With the modern trend of old franchises heading back to the well LONG after their last installments (Rocky, Rambo, Indy) there has been some whispers recently about the possibility of the Delorean time machine revving up it’s engine again for another trip Back To The Future. However, as the good folks over at Moviehole point out, this isn’t going to happen:
Gale (The producer), talking at the 5th Annual Celebration Exotic Car Festival benefiting the Make-A-Wish Foundation, opened the floor with, “Let me answer one question before anyone asks it, which is, ‘Is there ever be a Back to the Future Part IV?’”, Gale began, before answering, “No.” (According to BTTF.com) Gale’s announcement didn’t go down well. The crowd apparently went a little sour on him upon hearing that Marty and Doc wouldn’t be back.
“Well now, wait a minute now. We’ve all seen sometimes where they make one too many sequels and you say, ‘Maybe they shouldn’t have done that.’ I’m not going to name any names of movies, but you know what they are!,” quipped Gale. “But more importantly, as I’m sure you all know, Michael J. Fox is not in the best of shape with his Parkinson’s,” he went on to explain. “The idea of making another Back to the Future movie without Michael J. Fox — you know, that’s like saying ‘I’m going to cook you a steak dinner and I’m going to hold the beef.’ You can’t do that.”
“The filmmakers - we all love the three Back to the Future movies just the way they are,” added Gale. “I’m sure Universal would love it if we were to say to them, ‘Hey, let’s do another one,’ but we don’t think we could ever make a fourth one that would live up to how great the first three are, so we’re going to leave well enough alone.”
i can appreciate where Gale is coming from and I respect his decision. Don’t get me wrong, if there were a fantastic script on the table with a Back To the Future story that just HAD to be told, then I’d be totally down with that. But make that decision based on a script… don’t base a script on a decision.
That’s what Indiana Jones 4 was… a script based on a decision. They first decided there was going to be an Indy 4… and THEN came up with a script. Instead, they should have waited to see if there was a great script that HAD to be told, and then made the decision to go ahead and make it. The result was still an entertaining Indy 4 movie… but overall disappointing and not worthy of the Indy name.
Plus… would anyone alive right now go see a Back to the Future 4 without Michael J Fox? No… I didn’t think so.
40 Comments, Comment or Ping
Johnson
While it may be fun to see what Marty and Doc are upto these days i’m very happy to see BTTF stay as a trilogy.
May 27th, 2008
Sir Jig-A-Lot
wow! hollyweird people in charge of a big franchise showing restraint. i’m impressed. thank fuck they’re leaving it be.
May 27th, 2008
Jay
Wasn’t to keen on the BTTF series anyway, the 1st one was ok for most part.
The only thing I liked was MJ Fox/Christopher Lloyd’s performance and the car.
May 27th, 2008
FullMetal Patch
I’m glad SOMEONE in Hollywood is showing a modicum of appropriate restraint when it comes to the sequels-for-the-sake-of-sequels trend. There are those like George Lucas who just can’t leave a good thing alone until they cheapen it, but this news restores my faith in the good sense of at least part of the filmmaking community.
On the other hand, I would TOTALLY go see a Back to the Future IV if it ever came out…but I’m just a mindless consumer, lol.
May 27th, 2008
1138
I’ll disagree on which should have come first to be honest John. Whether the “Decision” Or “Great Script” came first is irrelevant. A great script is a great script, regardless when it comes…the trick is to identify which is a great script.
Did George, who’s decision making has been rather suspect over the last 10 years, make the right choice jettisoning Darabont’s script? Making him write several rewrites before making the decision about going in another direction? I’ll never know but I would love to get my hands on it.
Granted This Indy was the weakest of the bunch even though I enjoyed it. But the movie’s weakness was indeed based on decision, a decision to use a weak script with a weak story. And probably a rushed effort to get something to screen while Ford was still able to walk without a cane.
As for Back to the Future, yeah I would love them to make a 4, but considering Fox’s current state of health unlikely and unwise.
