Forrest is a much darker character and in a much more complex reality. We call it Forrest Fire

David Lynch bombed with Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, two years before the Academy Award-winning Forrest Gump came out. Tom Hanks wins his second Oscar in a row while David Lynch broods and eventually makes The Lost Highway in 1997. Fire Walk with Me got a positive evaluation as the work of art that it clearly is while people have cooled on our dear Forrest in the 30 years that have passed. 

If David Lynch agreed to do Forrest Gump in 1994, we think the tone would be very different. For one, Forrest eventually gives into his demons and kills Jenny. In fact, Jenny would probably be the main character as we know David Lynch wasn’t over Laura’s tragedy (and never was). Of course, Forrest would be a split character. Lt. Dan is probably a doppelganger (or possibly Bubba) but in the world of Lynch, simple Forrest can never just be simple. 

He’s not Dougie Jones, and not everything is going to work out. Forrest is Fred Madison mixed with Leland Palmer, and he is a very sick, twisted boy. He harbours the anger of what his mother had to do to get him into school, and he both worships and resents her at the same time. He transfers duality to Jenny before Lt. Dan takes over and kills Jenny. 

Other plans for Forrest include war crimes in Vietnam and the limb loss for Lt. Dan being symbolic rather than in reality (because in a Lynch film, does anything really happen)?

Would it be as good as a David Lynch Brokeback Mountain (That’s right, we went there), or Rocky.