Tom Hanks Says 'Thank God We Never Bothered Trying to Make' a “Forrest Gump” Sequel: 'Why Put a Hat on a Hat?'
“I turned in the script the night before 9/11,” Roth said. “And we sat down, Tom [Hanks] and Bob [Zemeckis] and I, looked at each other and said, we don’t think this is relevant anymore. The world had changed. Now time has obviously passed, but maybe some things should just be one thing and left as they are.”