I can see someone else playing Indy (Even though Ford will always be the best), and I’ve grown so used to seeing the multiple incarnations of Bond, but seeing someone else play Marty is unthinkable to me for some reason. Fox will always be Marty and Lloyd will always be Doc. Not having them would be a huge mistake!
May 27th, 2008
shadopup
No Back to the Future 4 is fine with me. The original three stand up well and the two sequels flow naturally from the first (although I wasn’t that keen on the 3rd one but that’s only because I’m not into the western genre)
But really, is there anything else new to add to this story? I don’t think so. The 3rd movie closed out the series nicely.
May 27th, 2008
Jason Stanley
This really pisses me off…WHY oh why do people call out for a film that would just be out of place (and excuse the pun) out of time?
The problem is there are thousands (or millions or whatever) people that need their nostalgic fix. They’re not satisfied so they decide YES it would be a good idea to take something that was so classic and so ‘of its time’ and remake it for today’s audience.
Just go out…pick up a copy of the original trilogy and jerk off to your heart’s content. I’m so tired of fucking remakes. Leave the goddamn past in the past.
May 27th, 2008
melbye
Number 3 said The End when it was finished, and the time-machine was destroyed, and it should stay that way.
May 27th, 2008
grendel25
If they remake it they could get Nick Nolte, judging from his mug shot, to play the professor.
May 27th, 2008
leaner
With all the remake news going on latley, I almost died when I saw the picture of BTTF on this page, without reading the title. And not a good “die” either. I was like oh no, it’s either a sequel, or their remaking it. Thank god thats not the case. A franchise that finally won’t get fucked. And no, their will never be another Fox or Llyod
May 27th, 2008
Mikey
All of us would see it with out MJF. But we would all bitch about it and say how much it was going to suck. We are all whores
May 27th, 2008
chris (the real one)
good news…they dont need to do anything else after the perfection of the first 2….and dont even mention the 3rd….decent enough but not up to par….
May 27th, 2008
Darren J Seeley
Hey, they can always get Eric Stolz…
I’m evil, yes I know.
For the int’l friends told me so ;)
Seriously, it’s a smart move.
May 27th, 2008
Rafa1215
I can see it now Marty’s got the park and he’s telling the story of the fourth BTTF from his hospital bed. It’s a story of Doc Brown’s nephew who picks up the slack where Marty left off.
May 27th, 2008
DON
people who ask for sequels to old big entertaining flicks are idiots.
Those who asked for Indy 4 were idiots. They got it and it turned out to be total shit. Well atleast for me. Indy 4 was worse than speed racer in my opinion and that is something.
May 27th, 2008
Scott A.
A fourth BTTF film would be totally unnecessary.
May 27th, 2008
Bruce
Does anyone around hear get sick of talking about remakes, comic book movies or video game films? Its like we are all floating in shit. Know one is evolving, studio and cooperation have basically learned that there is so much money in an idea thats part of pop culture and that nothing new ever really has to be created. we still watching the same show, movies, playing the same games, seeing the same toy characters in shops! Do people actually like talking about all this stuff, we only do it because they tell us to and that is all there is, when will people demand change, the people should control what movies we see, and to a point they do, thats why we see who much shit because people are so dumb and we are all forced to there level to become as dumb as them and talk about who plays captain america or if there will be another back to the future. soon we will forget that film used to be an art and not just a sticker on a lunch box.
May 27th, 2008
Sir Jig-A-Lot
i get that shitfloating feeling quite often,Bruce. though it makes that feeling worth it when something of quality like Iron Man blasts out of this dungheap called Pop Culture.
May 28th, 2008
ANTOINE
They could make three Back 2 the future movies without both Doc and Marty where the three movies are set in the future (long pass what we saw in part 2) and someone got the delorian (which is now in some futuristic musuem) and get it working and everything about Doc and Marty will be seen historically. So thereby creating a backdrop for a brand new story with the Dolorian and going back to the pass (1990s-2000s).
