Should Seth McFarlande make Back to the Future 4?

[Jayson1]

While we know their won't be a movie until the original creators move on to a place were they can no longer prevent a 4th part which I am very okay with because I don't ever want to see a bad version of the movies but when the day comes am I the only one who thinks he would be a perfect fit for the job? Much like how he would be a perfect fit for a Star Trek or Star Wars project I think his Back to the Future fandom would lead to him creating something that is fun and worthy of the first 3 legendary movies . I could even see him playing the role of one of Doc Brown or Marty's kids all grown up. While you get someone else in of course as the star.

Jason

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Do Zemeckis & Gale have the rights, or Universal?

Seth has worked with Universal, so there's that. A Million Ways To Die In The West was, for me, a really good movie.

I think Seth could do a great BTTF sequel, or remake.

 

[Jayson1]

I think Zemeckis and Gale do have the rights or at least have the ability to stop a remake or sequel. It's the main reason why one hasn't already been done.


Jason

 

[Campe]

No thank you. I have no problem with Seth, but why do we need to revisit old series? Let some things stand as they are.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I'm not for a BTTF sequel at all.. but if he were to do it, than I'd come around. Really starting to like his sensibilities.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

My response to this is the meme of Michael Scott screaming “NOOOOO!”

His style of humor is fine for his own projects. I would nominate him to make a parody of Back To The Future in a second. He can’t write emotional depth or real adventure stories without the emotional components having a pat sitcommy beat.

 

[JD]

Yeah, I'm not really sure if his style of humor is a good fit for BTTF. It feels a bit more grounded, compared to McFarlane's more over the top style.

 

[Campe]

None of this changes the fact that Zemeckis doesn't want a sequel. In an interview with Yahoo:

Back To The Future topped a poll of films people want to see more of, you’ve been adamantly against a fourth film, are you still?

Oh god yes. But I think what the poll is saying… they asked a specific question, so I guess they felt it was important to spend money to poll the world, and ask this question, but don’t you think we could all have just given them the same answer? It confirms what we all know, but what I think the fans are really saying is that we really like this movie and if it were possible I’d like more of it. But they understand that it can’t be done.

If that's not succinct enough, he also said:

“There will never ever be, in the most absolute way, a Back To The Future 4. There will be no more Back To The Future.”

 

[JD]

I guess that must be why Gale went to comics to continue the story.

 

[FreezeC77]

Will the movie show how Marty and Doc fucked us all out of a really cool future where we had flying cars and hoverboards because of all their tinkering with the timeline and now we got *THIS SHIT WE SEE NOW*?

 

[Bornin1980something]

My response to this is the meme of Michael Scott screaming “NOOOOO!”

His style of humor is fine for his own projects. I would nominate him to make a parody of Back To The Future in a second. He can’t write emotional depth or real adventure stories without the emotional components having a pat sitcommy beat.

Are you sure? Were you watching the same Orville I was?

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Are you sure? Were you watching the same Orville I was?

The only genuine emotion I see in the Orville comes from when he actors do a good job. The emotions of the writing are like the canned emotions in sitcoms where somebody gets mad for a week and then is okay again by the end of the week. This is a show where cutting off someone's leg is a schoolyard prank and taking advantage of someone who's basically on roofies is not a big deal.

 

[diankra]

Don't want a sequel or remake, but if one had to happen he'd be one of the better choices.
But just let it be as is.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Should Seth McFarlande make Back to the Future 4?

No.

Next pointless question?

None of this changes the fact that Zemeckis doesn't want a sequel. In an interview with Yahoo:

Back To The Future topped a poll of films people want to see more of, you’ve been adamantly against a fourth film, are you still?

Oh god yes. But I think what the poll is saying… they asked a specific question, so I guess they felt it was important to spend money to poll the world, and ask this question, but don’t you think we could all have just given them the same answer? It confirms what we all know, but what I think the fans are really saying is that we really like this movie and if it were possible I’d like more of it. But they understand that it can’t be done.

