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One of the most iconic movies of the 1990s almost had a sequel.
Released in 1994, Forrest Gump has been a huge critical and commercial success, bringing in more than $ 677 million in box office and winning many Oscars, including a gong of Best Actor for Tom Hanks for playing the modest young man who played a central role in the History of modern history the most defining moments.
With the original movie based on a Winston Groom novel, director Robert Zemeckis was lucky: in 1995, Groom wrote a second Gump novel, meaning that there was a source material for a sequel.
Screenwriter Eric Roth, who originally adapted Groom's novel on screen and was awarded an Oscar, was commissioned to write the screenplay for the sequel.
He made his draft complete on September 10, 2001.
"Literally, I shot it the day before September 11," Roth told Yahoo Entertainment.
"And Tom (Hanks) and I and Bob (Zemeckis) met on September 11 to complain about how tragic the life in America was. And we looked at each other and said, "This film does not make sense in that sense anymore". "
So, what exactly happens in this unpublished sequel? While Forrest Gump Traced the story of the life of the titular character from his childhood in the 1950s, until the Vietnam War and until the 1970s, the sequel – entitled Gump and Co. – will resume in the 1980s.
And things turn sadly for Gump's own son, played in the original movie by young Haley Joel Osment.
"It was going to start with his little boy's AIDS," Roth told Yahoo, explaining that the film would have examined the brutal stigma of HIV / AIDS in the 1980s, with the boy being discriminated against at school. because of his illness.
And then the sequel would see Gump appear again in some of the most memorable moments in the story – this time in the back of OJ Simpson's Bronco during the police car chase of the sports star in 1994 after the murder of his ex-wife.
"He looked up from time to time, but they did not see him in the rearview mirror, then he came down," Roth said.
Gump would also become a ballroom dancer, dancing with Princess Diana before her death in 1997.
Another concrete event of the scenario: the 1995 attack in Oklahoma City, a terrorist attack that killed 168 people.
Gump becomes friends with a Native American, who teaches a crib in a government building in Oklahoma City (actual bombing site). In the proposed film, Gump sits on a bench outside the building and waits for her to join him for lunch when the building behind him explodes.
Given the tragic events just a day after Roth made his screenplay, the sequel was put on the ice – permanently. "Everything seemed meaningless," he said of life immediately after 9/11.
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