One of Tom Hanks’ most celebrated movies nearly got a sequel—and the finished script was ready exactly 25 years ago this week. Screenwriter Eric Roth said he turned in his Forrest Gump follow-up on

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Ten years ago this week, Clint Eastwood and Tom Hanks turned one of aviation’s most extraordinary survival stories into one of the year’s acclaimed movies. Sully, which opened in U.S. theaters on September 9,

On one of the darkest days in American history, an enormous rescue effort was unfolding along the water’s edge.

Oscar winners Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg once joined forces behind the camera for a critically acclaimed WWII series, and it celebrates 25 years today.

“Of course, we had no idea how nice,” Jeff Franklin tells PEOPLE of working with a young Hanks