Despite the occasional rumour suggesting Paramount were interested (and I don’t doubt they are interested – look at how much money the original film made!), Tom Hanks says there’s never been any serious consideration to do a sequel to “Forrest Gump”.

Despite a sequel - Winston Groom’s “Gump & Co” - existing in literary form, the actor doesn’t feel there’s any need to return to the role, and says nobody’s ever seriously considered it.

The 52-year-old actor, out spruiking ''Angels and Demons'', told Radio1 that there was never any serious discussion of turning “Gump & Co” - which sees Gump stumbling through important events in the 80s and 90s - into a movie.

"There was a brief 'Well, would it work, what would be the point?' But we would have just been repeating ourselves. So there's no reason to do it."

In 2008, ''Forrest Gump'' scribe Eric Roth told SlashFilm that he’d in fact written a draft of a sequel but, like Hanks, went cold on the idea. "I turned in my version of the Forrest Gump sequel, or Part II, whatever you call it… It's a continuation really - I want to start the movie literally two minutes after the end of the last one, with him on the bus bench waiting for his son to get home from school."

"But I turned in the script the night before 9/11. 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."