Screenwriter Eric Roth has claimed that the September 11 terror attacks halted plans for a Forrest Gump sequel.

Roth told Slash Film that a script for a follow-up to the Oscar-winning Tom Hanks drama had been handed over to studio Paramount the day before the attacks.

He said of the aborted project: "It's a continuation really - I want to start the movie literally two minutes after the end of the last one, with him on the bus bench waiting for his son to get home from school.

"But I turned in the script the night before 9/11. And we sat down, Tom and [director 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."

Winston Groom, who wrote the book on which Forrest Gump was based, penned a sequel novel in 1996 titled Gump And Co.

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