Now with that idea in mind there could be one character who is both scientist and young. He would remind us of Marty but also he would remind us of Doc. He would be (or she would be) all about the history of the Dolorian and the time travelers who made time travel possible in the first place.
I do not agree that there couldn’t be good ideas, good treatments and good scripts for not 1 but 3 movies set way in the future. For some reason I’m thinking 2088, or 2055. They could even explain how the Dolorian was recovered to even be in the museum because in part 3 a train destroyed it. And the Train that the Doc made that was powered by steam could also be in the museum just to show that this was the way the Dolorian was recovered.
Just my thoughts.
Jun 4th, 2008
Mattiac
@Antoine: Pretty good thoughts you’ve got there. :)
Jun 4th, 2008
Alap
When will Back to the future 4 release?
Jun 15th, 2008
Mark Johnson
Why not have a back to the future 2, with Marty’s Kids, and Doc’s Kids going foward in time to the year 3000.
Doc said in the last one that no one’s future has been written. His kids don’t have to look like they did in part 2!!
The script could include Doc and Marty trying to save the kid from the future.
There are a milion possible ideas, and if Gale ever wants to contact me, I could give him a script that would make all fans happy!
Jul 8th, 2008
pedro
pues a fecha de hoy jueves 10 de julio de 2008 hay colgado un trailer de la caurta parte en youtube y si no te lo cres pon la pagina web lo siguente Back to the Future Part 4 trailer
Jul 10th, 2008
Usman Khan
I think personally, if for example Back to the future part 4 came out in the cinema and Michael J Fox did not star in the Bttf4 movie, I will not see it, you know why I won’t see it, because Michael J Fox did not star in the 4th installment of the movie. Do you know what will happen?, Back to the future part 4 might be rubbish and the movie will get messed up and could be a flop, you never know what can happen with the 4th part without Michael J Fox. Look at Sylvester Stallone, he’s done all six Rocky movies and four Rambo movies and he did not say that I am not going to do another Rocky or another Rambo, he just got on with it. Same with Harrison Ford he did all four Indiana Jones movies as well. The same should apply with Back to the Future part 4, it has to be the same cast as he is Michael J Fox in Back to the future part 4.
If Michael J Fox was in Back to the future part 4, I will see it and I will be very happy, not just me personally, the fans all over the world will be very happy as well.
It’s better for Michael J Fox to play not the young Marty Mcfly which he was in part1,2,3, in the 4th bttf4, he should play the old Marty Mcfly. They also need a younger cast to do the Hoverboard chase and the running around.
What Gale should do is wait for Michael J Fox to recover.
One last thing, Michael J Fox said that he wants to do more back to the future movies in the near future. http://www.monstersandcritics.com/movies/news/article_1070980.php/Michael_J._Fox_goes_Back_to_the_Future
Jul 10th, 2008
Ruffs
Back to the future was, is and will always be my favourite movie of all time. Not just because of a brilliantly written and twisted story. Not just because of the magnificent characters, but because the movie captured the precise moment in time perfectly (1985).
When you hear the song “Eye if the Tiger” you are instantly reminded of ROCKY. The music and movie go hand in hand. Not only had you just watched the movie but, you were also listening to the music that was in the most dynamic part of the movie being played on the radio.
But what about back to the future? Not only content with having a soundtrack also simultaneously played on the radio. It gave the recording artists, (Huey Lewis and The News and ZZ Top) characters to play in the movie. The art of incorporating popular music artists with catchy songs and great movie story lines is one which few movie makers fail to achieve when making sequels.
Would another sequel to BTTF really do the movie justice?
The only way there could ever be a perfect “back to the future part 4″ is if they actually made the move directly after “back to the future part 3 and placed it in a vault for 23 years. Movie makers should look to the future regarding these types of things.
But what if the movie WAS remade?
