DISQUS

september11th · 1 year ago

LOL SORRY GUYZ

MickJ · 1 year ago

That's a real shame. I love Gump despite its flaws, and this could have been interesting. I'm not sure innocence is ever irrelevant. Making a sequel could have been a nice distraction, or maybe helped with all the cynicism flying around since 9/11 (man, seems so long ago).

Michael Panzer · 1 year ago

worst idea ever

Joshi · 1 year ago

I believe certain films should never have a sequel (although Studio Execs hardly ever listen to me anymore) and Forest Gump is one of them.

Admittedly, I once thought a sequel to Toy Story would be a bad idea and I was wrong on that one.

DAN HARDMAN · 1 year ago

The first time I saw the Forrest Gump trailer...I got goose bumps! It was right before Beverely Hills Cop 3. BHC3 SUCKED!!! There is a need for a sequels, but only if they are good!!!!

Zinc · 1 year ago

I'll admit I lol'd.

DrChicago · 1 year ago

I loved Forest Gump, it was a child hood favorite of mine. I am so glad they didn't make this, it probably would have been good with Zemeckis but he isn't too good when it comes to sequels- I do like Back to The Future II & III but they really just cant touch the first one and Jewel of The Nile wasn't any good. Also can't wait to see Benjamin, its going to blow Gump out of the water!

TheGreenMalice · 1 year ago

This would be a good Cash Cow.

Tommy_Tricker_ · 1 year ago

Considering the nature of Forest Gump and the title of this article I imagined a CGI GUmp superimposed on one of the two towers as the planes hit.

mortgage · 1 year ago

Another gump? come on

Matt · 1 year ago

Ironic how the conservative political pinnacle of 9/11 de-railed what was essentially the conservative pinnacle on celluloid.

egyptnation · 1 year ago

i totally agree that it's been too long for a sequel to be made. let the movie r.i.p.

jason B · 1 year ago

my little cousin leaves for afganistan in january, yer 9/11 jokes ain't funny at all. and the title of this article is a little 'tabloid-esque' as well, but i know peter isn't as classless as you all...so anyways this is a film i'd love to see if done right. i love the character deeply, but i still got the bad taste of Crystal Skull on my mind, so maybe it shouldnt happen.

zegna · 1 year ago

That last paragraph makes it sound terrible..

Nicholas Boyd · 1 year ago

That last paragraph makes it sound terrible.

Mandrew · 1 year ago

"I love Gump despite its flaws..."

Why does everyone on the internet find it necessary to be such a douche all the time? It's like posting on a porn site complaining about scene transitions and camera angles. Forrest Gump was a phenomenal movie, period. Is it impossible for someone on the internet to say something good without saying something bad? It's nothing personal, you just sound like a pretentious prick. I'm sure you're not, so stop acting like one.

The_Last_Unicor · 1 year ago

How old would the character of Gump even be if and when he plays Pro Football for the Saints or fights in Operation Desert Storm? What about his child too? Wouldn't that put his son some where near his 20's or 30's even? Though, on second though Haley Joel Osment needs work.

Sincerely,
Haley Joel Osment

spikeshinizle · 1 year ago

I guess I'm in the minority in thinking that this could work assuming many of the same cast and crew returned. Hanks has aged quite a bit, but I found the first Gump movie to be quite inspiring (despite the cheese everyone talks about) and it might be cool to see this character living in a more modern world and trying to find his place as an older man. Just a thought.
I'd also love Zemeckis to do this purely for the fact that I think his motion capture movies suck so hard, yes, even Beowulf.

Rhys · 1 year ago

a sequel would be awesome but the fact that they're willing to leave the legacy of forest gump behind is respectable.

larryhammer · 1 year ago

911 didn't ruin middle class families, health care or cause mortgages, and foreclosures. That's dramatically oversimplifying it. And a more correct dramatic simplification would be 'retards did it.' Stop feeling sorry for yourself, makearealmovie, forcing victimhood on yourself doesn't lead to anything productive, it leads to retarded blog comments- like yours, like mine.

