Michael J. Fox Has 1 Idea for a ‘Back to the Future’ Remake
Nowadays, Hollywood is remaking every old movie, but it left Back to the Future intact. Michael J. Fox has an idea for a possible fourth film. Regardless, he doesn’t think another movie needs to be made.
Michael J. Fox said a new ‘Back to the Future’ should make 1 major change
During a 2022 interview with Entertainment Tonight, Fox discussed his feelings about the Back to the Future franchise. “There’s something about it that connects with people on every level,” he said. “I just feel like it will come around again.”
The star had a bold prescription for a new Back to the Future movie. “I actually had this thought that if they did the movie again, they should do it with a girl as Marty,” he said. Fox’s comments reflect a new era of Hollywood filmmaking that is more concerned with feminism than ever before.
Michael J. Fox would prefer his signature film be left alone
During a 2023 interview with Variety, however, Fox said that a new Back to the Future was a bad idea. “I’m not fanatical,” Fox said. “Do what you want. It’s your movie. I got paid already.”
Fox said that director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale had taken the correct route by leaving the series alone. “I don’t think it needs to be,” Fox added. “I think Bob and Bob have been really smart about that. I don’t think it needs rebooting because are you going to clarify something? You’re going to find a better way to tell the story? I doubt it.”
Fox revealed if anyone ever asked him to return to the franchise after Back to the Future Part III. “I’m sure somebody thought about it,” Fox said. “But I was in the early stages of Parkinson’s at that point, so I don’t know that I would have wanted to take that on. Right after Part III had done well, there might have been conversations about it, but I never got involved in them.”
How would fans react to a female Marty McFly
The real question here is whether or not audiences would accept a female-led Back to the Future movie. A new entry in the series with a female lead could work; however, some viewers get touchy when Hollywood remakes old movies with significant changes. In 2016, the industry rebooted Ghostbusters franchise with women in the lead roles, and sexists all over the internet attacked the film. The Ghostbusters reboot became an infamous bomb, and subsequent Ghostbusters films didn’t market themselves as feminist movies.
On the other hand, 2015 saw the release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the first Star Wars film with a woman in the lead role. The fan response to that movie was rapturous. Could a new Back to the Future film pull that off? Or will the film walk in front of a sexist firing squad before it even gets the chance to win people over? Either way, it seems like Fox ironically doesn’t think tinkering with the past is necessary.
Regardless of what might happen to the series, the original Back to the Future will forever be one of the better popcorn movies to come out of the 1980s.
