On this date in 1994 the film Forrest Gump was released in LA. 10 things you might not know:
The film Forrest Gump is based on a novel by Winston Groom, published in 1986. It wasn’t a best seller until after the film came out. In 1995 Groom wrote a sequel, Gump & Co. In the book, Forrest goes to space, runs for the US senate and plays in a Chess tournament.
The original choice to play Forrest was John Travolta, who turned it down and later said doing so had been a big mistake. Others considered for the role were Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, John Goodman and Matthew Broderick. Jodie Foster, Nicole Kidman, and Demi Moore all turned down the role of Jenny Curran.
All 30 songs on the official soundtrack are by American artists. This was on purpose, as director Robert Zemeckis strongly believed Forrest Gump would only ever buy American music.
Scenes in both the Gump family home and in Vietnam were filmed in South Carolina.
In the scene where Forrest meets Elvis, although Elvis is portrayed by Peter Dobson, the voice belongs to Kurt Russell, who wasn’t credited.
Industrial Light & Magic were responsible for the film's visual effects, and were able to use CGI to insert Forrest into archive footage of historical people and shake hands with them. Hanks was shot against a blue screen with reference markers so that he could line up with them. Voice actors provided the dialogue.
Gary Sinese had blue fabric wrapped around his legs so they could be digitally removed for scenes after he lost them. In other scenes he used a wheelchair with a platform underneath to hide his legs. Using it was so uncomfortable for the actor that he could only film in it for ten minutes at a time.
The running scene was inspired by Louis Michael Figueroa, aged 16, who ran from New Jersey to San Francisco for the American Cancer Society in 1982. Tom Hanks’s younger brother Jim was the acting double for those scenes.
Each time Forrest’s age advances in the film, in the first scene for that age, he is wearing a Blue plaid shirt.
During the ping-pong matches, there was no ball; it was entirely CGI, animated to meet the actors' paddles.
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The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
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