Back to the Future 4

[cosmicherosa]

Shia LeBouf is slowly but sure wrecking everything that is great. I believe he was brought here to kill anything great about 1989 and back.

 

[Riven]

I really really hope they don't make a BTTF4... Michael J Fox was that franchise and they shouldn't make more movies if it's without him.

But what do I know, right? If even Lucas and Spielberg think there could be "Indiana Jones" movies without Harrison Ford, why the heck couldn't there be more BTTF's, huh? Maybe Shia Laboeuf... err, Marty McFly could travel back to ancient Rome to talk his great-great-great-great-great-great-[...]-great-grandfather out of marrying his equally great-grandmother, thereby imperilling his own existence again!




Or an even better idea! If Zemeckis comes back to direct the fourth movie, they could "mo-cap" Michael J Fox and have him play Marty McFly as a CGI "Polar Express" wax zombie!

 

[Webhead2006]

well the easiest thing to do you could make the film be about doc's kids who are young adults now and say maybe doc got stuck somewhere in time and then have michael j fox to a small cameo appearance in the film to work around his illness and all that. Or yea if the film was total motion cap-cgi like beowulf then getting all the original cast could easily work out more easily.

 

[Jochimus]

Much as I'd like to see even a new movie focusing on Jules and Verne on various misadventures aboard the Time Train with obligatory cameos by Fox and Lloyd, it's not gonna happen. Zemeckis and Gale have been pretty vocal in their efforts to burn down the rumor mill on this one. We'll see BTTF 4 about the same time that the Beatles get back together (at least in the living realm, anyway...)

And while it's been nice to see Lloyd as Doc again in a variety of venues, it's also kind of unfortunate that he's been shilling out the character as he has. I mean, the bookends on the cartoon and the queue video for the BTTF ride (RIP) were a nice follow-up, but c'mon...if you can't appear in a simple TV commercial without having to wear that wig, Chris, then you should either retire, or start doing the convention circuit, or just go into voiceover work already.

 

[That'ssuper!]

What on Earth would they need to go back to the future for again anyway? To prevent this franchise from ever being made?

 

[Webhead2006]

yea 4th film done by gale and zemeckis is likely never going to ever happen it would be nice but as others said not really needed since the 3 films are classics and i love them to death. The most likely thing we will see from BTTF is a remake happen probably within 5 to 10 yrs.

 

[Shifty]

The huge fire at Universal Studios took out the Hill Valley Courthouse Square

 

[Jspider13]

I'm guessing thats why it wasn't on the back lot tour.

 

[Webhead2006]

Yea it was so sad to hear about the fire at universal today. FRom what i read over the hrs it was the new york, brownstone, and new england street facades destroyed, the king kong ride destroyed, 2/3rds of the courtyard square(the diner side and the texaco gas station side) the other side and the clocktower i heard were damaged but survived. Then some other buildings and a vault holding up to 50,000 reels destroyed but they said have copies in other locations. Good news though BTTF has an article stating universal will rebuilt the courtyard square set and the new york set too, no word if the other destroyed/damaged areas will be rebuilt. here is article:

http://www.bttf.com/index.php?/weblog/more/iconic_sets_destroyed_at_universal_studios/

Iconic sets destroyed at Universal Studios
If Universal’s Courthouse Square and New York Street look familiar, it’s because they’ve had roles in many film, TV shoots.



Universal City, Calif. — It was where Robert Zemeckis shot the electrifying clock-tower climax with Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future. It was also the courthouse backdrop for Gregory Peck’s Oscar-winning performance in To Kill a Mockingbird.


In addition to engulfing a soundstage, a video vault and part of the King Kong attraction at Universal's theme park, the fire that broke out early Sunday on the studio's famous back lot destroyed the iconic Courthouse Square set, used in hundreds of film and TV productions over the decades, as well as part of the studio's New York Street area.

This isn't the first time the backlot has caught fire. Though the courthouse was spared in a 1990 blaze that swept through the studio (and destroyed more than four acres, including a building used in Dick Tracy and sets for Ben-Hur), the New York Street set had to be rebuilt from the smoldering ashes. That set was also destroyed by a fire in 1957.

Fans of the old television series Leave It to Beaver may recognize the courthouse facade as where the Beav went to school.

And before it was called Courthouse Square, thanks to its use in the Back to the Future movies, the area was known as Mockingbird Square because of its extensive use in the 1962 adaptation of the Harper Lee novel.

The Hill Valley clock tower was added to the courthouse for Back to the Future, but over the years, filmmakers have removed the clock and redressed the buildings for several films, including Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds, plus Bruce Almighty and The Cat in the Hat. It was also used in the 1960s musicals Bye Bye Birdie (it was where pop star Conrad Birdie performed to his adoring female fans) and The Music Man (as the locale of the "76 Trombones" parade finale).

Courthouse Square was one of the standing sets of the current CBS paranormal drama Ghost Whisperer.

Universal's New York Street area has also seen many TV shows, commercials and films. The set's New York Street is actually much smaller than it appears on-screen; it is curved on both ends to give the illusion on camera that it is a bigger area.

Among the recent films to have shot there are Clint Eastwood's latest, Changeling, and Eddie Murphy's upcoming summer comedy, Meet Dave.

Clay Griffith, Meet Dave's production designer, was saddened when he heard about the fire.

"It's so unfortunate," he said, adding that the Universal back lot, and its New York Street set specifically, helped productions save money. The studio's streetscape allows Hollywood productions to stay local and stage difficult sequences without worrying about crowds or other issues that could interrupt filming.

