Where is the Back to the Future Remake?

[theenglish]

Now that we are almost half way through 2015 it dawned on me that a studio should have made a Back to the Future remake at this point.

Marty could be in the past missing his social media and connection to the internet. The Doc's joke about how everyone will have a fusion generator in "2015" would still work. There could be some funny jokes with Marty trying to touch screens to make them work or trying to find more stations on a television.

At then end, he could play "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

There are many people out there much younger than me. How would BTTF work with Marty traveling thirty years into the past from today?

 

[brianbeercan]

I'd like to see a sequel where Marty goes back to 1985 to prevent himself from getting Parkinson's.

 

[Nightowl1701]

Somehow, I'm imagining Jennifer Lawrence as "Mindy" getting out of the DeLorean...

 

[Owain Taggart]

Well, there's already been a sort of continuation with Telltale's games, with some of the original people involved. None of the episodes themselves go far into the future, though it does visit a fun 1984-like alternate take on Hill Valley. The games are probably the only new BTTF thing we'll get for some time.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I don't know if it would have had an effect but Hot Tub Time Machine mined that territory some already.

 

[Garak]

We are actually only 0.35 gigawats away from a Back to the Future reboot.

 

[Gaith]

Nothing has changed, Hollywood- or cultural-wise, since we last discussed such an idea in 2013 - a discussion in which you, theenglish, took a significant part. Bob Zemeckis and Bob Gates are, AFAIK, still working on a musical adaptation of the original movie, and have no interest in further movies, be they remakes, sequels, or what-have-you.

Whether Universal has the legal right to make BttF-branded movies with the Bobs' approval is unknown to me, but there's been no talk of such, in the open, at least.

 

[HIjol]

As you say, Gaith
The Bobs' say no, not ever.

Never Say Never!

Though, I think it is Right to let the three movies stand as they, and let us continue to remember and love what is certainly one of the more beloved pairings of stars in a film.

Doc and Marty...For All Time!

 

[Iamnotspock]

No. It's the perfect trilogy IMHO. I say let it stand.

I'd like to see a sequel where Marty goes back to 1985 to prevent himself from getting Parkinson's.

 

[mos6507]

They might be able to pull a next-generation thing, assuming not every generation is supposed to look like identical twins (which they kind of messed up on with the 3rd movie).

 

[theenglish]

Nothing has changed, Hollywood- or cultural-wise, since we last discussed such an idea in 2013 - a discussion in which you, theenglish, took a significant part. Bob Zemeckis and Bob Gates are, AFAIK, still working on a musical adaptation of the original movie, and have no interest in further movies, be they remakes, sequels, or what-have-you.

Whether Universal has the legal right to make BttF-branded movies with the Bobs' approval is unknown to me, but there's been no talk of such, in the open, at least.

I think we spent a lot of time discussing whether there had been enough social change since the eighties to even make it humorous.

This thread was inspired more by the sheer quantity of eighties and nineties reboots that have been announced over the past few months.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

In a remake, they would probably have to bump 2015 up to at least 2115. It'd probably take us at least a century to get up to the technological level that the movies' 2015 showed. (Oh well, that was the 80's for ya - everybody thought we'd be flying around in only 30 years. ) Although I have a sneaking suspicion that part of Marty's "mission" is to fix things such that the 'real' 2015 isn't so cartoonish...

As for further films, they could always do a prequel (young Doc) or sequels (Jules and Verne). There's lots of potential left in the BTTF franchise.

 

[hux]

Didn't I read somewhere that Nike are bringing out those BTTF2 trainers in 2015?

Still waiting for that damn hover board though

 

[theenglish]

Didn't I read somewhere that Nike are bringing out those BTTF2 trainers in 2015?

Still waiting for that damn hover board though

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/142464853/hendo-hoverboards-worlds-first-real-hoverboard


http://www.iflscience.com/technology/power-laced-sneakers-promised-year

 

[Saul]

I'm wondering where the hell the Knight-Rider movie is.

 

[Gaith]

Whether Universal has the legal right to make BttF-branded movies with the Bobs' approval is unknown to me, but there's been no talk of such, in the open, at least.

This thread was inspired more by the sheer quantity of eighties and nineties reboots that have been announced over the past few months.

As your own quoted quote of mine shows, I addressed the Hollywood part, too.

 

[fonzob1]

Now that we are almost half way through 2015 it dawned on me that a studio should have made a Back to the Future remake at this point.

Marty could be in the past missing his social media and connection to the internet. The Doc's joke about how everyone will have a fusion generator in "2015" would still work. There could be some funny jokes with Marty trying to touch screens to make them work or trying to find more stations on a television.

At then end, he could play "Smells Like Teen Spirit".

There are many people out there much younger than me. How would BTTF work with Marty traveling thirty years into the past from today?

No Thank you. Don't touch the Back to the Future trilogy.

In a remake, they would probably have to bump 2015 up to at least 2115. It'd probably take us at least a century to get up to the technological level that the movies' 2015 showed. (Oh well, that was the 80's for ya - everybody thought we'd be flying around in only 30 years. )

Let's hope we never see people flying cars. People are bad enough drivers on the road.

 

[Smellmet]

the day they announce a BTTF remake/reboot is the day I finally lose all hope in humanity and kill myself.