In a recent interview, actor Michael J. Fox spoke about future plans for the Back to the Future film trilogy. When asked if he would agree to a reboot of the films he starred in in 1985, 1989 and 1990, he said he was fine with it: “I’m not a fanatic. Do what you want. It’s your movie. I’ve already been paid.”
But: Fox doesn’t think it’s a good idea, as he did in his Conversation with Variety clarified, and believes that Robert Zemeckis (director and screenwriter of the trilogy), and his co-writer Bob Gale, would not agree.
“Back to the Future”: Would a reboot be a good idea?
“I don’t think it has to be,” Fox explains in the interview. “I think Bob and Bob did it very wisely. I don’t think it needs a reboot because will you tell and clarify something new? Will you find a better way to tell the story? I doubt it.”
When asked if Fox was ever asked to return to Hill Valley as time-travelling Marty McFly, Fox told Variety, “I’m sure someone thought of that. But I was in the early stages of Parkinson’s at the time, so I don’t know if I would have wanted to take on that. Right after ‘Part Three’ did well, there might have been talks about it, but I never got into it.”
Speaking of a possible sequel, Fox added, “I’d love to do a sequel, but I think Bob Zemeckis and [Produzent Steven] Spielberg felt they told the story in the three episodes. But if someone has a brilliant idea that would justify a fourth film, it could happen.”
Michael J. Fox: New documentary about his life and work
In Still, a new documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim, which recently premiered on Apple TV+, Fox takes a look back at Back to the Future, his film and television career, and his dedication to Parkinson’s research. For the cover story of “Variety” magazine, the 61-year-old actor tells of his strokes of fate in recent years: his mother, father-in-law and beloved dog died, he had to fight a series of health problems, many of which were indirectly linked to his Parkinson’s disease -disease related.
Fox also tells in the conversation that he broke his shoulder and had to have it replaced; broke his elbow, his hand, his face, his humerus. Then there is said to have been a spinal operation, which he had to undergo in 2018 to remove a tumor. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1991 when Fox was 29 years old.
Watch the trailer for Still here
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