"We shot three different scenes there," Griffith says of the New York Street set. "One of them is an Italian street fair, which is pretty hard to do in New York unless you are there [during the fair]. There's also an explosion outside a police station, and it would have cost a lot of money if we shot it in New York."

Universal's New York Street set has also subbed for other cities, including San Francisco in Eastwood's 1971 classic Dirty Harry, Chicago for the 1973 Oscar winner The Sting and the 1980 comedy The Blues Brothers, Seattle for the 1987 comedy Harry and the Hendersons and even Kansas City for 1984's City Heat with Eastwood and Burt Reynolds.

For the opening sequence of last Christmas' box office hit National Treasure: Book of Secrets, the New York Street set was dressed to look like Washington, D.C., circa 1865. And in Spider-Man 2, the street's theater was the location for Mary Jane's performance in "The Importance of Being Earnest."

Television series that have shot on the street set include House, Ally McBeal, The X-Files, Murder, She Wrote, Ironside, Airwolf and Simon & Simon.

Both Courthouse Square and the New York Street sets are scheduled to be rebuilt.

 

[souvlaki]

Yea it was so sad to hear about the fire at universal today. FRom what i read over the hrs it was the new york, brownstone, and new england street facades destroyed, the king kong ride destroyed, 2/3rds of the courtyard square(the diner side and the texaco gas station side) the other side and the clocktower i heard were damaged but survived. Then some other buildings and a vault holding up to 50,000 reels destroyed but they said have copies in other locations. Good news though BTTF has an article stating universal will rebuilt the courtyard square set and the new york set too, no word if the other destroyed/damaged areas will be rebuilt. here is article:

http://www.bttf.com/index.php?/weblog/more/iconic_sets_destroyed_at_universal_studios/

My heart sank when I read this. BTTF is so ingrained in my childhood, and to think the original set is now practically destroyed is extremely depressing. It's nice to know they are re-building them, but it's not the same knowing they wont be the original. That was always the highlight of the tour for me when I visited Universal studios.

 

[Webhead2006]

well it hasnt been the originals for awhile there was a fire in the area back in 1990 and then for every tv show or movie shot in the courthouse square set gets the facades redressed.

 

[Mr. Socko]

Eventually there will be a remake but hopefully its 25 years from now. Universal will want some money.

Universal owns the rights to the films, but fortunately, Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis actually own the rights to the characters and their names. "Doc Brown," "Marty," "George McFly," etc. And as adamant as they are about not making a sequel, they surely wouldn't let Universal use the original names therefore the sequel would have to use a different set of characters(like say, Marcus McBeetle). They also would probably upgrade the delorean to something else, meaning we'll never get a 'proper' sequel. And that's a good thing in my book, the originals are fine as is.

 

[Webhead2006]

ok i was just reading a little while ago the cause of the studio was a worker working on the roof of one of the set buildings were using a blowtorch to fix a roof and it caused the fire.

 

[Octoberist]

Universal owns the rights to the films, but fortunately, Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis actually own the rights to the characters and their names. "Doc Brown," "Marty," "George McFly," etc. And as adamant as they are about not making a sequel, they surely wouldn't let Universal use the original names therefore the sequel would have to use a different set of characters(like say, Marcus McBeetle). They also would probably upgrade the delorean to something else, meaning we'll never get a 'proper' sequel. And that's a good thing in my book, the originals are fine as is.

God bless Zemeckis and Gale for not ****ing out Back to the Future with more sequels or remakes. It was the one movie that made THEM BIG.

That's why I was so dissapointed in Sam Raimi when he actually almost greenlit an Evil Dead remake. I was like "This movie made you..and you're going to remake, and taint whatever legacy it had?" Thank GOD it's dead, however.

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

There is already a Back to the Future 4 and it was done on Spin City

 

[GhostPoet]

Shia LeBouf is slowly but sure wrecking everything that is great. I believe he was brought here to kill anything great about 1989 and back.

By being a fantastic actor? Yeah...he's horrible.

 

[Kanon]

There is already a Back to the Future 4 and it was done on Spin City

I loved Spin City! the last episode with Michael broke my heart...

 

[Ultimate_Superman]

same here I stopped watching the show after Fox left the only episodes I watched after that was when he guest starred for like 3 episodes.

 

[dark_b]

poor MJF.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8lsjfjgAA8
he was such a funny actor

 

[Magneto29]

Jeez, that was him over a year ago and he was really bad then. It's so sad It's the good one's that bad things happen to.

 

[dark_b]

its a really pain to watch him.it hurts my body .

 

[Shifty]

It's kind of depressing realizing how far off the mark they will probably be about 2015. We'll be lucky if cars are running off something other than gasoline by 2015, let alone flying. And I want my hover board damn it!

Seem to be on the right track with video games.

"You mean you have to use your hands?"
"That's like a baby's game."

 

[Destructus86]

I would never want a reboot, remake or sequel to the current storyline of Back to the Future but I would not be opposed to a spin-off trilogy. IE...a new character finds the DeLorean (which was abandoned from a previously unknown timeline) and ends up on a new adventure of his own.

I would actually be fine with that.

 

[Dr. Evil]

I don't know why this thread is necessary.

Both Bob Gale and Bob Zemeckis said that as long as both are still alive, there will never be a fourth movie nor a reboot.

 

[Lord]

I don't know why it was resurrected, either way, the 3rd film didn't jump any shark the 2nd one didn't.