The co-author and producer of the “Back to the Future” trilogy has announced that there will never be another film adaptation of the classic film.
Although studios have courted him to revive the franchise, Bob Gale tells Yahoo he is not interested.
“Let’s be honest, we’ve seen a lot of sequels made many years later, and I don’t think I can name one that’s good,” he says. “That does the originals justice. I don’t think you can repeat that.”
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Gale wrote the screenplay for the three films together with Robert Zemeckis, who also directed them.
“We’re not going to do director’s cuts, we’re not going to do a 3D version, we’re not going to change any of the special effects. People love them the way they are, we think they’re really good. Let’s not change anything.”
Instead, the two are working on a Back to the Future musical, which is currently in pre-production. Gale will write the book, the trilogy’s composer Alan Silvestri will be responsible for the music, while pop producer Glen Ballard is working on the lyrics.
“I don’t know when it’s going to be ready,” admits Gale. “It was announced that it was going to come out in 2015 – then it won’t come out. We’re not going to release it until we’re absolutely thrilled with it ourselves. We’ve decided to do that rather than reboot the film or make another sequel.”
The writer/producer attended Secret Cinema’s “BTTF” event three nights in a row this summer (“hopefully they do it again”) and no doubt had to listen to endless questions about the anomalies of time travel. But that doesn’t worry him.
“We don’t worry about any of that – it’s a movie,” he says. “People said to us, ‘How come you put Lea Thompson in Part III when she’s the great-great grandmother?’ We said there are two reasons. If you want the time travel reason, then it would be that the McFly men are attracted to women who look like Lea Thompson. If you want the practical reason, then the idea that we’re making a Back to the Future movie and not putting Lea in it is crazy!”
Finally, we ask you again: Are you absolutely sure that “Back to the Future” will no longer be shown in cinemas? The checks that were dangled in front of you must have been pretty generous?
“We don’t need the money,” says Gale. “If we were seriously in debt, maybe it would be different!”
The Steven Spielberg Director’s Collection is now available on Blu-ray.
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