But since retards did do it, maybe it's for the best that this movie isn't being made.

Kip_Mooney · 1 year ago

I've always wondered what become of developments for the sequel. Now I know. And after hearing all that, I'm OK with no Gump sequel.

zegna · 1 year ago

Wow, I would have loved to have seen that sequel!!

SUNand3Stars · 1 year ago

I woulda loved a sequel...Forrest Gump was my dude...haha...One of those "what if" moments in life...its cool tho, Forrest Gump is a movie I can watch over and over and never get tired of it, but a sequel woulda been interesting...

OnLate · 1 year ago

There was planes to make a sequel, info @ holysequels.com

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Oi Vey · 1 year ago

I don't know. Forrest Gump is a weird movie for me. I liked it as a kid, and I still like it now. But I wouldn't put it in my all time Top Ten movies of all time. It didn't influence me, nor is it nostalgic for me.

Actually, I think Pulp Fiction was more nostalgic for me.

andrewritt · 1 year ago

it seems like its not a bad thing they're not making a sequel

mark · 1 year ago

Hey Pepe, I heard you Pee with your shorts all the way down. Why you do that?

dingdong · 1 year ago

but those planes flew into the WTC D:

douglaschaplin · 1 year ago

I actually read this book when I was in 4th grade. We had to pick a book and read it throughout the year. I really enjoyed the book and the scenes where he invents New Coke and meets Tom Hanks were the best.

Woah wait a second, It couldn't have been that great if a 4th grader could have easily read it. Eh, it was entertaining and a great continuation of the legend of Gump.

Mike G · 1 year ago

Gad, the only thing worse than reliving the last 20 years would be doing so with Forrest Gump. Though I must admit the idea of him popping up in the middle of United 93 has a certain amusement.

Aqualeo · 1 year ago

This movie needs to happen. Gump was great and this will be too.

sandersce45 · 1 year ago

The book sounds really interesting. There is so much more that could be added since then as well. It would be a great film.

jimbob51 · 1 year ago

In times like these the simple story of a simple man is as valid as it seems the Inauguration Speech of FDR is at this time - would love to see it come into being

EVGNick · 1 year ago

I would have loved to see this film made.
Forrest Gump is one of my favorite flicks. I didn't grow up during any of the the big pop culture events brought up in the movie, but the sequel (the book) had plenty of moments I remember in my youth, and would have made a great experience told through the eyes of Gump.

Distortion · 1 year ago

Dude, he said he loved the movie. Every movie has one or two things wrong with it. You're the one who comes off looking like a pretentious prick here -- you just freaked out over three little words. On the internet.

Free Apple iPhone · 1 year ago

Huh, I didn't even know they were considering a sequel. Loved the first, probably would have enjoyed the second.

Garth · 1 year ago

As a film buff I'm still waiting for a sequel to "The Godfather." I have no idea why they never made one.

WarrenMoney · 1 year ago

The original book was a great read. Never even set eyes on the sequel. Might have to track it down.

The film is a classic, they should leave it alone. It was sad, nostalgic and poignant, something that rarely strikes twice.

Paul Atreides · 1 year ago

I wonder when we'll realize that 9/11 was just one successful attack on us by the enemy in a war that has been going on ever since we took Israel's side and put bases in saudi arabia. Instead we act surprised, just like we did after Pearl Harbor even though we were interfering with Japan's oil reception while they were in the middle of a war.
We act like losing 3000 people is somehow life altering and changes EVERYTHING. Yet, other countries have lost far more people than that, and we give it less attention than we do what Britney Spears is doing on any given saturday night.

ad gadgdgfds · 1 year ago

i would've loved to see a sequel to forrest gump, but i understand how 9/11 changed the overall mood of the time. i would say that now wouldn't be a bad time to make a sequel, but tom hanks is way too old to be playing gump.

marz · 1 year ago

i gota admit,seeing forest meet tom hanks woulda been kinda funny.i skimed the book at the book store and ,well...seems like they changed some things for the movie.like the way he talked.he actualy cursed in the book and seemed like he had a little more wits about him.it is a lil to late to make a sequal but it would have been nice.hell..
.hailey joel osment who played his son at the end is 20 now!!