It would probably end up like “Speed Racer” or that mess they made of “Star Wars” with so much CGI to mask the failed attempt of capturing brilliance. We all know what a computer can do, and i think movie makers fail to remember that it was our Imagination that was captured with the original movies. Somewhere movie makers looked towards computers to make things look so believably real and we lost one of our thought processes. Would it work with a change of cast? a different voice? a different face? a different car? sounds like a different movie to me. Or they could go down the route of Indiana Jones and create a blue printed carbon copy of the formula for the original movie styles but again fail to inject “The Moment” into the movie as in the original BTTF with current music and radio airtime a great story line, believable characters.
If the movie makers want to make a sequel and the first thing people say when they hear about it is “I can’t believe they are making a sequel” then the movie makers need to think bloody hard about how they are going to make it believable cause CGI just won’t cut it.
Jul 15th, 2008
DARIN
i think they should make a back to the future 4 if micheal j fox will do it we know micheal is going threw tuff times right now but i would love for them to come back out with another movie of that also they need to bring back the back to the future ride back into orlando and get rid of the stupid simpsons ride
Jul 17th, 2008
yuk
Hey, howzabout a truely temporally twisted flick in which Doc and Mcfly have to partner up with multiples of each other (where everyone has to avoid eye contact, comedy) to keep a runaway time loop paradox from destroying the entire continuum (drama, gotta have a good mix…)?
Aug 29th, 2008
Steff
Making a sequel without Fox or Loyd is like making a Star Wars Episode 7 without some one else than Mark Hamil for Luke. For me, there’s absolutly no way to make a 4th without destroying the 3 first. At the end of the 1st we see : To be continued. At the end of the 2nd we see : To be conclued. And at the end of the 3rd we see : The End. From the beginning of the first, it was writted as a trilogy, nothing can be added. For my part, I can say I’m one of the greatest fan of this serie. You know why? Because I cannot stay more than a month without reviewing the trilogy. I saw the first when I was 9 years old (the release VHS date was in 1989). After that I saw the 2nd and the 3rd in 1991. No I didn’t saw them in a theater, and that’s a thing that haunt me some nights. If only I had this Dolorean, the first thing I would make is to return in the 80’s to see this trilogy in a theater. And even after reviewing them all these times, I’m not tired and the next month I’ll watch them another time. But if one day there’s a 4th, I don’t even want to know it, because the 3 first are not 3 movies, it’s one movie splited in 3. It’s only one story, writted at once. And that’s what make great series in cinema.
PS: For those who say that the 2 first are good but that the 3rd is not very great, I said that to in the first time I saw them, but you know? The more you watch the trilogy, the more you understand and the more you see details. I know some details about this story that so many people don’t know, even after they saw the trilogy even more than one time. Some details like the name of the ravine at the end of the 3rd (Eastwood Ravine). The whole trilogy is full of detail that many of you don’t even know.
Aug 30th, 2008
Steff
Just a little thing very funny to add here. We nearly approach 2015 and the cars still don’t fly. We cannot regenerated people like Doc was in the second movie. We have a very very short time to make Jaws 5, 6, 7, 8 ,9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 to make the 19th in 2015. We’re our Hoverboard? But the most funny, in the movie, the little Tv at the 80’s coffee is not a flat screen LCD Tv. Many other details like that will make the 2nd movie totally wrong in 2015. It’s really bad, cause I want to show this trilogy to my kids one day.
Aug 30th, 2008
Steff
A last detail for those who say here that at the end of the 3rd we see The End ans the time macine is destroyed…. How could you saw The End without seeing the Flying Time Train????
Aug 30th, 2008
StevefromWI
After seeing BTTF 3 again today(thanks to the multiple re-runs on the movie channels) I’m back in the mood. Every time I see either one of the movies, I’m always in full tune. So I think if they were to bring out more BTTF’s I would welcome them.
However, I am taking into consideration Fox’s condition, so that does leave a problem. I agree, a BTTF 4 (or more) wouldn’t work without him or Doc for that matter. They would have to come up with an explanation in the movie on why we won’t see them anymore. (I sense a Forrest Gump, bench sitting story from Fox!!! just kidding)
The one thing that I am grateful for is that they DID NOT make a television series or cartoon from the movies(unless I just never heard of them)
I do believe that leaving us all with the last view of the train flying leaves a slight hint of..”What now?”.
