Forrest Gump II [CBD]

First treatment of the planned sequel to Forrest Gump.

[Casting notes: Tom Hanks is too fat, but he has demonstrated that he can lose the weight, so let's try to get him to reprise his role. Haley Joel Osment is perfect for Forrest Jr. because he is a druggie, and has no career to speak of]

Prologue: Forrest is told by his doctor that he has AIDS, contracted from his grasping harpy of a dead wife.

1. In a panic, he begins to run, this time South to North, but fails to understand the effects of cold on exposed flesh. He loses two fingers on his right hand, all of his toes, and the tip of his nose to frostbite during a storm outside of Winnipeg.

2. He returns to Alabama to care for Forrest Junior, who becomes increasingly difficult to handle as he grows older and discovers that his father really is a dumb-shit.

3. Forrest Jr. begins to dabble in drugs and petty crime, and soon attracts the attention of the local police chief, who blackmails Forrest Sr. into paying him to keep Jr. out of jail.

4. Forrest Sr. finds Forrest Jr. shooting heroin, but believes his son's explanation that "it's just medicine for cold and cough." Forrest Sr. tries it, and is soon a full-blown junkie. Because he hasn't told his son that he has AIDS, Forrest Jr. shares his needles with his father, and soon is diagnosed with AIDS.

5. Forrest Sr. depletes his savings paying off the sheriff and trying every quack remedy and becomes destitute.

6. Camera pulls away as father and son run maniacally through the yard of the foreclosed house, chasing a feather.

Fin

posted by Open Blogger at 04:15 PM

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