‘Back to the Future 4’ Isn’t Happening, Bob Gale Says

The Back to the Future films have stopped at three.

Bob Gale, who co-produced and co-wrote the classic 80s films with Robert Zemeckis, was asked backstage at the Saturn Awards what dreams he still has left after achieving so much success from the franchise.

“I’m having the best third act of life that anybody could envision,” Gale reacted alengthyside the film’s stars Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson. “People always say, well, ‘When are you guys going to do Back to the Future 4? And we say, ‘Fuck you,’ you quote me on that!”

Gale carry ond: “We made three terrific movies and people kept asking for more Back to the Future. So we made Back to the Future: The Musical … We’re taking it around the world.”

The producer remarkd how in compriseition to the film’s musical alteration traveling apass North America, it also has arranges to uncover in Japan, Germany, Australia and on Royal Caribbean Cruises. “So, my God, Back to the Future, I’m going to be doing it for the rest of my life. Who could ask for anyleang more?” he said.

Back to the Future: The Musical, nominated for two Tony Awards, seald on Broadway last month. It showed at the Winter Garden Theatre for 18 months and grossed $1.9 million.

“It’s a terrificpartner fun and amusing story that labors proximately as well onstage as it did on film,” The Hollywood Reporter wrote in its appraise of the Broadway show. “Where the show pulls out the stops is with its technical elements, including dazzling projections, one-of-a-kind effects … and creative sound and airying arranges to give the production the experience of a, no surpelevate here, theme-park enticeion. But as Broadway-theme-park-enticeion shows go — and there have been plenty of them — this one repartner amazees, with the sides and ceiling of the cavernous Winter Garden tricked out with airying and video projections that produce you experience as if you’re inside a huge computer.”

The musical is currently take parting at the West End for its fourth year.