Forrest Gump 2 still hasn't happened after 30 years, but the release of Here has caused many to wonder if one finally will. However, it's a bad idea.

In the film “Here”, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright had to remember what it was like to be in their 20s to portray de-aged versions of their characters.

Robert Zemeckis’ best films were box office hits that helped put the American filmmaker’s name on the map like Forrest Gump, the Back to the Future films, and Who Framed Roger Rabbit. With his top box office flick being 1994’s best picture winner Forrest Gump,

On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here, a $50 million Robert Zemeckis-directed film that used real time generative AI face transformation techniques to portray actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright across a 60-year span,

Tom Hanks and Robin Wright play a couple across decades in Here thanks to AI-generative tech, giving them a digital face lift to play teenagers.

In the 1994 Oscar-winning film, Forrest Gump, Tom Hanks plays the titular character who runs—a lot. As a child he ran to escape bullies with his mother (Sally Field) urging him to, “ Run, Forrest, run! ” As an adult, Forrest made an epic run back-and-forth across the United States “for no particular reason.”