'Forrest Gump' Sequel Was Undone by 9/11?

So some good came of 9/11 then.

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being a huge fan of forrest gump (my all-time favorite film), i always thought a sequel could actually work. the biggest reason being i would love to see/ listen to more of forrest's life than i already know. sure, i think it would be difficult --perhaps, near impossible-- to make a sequel that would maintain the fun, hilarious & magical moments of the original, but i'd love to see more of forrest's life regardless.

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The book Gump and Co. was very good, but it was mostly a mockery of the hoopla that came about from the movie, it was very meta, even going so far as to have the books exist in a world where the movie also existed. So I doubt the movie sequel would have been anything like the book, which in my opinion makes a sequel sorta pointless.

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"Hear, hear", not "Here, here".

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Now I never knew there would be a sequel, but surely if there was it'd just be Forrest opening up a chain of shrimp restaurants & making a packet

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Forrest Gump is an absolute classic. I know...I know...everything's subjective, but part of the reason some people don't like it, is simply because people make fun of the lead character; you make fun of a character long enough (and, by the way, just because it's an easy character to make fun of) then you start to think of the movie in a negative light. I, however, still pop in the DVD from time to time and am reminded at how brilliant the movie is.

As for a sequel: bad, bad, bad idea. Oh, in truth I think it would wonderful for Forrest to pass through another serious of adventures from where the movie left off to the present day, but Tom Hanks is too old for the part now (IMHO) and it wouldn't be the same surprise/magic/fun that the first was.

Robert Zemekis' (sp?) film making was top notch with Forrest Gump, pushing visual/special effects in a movie that didn't feel like it had ANY special effects (similar to Cast Away). But a sequel wouldn't work...it just doesn't feel like it would (have) work(ed).

Jim

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Most annoying thing about the horrid sentimental film that is Forrest Gump? That blasted quote:

"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

Except that you do... because there's that bit of paper inside the chocolate box with pictures of all the chocolates, stating exactly which is which so that you can avoid the horrible Coconut ones...

Forrest was even more stupid than originally intended obviously....

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What everyone seems to be forgetting is that the sequal was planned as they were writing the original. It was supposed to pick up exactly where the first one leaves off, be released 10-20 years after the first movie and chronicle the life of Gump's kid, played by Tom Hanks' real-life son. It was supposed to show them losing all their money in apple's stock and show Forrest Jr. interacting with major political and pop-cultural events that occurred from where the last one left off to modern day.

I personally always thought that it would be a great series, and we should have a gump movie every 25-30 years. As a way to sum up all of the major events that have occurred between the movies in a well written and entertaining way using this family and their lives as the vessels to carry the story. Making them and their relationships just as important as background history.

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That is the best movie evr. We all hate 9/11 even more now.

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There’s something like a can’t fail computer program here that goes like this: Huck Finn, Forrest Gump, Forrest Gump, Huck Finn, etc. . . Knowing literature and Forrest Gump -- you know the prequel and the sequel are done -- all that’s left is to pen the end on the trilogy (part three if you‘re practicing math). Anybody who knows how to use a pen also knows part two was a vast success and part three is not only due, its success is assured.

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