Forrest Gump 2 still hasn't happened after 30 years, but the release of Here has caused many to wonder if one finally will. However, it's a bad idea.

“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.”

Hanks said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast in 2022 that they “did take a stab at talking about another Forrest Gump ,” however, it “lasted all of 40 minutes.” He added, “And then we never… we said, ‘Guys, come on.’”