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Zemeckis Paid for the "Forrest Gump" Running Scenes

The studio was one day away from ending production on "Forrest Gump" due to financial setbacks, so director Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks singlehandedly paid for all of Forrest's running scenes in order to keep the film afloat. "The studio was one day away from pulling the plug on this one movie I was going to make, and the director came to my house and said, ‘Look, this is going to fall apart because they won’t give us the budget for shooting this one sequence, and we’ve got to have this sequence." What came of it was the most iconic scene in the whole movie, in which Forrest runs across the country in response to Jenny leaving him.

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.