Back to the Future star and beloved Hollywood legend Michael J. Fox has an idea for a remake — a remake that he believes will certainly happen eventually. Speaking with Entertainment Tonight, Fox offered a brief pitch for a Back to the Future reboot, positing that you could gender-swap the main character of Marty McFly.
Fox’s suggestion that a Back to the Future remake should cast a woman as the main character is sure to annoy the usual suspects. But are they really going to argue with him? Changing the character of Marty to a woman (maybe even crafting more of a sequel by following one of Marty’s relatives?) would certainly give the time-traveling antics a new perspective. But while Michael J. Fox feels that a return to Back to the Future is near-enough an inevitability, is it really something that fans want to see?
“I actually had this thought that if they did the movie again, they should do it with a girl as Marty. There’s something about [the franchise] that connects with people on every level. I just feel like it will come around again.”
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It certainly is not something that Back to the Future writer Bob Gale wants to see, with the scribe recently explaining why Back to the Future 4 will likely never happen.
Michael J. Fox Only Recently Understood the Love for Back to the Future
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Released in 1985 and directed by Robert Zemeckis, Back to the Future follows high schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and his unorthodox friendship with eccentric scientist Emmett “Doc” Brown (Christopher Lloyd), who has been busy working on a time machine. Accidentally zapped back into the 1950s, Marty inadvertently interferes with the budding romance of his now-teenaged parents. Our hero must now reunite his parents-to-be, lest he ceases to exist in the 1980s.
Back to the Future spawned two sequels, Back to the Future Part II in 1989 and Back to the Future Part III in 1990, with the franchise now considered one of the greatest movie trilogies of all time. A feeling that Michael J. Fox has only recently come to understand.
Michael J. Fox and co-star Christopher Lloyd have reunited several times over the last few years, but don’t expect to see a Back to the Future remake or sequel any time soon.
“I love it and I only recently have been able to embrace it in a way. Not that I rejected it before, or wasn’t proud of it, but I didn’t fully get how much people related to it, how much it meant to them.”