Tommy_Tricker_ · 1 year ago

He is 20 and he now looks like an aborted fetus

Lance_HBomb · 1 year ago

Lols at Tom Hanks.

makearealmovie · 1 year ago

911 ruined alot of things... Cheap gas. Middle Class families, etc. Mortgage forclosures, healtcare coverage, etc. Federal government accountability, etc. Meanwhile defense industry & big business got obscene profits. To say that it ruined relatively rich people's film making ideas is a little insensitive.. I dont' see how a CGM (computer generated movie) with voiceovers would be relevant. No one cares for the "stupid is as stupid does" type when those who don't ordinarily stumble in live repeatedly get the short end of the stick...

How about a movie about what a hell it's been like living in the U.S. the past 8 years?
and dont' Gump it up either!

Good Job · 1 year ago

You just owned him.

Guest · 1 year ago

In the first paragraph of Gump & Co., Gump advises readers to never let anyone make film about them.

I wonder if that made it in.

whatever · 1 year ago

Or a movie about how pretty good it has been living in the U.S. for the last 8 years but how the left and the media try to brand it as the absolute worst time in history!! History is a foreign word to them though since they either forget it or refuse to learn from it. The same way that they will forget the next 4 years after it fails miserably.

erichansa · 1 year ago

Was it not Gump himself who taught us that life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what your gonna get?

erichansa · 1 year ago

Was it not Gump himself who taught us that life is like a box of chocolates...you never know what your gonna get?

marz · 1 year ago

am i the only one who feels like throwing forest gump into the dvd player right now.damn.i couldnt if i wanted to.i dont even have the movie...note: another thing to add to my christmas list...that and the 3 season set of lost.

Nexus_6 · 1 year ago

Right on. That's all Gump 2 would be. I mean, really. The story was so implausible as it was, not to mention sappy to the extreme. Besides, does anyone really want to see the further adventures of this guy. I don't.

JMoney · 1 year ago

So it is true, 9/11 really did change everything

Captain_Howdy · 1 year ago

If it aint broke, don't fix it. We don't NEED another Forrest Gump movie. The first one said everything it had to say and wrapped everything up with a beautiful ribbon. Making a sequel to Forrest Gump, especially after all this time, reeks of greed, not the sincerity that it should.

Enrique Garcia · 1 year ago

I'm totally not seeing why 9/11 killed the sequel. I UNDERSTAND why it happened, but it's not a good reason. If you ask me, it should've been the reason to FASTTRACK the movie... Forrest Gump is one of those "ray of hope" type movies, the kind of story that shows anyone can do anything, which is the very thing this country needed after 9/11

hgjosh · 1 year ago

Omg I would LOVE to see this movie come into being. Not that it will, but I'd pay the 8 bucks to see it in the theater, and I've only been to the theater like 3 times in the last 2 years. I'm gonna have to get the book, I guess. Sounds like an entertaining read. I won't hate on the idea, though I do agree it woulda been tough to make just post 9/11. Maybe now is the time...

seanovan · 1 year ago

IF THEY DONT MAKE THIS THE TERRORISTS WILL HAVE WON!

;)

Greggory Basore · 1 year ago

I'll have to read the books someday but for the time being I'd rather not see a big screen sequel. Too much time's gone bay and Haley Joel Osmet is too old to play the kid so the recasting would feel weird.

