Gump and Co. Gump and Co. Gump & Co. (or Forrest Gump and Co.) is a 1995 novel by Winston Groom. It is the sequel to his novel "Forrest Gump" (1986), and the Academy Award-winning film of the same name released in 1994, with Tom Hanks. It was written to chronicle Forrest's life throughout the 1980s. On the first page, Forrest Gump tells readers "Don't never let nobody make a movie of your life's story," though "Whether they get it right or wrong, it don't matter." However, the character is not an idiot savant, as in the first book, but more similar to
Gump and Co. A screenplay was written by Eric Roth based on "Gump and Co." in 2001. In 2007, Paramount took another look at the project, but nothing came of it. The proposed film was mentioned in "Cecil B. Demented", a John Waters film. In "Cecil", the planned sequel for the movie "Forrest Gump" is called "Forrest Gump, Gump Again". Larry King reportedly called it "the funniest novel I ever read". The publisher, Simon & Schuster, cite a number of positive reviews, including Patricia Holt, in the "San Francisco Chronicle", saying it "is a delight". "The New York Times" review called the book's