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The soundtrack features songs reflecting the different periods seen in the film. Forrest Gump was released in the United States on July 6, 1994, and received widespread critical acclaim for Zemeckis' direction, performances (particularly those of Hanks and Sinise), visual effects, music, and screenplay.
Forrest Gump is a 1986 novel by Winston Groom. The title character retells adventures ranging from shrimp boating and ping pong championships, to thinking about his childhood love, as he bumbles his way through American history, with everything from the Vietnam War to college football becoming part of the story.
A sequel had been in the works, due to the success of the first book and film. [6] Screenwriter Eric Roth submitted a script for the sequel on September 10, 2001, but after the September 11 attacks, there was a sense that "the world had changed" and that the plot of Gump and Co. was no longer relevant.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly in a video published Nov. 13, Forrest Gump director Robert Zemeckis and stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright opened up about the creation of the movie.
Speaking on the red carpet of the movie's world premiereat AFI Fest in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 25, Hanks, 68, opened up about what it was like to once again work with his Forrest Gump costar ...
Wright portrayed Jenny, Forrest's childhood friend whom he marries by the end of the movie. Related: Forrest Gump Is 30! All About Tom Hanks and Robin Wright's Bond as They Team Up for a New Movie
Forrest was born near the small town of Greenbow, Alabama.His father was absent during his life, and his mother said he was "on vacation". His mother named Forrest after their ancestor Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Scotch-Irish American [2] and a noted Confederate general in the American Civil War and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
The plot includes scenes in which Forrest Gump ballroom danced with Princess Diana and rode in OJ Simpson's white Bronco. Forrest Gump screenwriter Eric Roth details plot for bizarre sequel ...