The sequel to Forrest Gump that was never made

[Anoat]

So I just read an article about how the most depressing sequel that was never made; the direct sequel to Forrest Gump. The guy that wrote the screenplay for the original film and the author of the novel worked on a screenplay that featured Forrest’s life in the 80s and 90s and would be a rollercoaster of emotions that included hits such as:

Young Forrest does indeed have AIDS, dealt with bus desegregation issues in the south where nobody wants to ride the bus with the AIDS kid and he has to find a new home

Forrest becomes a savant world renowned ballroom dancer, eventually he ends up at a charity function where he dances with Princess Diana

Forrest somehow ends up in the back of OJ Simpson’s white bronco during the high speed freeway chase, ends up talking OJ into turning himself in

Forrest finds his true calling in life by becoming a Bingo announcer on a Native American reservation, where me meets a new woman who becomes his best friend. He would wait for her at the bus stop outside her workplace everyday so they could meet for lunch (where he narrates the film), and the end of the film reveals he has been waiting outside the federal building that was destroyed in the Oklahoma City bombing.

The dudes that wrote the screenplay then revealed they turned it in to Paramount on September 10, 2001. Everyone agreed that the movie could not be made in the aftermath of 9/11.

So anyways you guys enjoy the rest of your day now.

[Day]

thanks, i hate it

[Zealot]

I think Forrest was supposed to have been involved in tearing down the Berlin wall as well.

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[Salodin]

I would watch it

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[Xno Kappa]

No thanks.

Forrest Gump is a national treasure that doesn’t need a sequel.

[Zealot]

Also the original had him falling backwards into world events in a way that made at least some degree of sense. He was there at the dawn of desegregation because he lived in the south a the time. He fought in Vietnam because that's what poor kids in his generation were told to do. All the other cutesy world event stuff like Watergate and Lennon were like little interludes in the story of Forrest's life whereas here it sounds like they'd be the focus.

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[Demosthenes]

He was a pretty baller dude in the book.

[Fondue]

I thought Waterboy was the sequel

[BaneTheBrawler]

foosball is the DEBBUL

[DrClout]

Hard pass

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[Cail]

Didnt need a sequel. Still would have watched