Off The Ground
While Forrest Gump is a wildly successful film now, it wasn’t easy to get this project off the ground. Wendy Finerman, the producer, read the novel and saw that it had potential to be made into a film. However not many people agreed with her. After pitching the idea numerous times, she hadn’t convinced anyone to take the project on. That was until Tom Hanks signed on.
Off The Ground
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