A Forrest Gump Sequel?

Gump & Co. Getting Another Look from Paramount?

Vietnam veteran and world known American author Winston Groom, who wrote the Pulitzer Prize winning novel "Forrest Gump" seems to have no love lost for the Hollywood establishment. In the sequel to the book which is entitled "Gump & Co." The first line is "don't let those Hollywood people make a movie about your life because they will always screw it up." The truth about the Academy-Award winning film is that things simply didn't quite capture the real truth about Forrest, Jenny and Lieutenant Dan Taylor. Yes, Forrest and Jenny had a son and yes, Forrest and Dan Taylor did go into the shrimping business. The truth is though that in the book Forrest and Jenny never got married. Jenny came to realize that Forrest was in capable at that juncture of raising a son. Lieutenant Dan did get artificial legs after the war, but they weren't made of titanium in a space ship like the movie leads you to believe. The truth is Dan is still a cantankerous, bitter old man which he is through most of the movie. Dan never got married and remains a bachelor throughout this book as well.

Instead of positive things always happening to Forrest what you ended up with was a lucky situation in which Forrest screwed up. One of the most important characters in the first book was a Mr. Trible, who helped Forrest learn the ropes of business. The movie itself makes no mention of Mr. Trible. It is serious omissions of characters that put doubt in Winston Groom's eyes as to whether or not there will be a sequel. Hollywood producers have been trying for years to get Groom to come to terms with them, but until recently contacts and terms have broken down. If a sequel ever does come expect Forrest to be involved in the thick of the Jim Bakker, Iran-Contra and New Coke fiascoes. There is a very funny scene in the book where Forrest meets the actor Tom Hanks in a nightclub in New York City as Forrest has been working for Ivan Boesky, a man who was later convicted of one of the largest insider trading scandals in history. Tom Hanks would be talking to himself in the movie if a sequel does come to metabolize.