Tom Hanks is glad to go away Forrest Gump simply how it’s.
The Oscar winner, who reteamed along with his Forrest Gump co-star Robin Wright and director Robert Zemeckis for his or her new film Right here, lately informed The New York Instances that he’s grateful a sequel to the 1994 movie was by no means made.
“It is this extraordinary amalgam that stands completely on its own and never has to be repeated,” he stated of the film. “And thank God we never bothered trying to make another one. Why put a hat on a hat?”
Forrest Gump, which noticed Hanks play the titular character, was primarily based on late writer Winston Groom‘s 1986 novel. The movie follows the lifetime of Forrest Gump, an Alabama man with an IQ of 75 who yearns to be reunited along with his childhood sweetheart, and his experiences from the Nineteen Fifties to the Nineteen Seventies
Whereas a sequel was by no means tailored for the large display screen, Groom did publish a 1995 sequel, Gump & Co., following the success of Forrest Gump.
Hanks stated on the Completely satisfied Unhappy Confused podcast in 2022 that they “did take a stab at talking about another Forrest Gump,” nevertheless, it “lasted all of 40 minutes.” He added, “And then we never… we said, ‘Guys, come on.’”
Elsewhere in his interview with the Instances, the Asteroid Metropolis actor added that he enjoys seeing how particular the film nonetheless is for folks.
“I still get letters all the time saying, every year the family gets together, we do what we did back in 1995, when it first came out on home video. We all watch it, from beginning to end,” he stated. “Right now, someone is watching that movie from beginning to end somewhere in the world. And it’s landing with that same sense of comfort and familiarity.”