ScuzzBuster · 1 year ago

Sounds to me like the sequel was pretty much just a collection of pieces extending the "gimmick" from the first of inserting Hanks into historical events. Sounds like standard Hollywood sequel and copycat style. It was the heart of the movie that made Gump good. The humor and the gimmick were just icing. In the end, the character story is what took the film from being easily forgettable to being good cinema. Hard to say, this could be a very unfair quote or description of the sequel, but maybe killing it was one of the few good things to come out of 9/11

Paul Goebel · 1 year ago

I personally think Tom Hanks would be a little too old to play this part now and if Forrest met Tom Hanks I would boo the screen. I hate crap like that. It's clear that Tom Hanks will be remembered as one of teh world's most beloved actors and I always marvel at how much he loves to talk about his training. A good acting school is worth it’s weight in gold. The key is to find one that caters to your individual needs. Not only do you need the basic tools for auditioning, scene study and the like, but you need a curriculum that works with whatever your schedule may be. Whether you work all day, go to high school or care for your kids, not everyone can study in the traditional way. Another acting program that works this way is Film Connection. http://www.film-connection.com/Acting.html The Film Connection's acting program is affiliated with Joe Anthony studios and fetures valuable one-on-one mentoring. They are also available to anyone living in the United States and have financial aid assisatnce.

jhol · 1 year ago

No. No he did not "own" him. Yeah, MickJ said he loved the movie, but if it only "has one or two things wrong with it," pointing out those one or two things (especially if he acts like it's no big deal) is totally uncalled for.

winston · 1 year ago

stupid winston groom is a name used by the writers meaning 2 people he is not even the writer of the first book trust me i was their when the book was written and i didnt write a second book in 1995 so who is winston and who is groom truth do you believe everything you read hear or watch a good thing to watch would be the oringinal awards from 1994 one was picked up by our publisher his words " the two young writers are unable to pick up this award due to problem in thier personal lifes." or something along those lines truth were was i tied to a chair force to drink draino gettin the livin crap beat out of me why you say hostal take over is how i think of it jealous people do jealous thing If i cant have it you cant somepeople will do anything for money in return i say what comes around goes around shit may happen but im gonna get you bitchs know who you messin with and i got friends in low places only reason i lived is i annoying and crazier than the people they hired hell im a writer bitch i can play to

winston · 1 year ago

o'ya just to let the coureous know snoop dog mentioned my ordeal during some award ceramony in 2006 or 2007 just my orrdeal not who i am i dont use my real name becouse i want to live a normal out of the spot light life but ..........shit is go 'n to hit the fan............j'm gonna get you bitches the bitches didnt want forest they wanted the land i bought with my money from forest............ not for sale means not for sale............. money grubn land developers along with the city and reallators......... but little did they know the girl who came up with the kraft slogan kraft mac arooni and cheese is the cheesiest they should it Kraft cheese and macrooni...... dint just write that Oh not the buck didnt stop there but if you want to know who i really am trivia presuit got it right

c.h. greenblast · 1 year ago

sir .the first book was written by two 8 year olds. know the truth, ask matthew not matt

Erik · 12 months ago

worst idea ever..

Steave · 12 months ago

I believe certain films should never have a sequel (although Studio Execs hardly ever listen to me anymore) and Forest Gump is one of them.

Admittedly, I once thought a sequel to Toy Story would be a bad idea and I was wrong on that one..

alizee · 11 months ago

Considering the nature of Forest Gump and the title of this article I imagined a CGI GUmp superimposed on one of the two towers as the planes hit.

jayjay · 7 months ago

hi, i got the chance to watch the movie for the very first time in school as part of a movie review in one of our subjct, after wacthing the film, my professor told us some information and back ground bout its story.

I was really confused and skeptic when he said that the movie was based on true to life as in it really do happened and the characters do exist. So being so skeptic I had my research bout the said film, and none of all my researches proved that the movie was true in reality.

still skeptic..........
could anyone please assured me that the film was only a fictional story and that there was no Forrest Gump in real world who owns the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co...
pleaseeeee......

anybody is free to leave me a message for a film review or discussion bout the movie "forrest Gump" in my email add:
cool_jane_19@yahoo.com

thanks.

Kelly · 1 month ago

Forrest Gump is as relevant now as it was in what the 80's 90's, the man that wrote Forrest Gump is so smart that people probably won't catch up to the meaning for about 100 years. It is Timeless. It doesn't take a genius to be a gazillionar, or someone with a low IQ to be a genius.
"Stupid is as stupid does" if we can't apply what we have learned from the past. Then there is no such thing as an educated person.