12 Crazy Sequel Pitches That Almost Ruined Great Films

7. Forrest Gump 2: Gump & Co

Who wouldn't want to see Tom Hanks reprise his role as the mild-mannered everyman hero Forrest Gump for a sequel in which he enjoyed further adventures into the 80s and 90s? Well, most people, considering how bloody awful the 80s and 90s actually were.

The terribly named Gump & Co would have included Gump taking part in Operation Desert storm with his best friend Sue the Orangutan, who thankfully never made it into the film adaptation of the first book, helping to destroy the Berlin wall and also meeting an actor called Tom Hanks. Because the story of the book, on which a script by Eric Roth was based involved the "real life" events of the film being shot (as a biopic of a real Forrest Gump) affecting Gump's life, to the extent that he attended the Oscars for it.

The problem here, is that Gump & Co was not a good book, and the light of the stellar success of the first film adaptation, it would have become little more than a disappointing failure, unless it had some seriously big rewrites. Perhaps we might feel better about the 80s and 90s in ten more years, but I can't see it happening, and nostalgia was a major part of Gump's initial success.