Stupid Is as Stupid Does - The Unlikely Journey of a Producer on Forrest Gump - Hardcoverby Steve Starkey (Author), Tom Hanks (Foreword by) In the summer of 1993, an army of filmmakers arrived in the Lowcountry of South Carolina and began work on the groundbreaking film Forrest Gump. Led by visionary director Robert Zemeckis and the extraordinary Tom Hanks, the team didn't know at the time that the film would make cinematic history. They were challenged by the complicated details of the production on a movie that depicted a turbulent time