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submitted 3 weeks ago by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/movies@lemm.ee

During an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast to promote his new film, Here, Zemeckis was asked if there was anything that he'd like to tackle before he retires, such as a genre that he hadn't worked in before, or an actor that he hadn't worked with yet. The director responded by saying that he would like to produce Back to the Future: The Musical as a feature film, not unlike the filmed version of the Broadway production adapting Mel Brooks' The Producers.

The stage musical version of Back to the Future opened in London's West End in 2021 to rave reviews, receiving the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Musical in 2022. The show moved to Broadway in August 2023, with a national touring production beginning in June of 2024. However, it doesn't look like the movie adaptation will happen, as Zemeckis has already pitched the idea at Universal and "they don't get it."

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[-] fjordbasa@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

I don’t hate this - I enjoyed the musical movie version of The Producers!

[-] VonReposti@feddit.dk 9 points 3 weeks ago

Zemeckis, are you okay? Do we need to call someone?

[-] wjrii@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

This is one more way for him to say, "Fuck off. We're not doing a sequel or reboot." Maybe with a little dash of, "but if you still wanted to throw some money at me..."

[-] VonReposti@feddit.dk 5 points 3 weeks ago

Kinda makes sense, but it is still weird hearing him say it. Especially after the musical flop that was Joker 2

[-] entropicdrift 3 points 3 weeks ago

Joker 2 was also pretty much explicitly a "fuck you, we don't need a sequel" of a movie

[-] UniversalMonk@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

as Zemeckis has already pitched the idea at Universal and “they don’t get it.”

I'm with them. I don't get it. It sounds like a horrible idea.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I could see this working if it were done in the style of "End of Evangelion", and it ended with Marty straddling and strangling Doc, for all of eternity.

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago

Everytime I see your username I smile

[-] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago

I generally don't like musicals except for Enchanted, which I attribute to Disney kind of making fun of itself. However I've never seen a proper stage musical and as BTTF is one of my favourite films ever, I went to see the musical earlier this year.

I can't deny I was really entertained all the way through but I had no idea there was going to be about five minutes of "normalcy" before another song kicks in. I think there's around 14 songs in total.

Part of the magic is what is achieved on stage for sequences like the DeLorean driving around trying to get up to speeds of 88mph. I feel some of that would be lost in a transition to film because, in a way, that already exists.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

if the franchise was disney's, it already would have been done, and it wouldn't have taken til 2021 to get it on stage in the first place, either.

[-] jbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

I generally dislike musicals (with some exceptions like Dancer in the Dark and Moulin Rouge!), but the Back to the Future franchise seems like a bad fit for a musical.

More so than most franchises, Back to the Future feels very tied to the zeitgeist of its time (80s to early 90s).

Then again, they made Joker 2 a musical (I recently found out about this and had to double check that this wasn't a joke).

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