Will we ever get Back to the Future 4 with Christopher Lloyd and Michael J Fox?
A screenwriter for Back to the Future issued a savage response after being questioned on a possible fourth sequel.
The sci-fi classic was released July, 1985, and followed Michael J Fox as teenager Marty McFly, alongside eccentric scientist Dr Emmett ‘Doc’ Brown (Christopher Lloyd), as they embarked on adventures while traveling through time.
They later reprised their roles for two sequels, in 1989 and 1990 – while the movies also sparked a Broadway musical.
However, if you’re hoping to see Marty and the Doc on the big screen again, screenwriter Bob Gale has an unfortunate update for you.
According to Yahoo Entertainment, via Variety, he appeared backstage at the Saturn Awards where he was questioned on whether Back to the Future 4 could ever be a possibility.
‘People always say, “When are you going to do Back to the Future 4 and we say, “F**k you,”’ he responded, before sharing possible plans for a stage production on board Royal Caribbean Cruises.
‘So, my God, Back to the Future, I’m going to be doing it for the rest of my life,’ he added.
The original flick, directed by Robert Zemeckis, focused on Marty and the Doc as they traveled back to the 50s in a modified DeLorean – where the school student got into a very sticky situation when he was forced to make sure his parents fell in love.
In the 1989 outing, they climbed back into the time-traveling car and jetted off to 2015, while they found themselves in 1885 in the third movie.
During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, the filmmaker previously shared that Universal approach him about a fourth film ‘every couple of years’.
‘We have to say, “There are different things that might work.” Something like that, you know? But to remake the movie or to suggest that there’s a Back to the Future 4, it just isn’t in the cards,’ he insisted at the time.
‘I would like to do the Back to the Future: The Musical [movie]. I would love to do that. I 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.’
Michael, who spoke publicly about his diagnosis with Parkinson’s in 1991, added to Variety of a possible sequel: ‘I don’t think it needs to be.
‘I think [Robert has] been really smart about that. I don’t think it needs rebooting because are you going to clarify something? You’re going to find a better way to tell the story? I doubt it.’
Back To The Future writer has brutal statement to fans begging for sequel