There is a possibility that America’s favorite chocolate loving mental deficient may be back for a sequel. Forrest Gump was a box office smash, so it doesn’t come as a surprise. Although it is 13 years old.

This isn’t a new idea either. Paramount has been kicking around the idea for some time and in 2001 they even hired Forrest Gump writer Eric Roth to pen a sequel screenplay.

So, why didn’t Paramount make this five years ago when Roth first wrote the script? Apparently Apparently the project got bogged down in a big legal tiff between Groom, the book’s original author, and the studio.