Forrest Gump 2 Was Very Much On Track In Early 2000s ( Photo Credit – A Still From Forrest Gump )

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In the past couple of months, the attention of the audience, especially the Indian segment, has moved towards Forrest Gump as the country witnessed the soulful remake of the timeless Hollywood classic titled Laal Singh Chaddha starring Aamir Khan. Tom Hanks in just one film defined a generation of Hollywood cinema and was a smart meta film about a fictional story set in the real land. But the biggest question that lured around the team was always that why didn’t a sequel to the film ever happen?

If you are unaware, Forrest Gump is an onscreen adaptation of Winston Groom’s book by the same name. While the movie ended at the events of the first, Groom continued to write his universe and rolled out a sequel to his book titled Gump & Co making way for a sequel to the cinematic version. There were even plans to let it happen but turned out it never happened.

Yes, you read that right. The team including director Robert Zemeckis, writer Eric Roth and Tom Hanks with Winston Groom’s green signal were ready to adapt Gump & Co as the sequel to Forrest Gump. The team while on the verge of shaping the film in a meeting decided to shelve it. Read on to know what happened for the team to take such a drastic step.

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