Winston Groom signs copies of Gump & Co, the sequel to Forrest Gump, at a New York bookshop in 1995 Credit: Anders Krusberg/AP Winston Groom, who … The screenwriter behind the 1994 film Forrest Gump has spilled the tea on what would’ve gone down in the film’s proposed sequel and why it was ultimately scrapped. Winston Groom, a Southern writer who found a measure of belated celebrity when his 1986 novel, “Forrest Gump,” was made into the 1994 Oscar … The real Forrest Gump sequel In 2007, Cinema Blend reported that the suits at Paramount had pulled out Eric Roth's screenplay from the great big bin … The author of the original Forrest Gump novel and its sequel Gump and Co., Winston Groom, passed away … After the September 11 attacks, Roth, Zemeckis, and Hanks decided the story was no longer "relevant." In March 2007, however, it was reported Paramount producers took another look at the screenplay. Roth's script begins with Forrest sitting on a bench waiting for his son to return from school. The screenplay for the sequel was written by Eric Roth in 2001. In an interview with Yahoo Entertainment on Monday, Eric Roth, who wrote the screenplay for the Academy Award–winning film based on the 1986 Winston Groom novel, said he turned in a draft for the sequel on Sept. 10, 2001. Winston Groom Dies, Forrest Gump Creator and Author Was 77. It is based on the original novel's sequel, Gump and Co. written by Winston Groom in 1995.