I enjoyed Forrest Gump. I thought it was a pretty endearing film with many upsides… but as a whole I thought it was over praised. It winning the Oscar in 1995 over The Shawshank Redemption to me still stands and the single greatest blunder in Oscar history… but I digress.
Believe it or not, it seems that Paramount is looking at putting a Forrest Gump 2 project into motion. Our friends over at CinemaBlend give us this:
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.
I have my doubts about this… but let’s say for arguments sake that this is 100% true, and that the studio is indeed thinking about doing Forrest Gump 2. Personally, I think this would be a HORRIBLE idea. Let’s face it… as cute and endearing as the first film was… having Tom Hanks (if they even get Tom Hanks back for it) doing the old schtick of the slow guy “I’m forrest… forrest gump”, I think would be tired even before the opening credits finished.
As much as I liked the first Forrest Gump… Forrest Gump 2 is a horrible idea… and not even one that I think the studios would make much money on… which in the end is what I think will put the breaks on this project… if it’s even true in the first place. Your thoughts?
