adaptation. It is structured similarly to the original, with Forrest inserted into many historical United States events of the 1980s and 90s. Following the film’s success, Groom released a sequel to his book titled Gump & Co.

Winston Groom continues to delight us with Gumps hilarious and. Forrest Gump was based on a 1984 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. has gone bust and Forrest is flat broke, sweeping floors in a.

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