In a recent interview Robert Zemeckis, director of the original Back to the Future movies, revealed that he pitched an idea for a new Back to the Future project to Universal but was turned down.
What?!?
Ok, so Zemeckis wanted to do a musical Back to the Future movie but the studio didn’t want to make it: “I would like to do the Back to the Future: The Musical [movie],” Zemeckis says, “I would love to do that. think that would be great. I floated that out to the folks at Universal. They don’t get it. So, [there’s] nothing I can do.”
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When pushed on if this was the only way he’d make a new Back to the Future movie, Zemeckis made it clear that the trilogy is the start, middle and end of that story: “We’ve always felt that, ‘This was enough’ and that we had to live with it just being the three movies.
“The musical is more of a companion to the movies than a remake. It’s sort of like another … it’s a whole other thing. It’s a celebration of the movie basically.”
He said that Universal asks him ‘every six months’ to make a new movie in the franchise but he has no interest it revisiting the story of Doc Brown and Marty McFly: “They say, ‘Is there anything else we can do here?’ And we have to say, ‘Yeah there are different things that might work.’ But to remake the movie or suggest that there is a Back to the Future 4 … it just isn’t in the cards.”
co-writers of the series, Zemeckis and Bob Gale have always been very clear that there would never be a sequel, reboot, reimagining, spinoff or anything else to the series as long as they were around and it seems that they are sticking to those guns and they will always have our gratitude for that.
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