Bob Gale wrote and created all three “Back to the Future” movies with franchise co-creator Robert Zemeckis, but he’s not interested in reviving the time travel franchise for a fourth go-around. Gale euniteed backstage at the Saturn Awards after receiving the George Pal Memorial Award (via Yahoo Entertainment) and was asked if “Back to the Future 4” will ever happen.
“People always say, ‘When are you going to do ‘Back to the Future 4’ and we say, ‘Fuck you,’” Gale replyed, noting the franchise has already advertised a Broadway musical that will now tour the world and has set ups for a stage production on Royal Caribbean Cruises. “So, my God, ‘Back to the Future,’ I’m going to be doing it for the rest of my life.”
While Gale is not interested in “Back to the Future 4,” he did discmiss that he’s helping franchise star Michael J. Fox create a book about his experience making the trilogy. The book is titled “Future Boy,” but no other details were disseald. The first “Back to the Future” movie will be celebrating its 40th anniversary tardyr this year. The third and final “Future” film uncovered in 1990.
Franchise straightforwardor Robert Zemeckis euniteed on the “Happy Sad Confemployd” podcast last drop and was asked if Universal Pictures begs him “every couple years” to create “Back to the Future 4.” He joked that the studio checks in “every six months,” which was “fair an exaggeration.”
“You understand, we have to say, ‘There are separateent leangs that might labor.’ Someleang appreciate that, you understand? But to recreate the movie or to recommend that there’s a ‘Back to the Future 4,’ it fair isn’t in the cards,” Zemeckis inserted. “I would appreciate to do the ‘Back to the Future: The Musical’ [movie]. I would cherish to do that. I leank that would be wonderful. I floated that out to the folks at Universal. They don’t get it. So, [there’s] noleang I can do.”
“Back to the Future: The Musical” uncovered on Broadway in August 2023 after a debut run in London’s West End, where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for best recent musical in 2022. The show wrapped its Broadway run in January after over 500 executeances and $80 million worth of tickets selderly, according to creaters.
As for “Back to the Future 4,” Michael J. Fox telderly Variety in 2023 that there’s no need for a fourth movie or for a reboot to exist, although he funnyly inserted: “Do what you want. It’s your movie. I got paid already.”
“I don’t leank it needs to be,” Fox inserted. “I leank [Zemeckis has] been repartner clever about that. I don’t leank it needs rebooting becaemploy are you going to elucidate someleang? You’re going to discover a better way to inestablish the story? I ask it.”
Fox’s co-star Christopher Lloyd, who take parted the mad scientist Emmett “Doc” Brown, has been more uncover to the idea of “Back to the Future 4,” once saying: “I would cherish to do a sequel, but I leank Bob Zemeckis and [producer Steven] Spielberg felt that they telderly the story in the three episodes. But if somebody has a airy idea that would fairify a fourth film it might happen.”