If that's not succinct enough, he also said:

“There will never ever be, in the most absolute way, a Back To The Future 4. There will be no more Back To The Future.”

Exactly.

There's no need for a sequel and there should never be a sequel.

 

[Lord Garth]

While we know their won't be a movie until the original creators move on to a place were they can no longer prevent a 4th part which I am very okay with because I don't ever want to see a bad version of the movies but when the day comes am I the only one who thinks he would be a perfect fit for the job? Much like how he would be a perfect fit for a Star Trek or Star Wars project I think his Back to the Future fandom would lead to him creating something that is fun and worthy of the first 3 legendary movies . I could even see him playing the role of one of Doc Brown or Marty's kids all grown up. While you get someone else in of course as the star.

There was a time when I wouldn't have minded a fourth movie but that time passed once Michael J. Fox was diagnosed. And a film about Doc and Marty's kids sounds horrible. Normally, I'd say they should reboot BUT I don't think what they did with those movies can be recaptured. It's best left as it is.

 

[Jayson1]

If I was going to do it I think I would focus on a kid in 2005 who is a smart kid whose parents died in 1985 when he was just a baby. He wants to go back and meet them. Soon as this happens the him from 2020 shows up in a DeLorem played by Seth. Him and older him make the time machine in 2005 and they go back but plot reasons send them back to 1965 when his parents are young like him and he has to make sure they meet or else he won't be born.

He also falls in love with this girl in 1965 and then when trying to return the Delorem is destroyed and then his daugher from 1985 who was born because they stayed in 1965 comes back to help return him to 2005. The twist though is he chooses to stay and so his daughter can live and not fade away by going back to 2005. He stays with the girl and becomes friends with his parents in 1965. I would also work in a cameo for Doc Brown and Marty somehow.

Jason

 

[JirinPanthosa]

If I was doing it I’d make the characters the kids of Marty and Jennifer. In this future, Doc Brown eventually settled down in a time period Jules and Verne could be the same age as Marty’s kids and dismantled the train time machine.

But they still came to 2015 back in 1985 to stop the kids from going to prison. And Jewels and Verne remember being told that story. Jewels is into Marty’s daughter so plans to wait for them to show up, steal the car and take her on a joyride through time and be back the moment they left without them noticing.

Things go wrong from there. The rest would not interweave with the OT at all, totally different time periods. Except maybe one scene where the time machine is malfunctioning and you see them appear and disappear in the background of the clock tower scene without anyone noticing.

Edit: Ooh, got it. First thing they do is go a few years to the future to a nightclub currently being built so they can use their valid IDs that say they are 21. There they get in a fight with Griff Tannon who just got out of prison, and back in the time machine, spill beer on the targeting computer. Causing it to malfunction and send them to random times. After a few adventures just jumping around and hoping to get lucky, they end up in 1939 during the debate over joining WW2. They decide to try to ask a teenage Emmett Brown for help.

Lots of humor from the encounter with a teenage mad scientist seeing computers and fusion generators. He figures it out and fixes the time machine but now a Nazi spy got hold of schematics for the fusion generator and they get back into a Nazi run 2015.

They have to escape the Nazis, go back again and get the plans back. They get back to 2015, and walk away from the car just as Biff is walking up to it to steal it.

The punchline is when they all get home and play dumb, they get in trouble for drinking.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I think Zemeckis and Gale do have the rights or at least have the ability to stop a remake or sequel. It's the main reason why one hasn't already been done.

That's what I've understood too. They were heavily involved in the Telltale game from awhile ago. It presented some interesting ideas, such as the Tannens being involved in the Prohibition, and a 1984-like authoritarian future.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

No.

Next pointless question?

Exactly.

There's no need for a sequel and there should never be a sequel.

I know...a prequel! No wait...a reboot!!

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I was just thinking they'd have to drag me kicking and screaming to get me to leave 1985 lol