The Back to the Future films have stopped at three.
Bob Gale, who co-created and co-wrote the classic 80s films with Robert Zemeckis, was asked backstage at the Saturn Awards what dreams he still has left after achieving so much success from the franchise.
“I’m having the best third act of life that anybody could imagine,” Gale responded alongside the film’s stars Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson. “People always say, well, ‘When are you guys going to do Back to the Future 4? And we say, ‘Fuck you,’ you quote me on that!”
Gale continued: “We made three terrific movies and people kept asking for more Back to the Future. So we made Back to the Future: The Musical … We’re taking it around the world.”
The producer noted how in addition to the film’s musical adaptation traveling across North America, it also has plans to open in Japan, Germany, Australia and on Royal Caribbean Cruises. “So, my God, Back to the Future, I’m going to be doing it for the rest of my life. Who could ask for anything more?” he said.
Back to the Future: The Musical, nominated for two Tony Awards, closed on Broadway last month. It showed at the Winter Garden Theatre for 18 months and grossed $1.9 million.
“It’s a terrifically fun and amusing story that works nearly as well onstage as it did on film,” The Hollywood Reporter wrote in its review of the Broadway show. “Where the show pulls out the stops is with its technical elements, including dazzling projections, special effects (Chris Fisher is credited as “Illusion Designer”) and innovative sound and lighting designs to give the production the feel of a, no surprise here, theme-park attraction. But as Broadway-theme-park-attraction shows go — and there have been plenty of them — this one really impresses, with the sides and ceiling of the cavernous Winter Garden tricked out with lighting and video projections that make you feel as if you’re inside a giant computer.
The musical is currently playing at the West End for its fourth year.
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