Interesting Facts about Forrest Gump (21 of 21)

Dispute

Winston Groom, the author of the ‘Forrest Gump’ novel was only paid $350,000 for the script’s rights. He opted to receive 3% of the movies’ net profits, but the film didn’t end up making a profit, so he was left with zero earnings. Groom entered into a dispute with Paramount Picture, which he later settled, after Paramount bought the rights to a script from another one of Groom’s books.

Movie Sequel

Despite the fact that Forrest Gump fans would love the opportunity to see its sequel, it seems at this point, unlikely to happen. The reason is no one wants to do it. Most critics say that Forrest Gump’s “successful failure” was just a fluke and that the sequel would certainly be a complete failure. Also, Tom Hanks said that he would never play another role of Forrest because he thinks that the sequel might “ruin what we had done.”

Screenplay Ready

Eric Roth, who won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for ‘Forrest Gump’, and who wrote scripts of many other successful movies such as ‘The Insider,’ ‘Munich,’ ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ and ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,’ did write the sequel after all. The screenplay for the ‘Forrest Gump’ sequel was written and dropped in the mail for submission on September 10, 2001. When 9/11 happened, no one wanted to give it a go.