So, come on and light up our futures and bring us what we all want deep inside, which is some more Great Scott’s and Heavy’s.
Aug 31st, 2008
Paul
I love to see another BttF movie, along as they keep to the same theme but a different story.
I’ll say have a prequel about the young Emmeitt and his adventures…we can see how he is then and find out how he became the Doc we all know and love.
Sep 14th, 2008
Chris
I dont know….I doubt this is gonna happen.
Sep 25th, 2008
del taylor
might seem sick but certainly not meant that way.maybe a good script could involve m.j fox starring in movie but in certain scenes.his screen son-marti jnr take lead role.possibly including a side effect on marti time travelling contracts depleting genetic illness.so marti jnr and doc use pieces of original delorian and put it in a futuristic speedboat(88mph!!)to try stop marti snr travelling in first place so thus stopping his altering genetic illness/only to be thwarted by biff/biff jnr,who in turn steal delorian in parallell universe right back at start in carpark before terrorists shoot doc.thus the end again starting at the beginning.got that??? end of the day with time travel,parrellel universes anthing possible;unlike a really poor indiana4/rocky6. impossible2 reverse ageing process.
Sep 26th, 2008
Rookies and newbies
Michael j. Fox isn’t needed they can make several more BTF movies using a whole other family, I love time travel movies and want to see a new adventure you canbring the doc and a new family.
Sep 28th, 2008
Name Required
Why not have Christopher Lloyd play the staring role in a new “Dr. Who” movie or series?
Oct 7th, 2008
name
Look, Back to the Future ended well. The third movie started to push it for me with the setting, but overall the series was complete. Force a part 4 in there and you start going too far. I agree that if one were to come naturally it would be fine. But you can’t cram something into a series just because alot of people think it should be there.
Look at Star Wars. If my 3 year old didn’t happen to like the idea of wielding his lightsaber around i couldnt stomach any of the 6 movies after episodes 1 thru 3 came out. GARBAGE!!!
At least Back to the Future is a trilogy. Let’s remaster it, slap it on Blu-Ray and move on.
A reboot that pays tribute to the series, that perhaps follow Doc Brown through his early years of discovering time travel would be interesting but if they screw it up by not staying true to the originality of the first 3 it will suck… like STAR WARS!
na screw it. leave it alone as one of the few untainted series.
remake bill and ted or something.
Oct 13th, 2008
Chris
Dude….this is not gonna happen….And Besides I highly doubt it will. They should do a video game {Like the new ghostbusters game for intesne}
Oct 25th, 2008
MJ
Woooooo not true! Think end of BTTF part 2 1955 to 1885 for a minute..
The time circuits and flying circuits were damaged on the Delorean when Doc was struck by lightning. Assuming upon being being struck by lightning, Doc landed and the time machine didnt blow up, they technically could have refit Docs “lightning struck” Delorean with the 1955 circuitry “1955Doc” had just fit to the Dolrean Marty just drove to go save DOC
Following me? They didn’t need a train, or horses, or fuel.
THERE WERE TWO* Deloreans in 1885. I cat imagine a storyline where they could revive the Delorean other than going back on the train time machine to get the DELOREAN or simply saying Doc buried the lightning damaged Delorean “again” and they recover it in 1985 or 2010???
Its waiting. :) Im watching the sequal now. my nightly sleeping pill.. the heck with Lunesta dope pills.
I got u you mutated son-Bitch! You Space Bastard! You killed my Pine!!! lol
Nov 1st, 2008
Heather
i wish Doctor restart fix to micheal j fox ’s brain is back star movie back to the future :(. they people argee vote me. christopher lloyed has disppointed wants know peoples yells vote want more movie bttf . dawn it. bob gale make mess up life ruin from rules movie. i feel peoples wishes doctor fix to micheal j fox’s brain has cells. i argee it. thank you. i pray for micheal j fox back more learn restart study movie bttf. i hope it.
Nov 2nd, 2008
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