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Interview: 'Back to the Future' Writer Bob Gale (Full interview)
Screen Junkies: Bob Gale Interview

‘Back To The Future’ Memorabilia: Check Out Bob Gale’s Mr. Fusion Lamp! » MTV Movies Blog
'Back To The Future' Memorabilia: Check Out Bob Gale's Mr. Fusion Lamp!

Bit about the game and sequels.

SJ: Will this video game they’re making at least give me sort of a fix for a sequel?

BG: Telltale is doing this computer game and they’re all fans of the movies and I’m consulting with them. It’s going to start in 1986 about six months after the events of Back to the Future. A new adventure with Marty and Doc and it will be in the spirit of Back to the Future. It’s not Back to the Future IV but it’s sort of a riff on it. We’ll try to recapture some of the spirit of the movies in this game.

SJ: Have you done some writing on the story of it?

BG: I haven’t done any writing but I have steered the guys doing the game in particular directions and kept them from going down certain paths that I thought we ought not go down.

SJ: Robert talks about his idea of a trilogy versus a series of four, which makes artistic sense, but I thought could this be a good use of his motion capture technology to do Back to the Future IV? Maybe Michael J. Fox could still play Marty, filming it in short segments he’s comfortable with.

BG: Again, the problem is that the bar is set so high, people are going to be disappointed no matter what we do. As good as we might be able to make it, there’s going to be people who are disappointed. Back to the Future doesn’t belong to us anymore. That happened when we did Part II. It belongs to everybody so everybody feels their opinion ought to be taken into account in what we do.

SJ: Isn’t it nice that people have come around to II though.

BG: Yes, it is.

SJ: I always thought it was more interesting to go back into the first movie, not so much the future.

BG: That’s the coolest idea we did, yeah. Bob Zemeckis deserves all the credit for coming up with that idea.
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Here is the answer to something which has always bothered some fans.

SJ: One of the controversies of the sequels was Marty’s sudden obsession with being called “chicken.” Where did that come from?

BG: Well, we realized Part I is really George McFly’s story. Even though Marty’s the central character, George is the character that goes through a character arc. For another movie, we had to have somebody go through some character arc. We came up with something for Marty and we came up with something for Doc. We sort of alluded to the idea that Marty has a little bit of hotheadedness in him in the first one because he’s always ready to do at it with Biff. We just said, “That’s already in there. Let’s turn the volume up on that a bit and make that his real character flaw that had to be corrected in the course of this adventure.”
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Seems like a valid explanation, which I had already assumed and that character trait felt natural. And it never really bothered me that much.
 
14 Things from Back to the Future II That Actually Came True, and 4 That Haven't... Yet
14 Things from Back to the Future II That Actually Came True, and 4 That Haven't... Yet

‘Back to the Future’ Creator Bob Gale On Easter Eggs, Eric Stoltz, Sequels And The 25th Anniversary » MTV Movies Blog
'Back to the Future' Creator Bob Gale On Easter Eggs, Eric Stoltz, Sequels And The 25th Anniversary

Interview: Back To The Future Writer Bob Gale Talks Mr. Fusion And Marty McFly Jr.
Interview: Back To The Future Writer Bob Gale Talks Mr. Fusion And Marty McFly Jr.

Star Trek Christopher Lloyd Interview
Christopher Lloyd Interview
 
Hey, I got an idea.........

lets see how many different BTTF threads we can start that have
nothing but a butt load of links in them.....

What... someones already done that. Dang..............:rolleyes
 
knightdriver2001 said:
lets see how many different BTTF threads we can start that have
nothing but a butt load of links in them.....
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Gee... which is why I am putting all these them under a single thread, except for the Blu-ray press conference which was its own thread.

Couple of more links below which you can gladly avoid.

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/26/happy-marty-mcfly-day-2/
Happy Marty McFly Day!

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/39846449#39846449
‘Back to the Future’ cast reunites on Today Show
 
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Hey, Vivek-

Do you like Back to the Future? ;)

Thx for posting the links! Are there any in-store coupons to print to use on today's release? I didn't buy it this morning because it always happens that an online coupon comes up after the fact, ha!
 
In Defense of "Back to the Future Part II" - Movies - News - IFC.com
In Defense of "Back to the Future Part II"


niennumb1 said:
Thx for posting the links! Are there any in-store coupons to print to use on today's release? I didn't buy it this morning because
it always happens that an online coupon comes up after the fact, ha!
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Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy Blu-ray at Newegg coupons and deals at Dealighted
Not in-store coupons, but found the above. It's about $6 lower than Amazon's $48 price.

Newegg.com - Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy (Blu-ray) Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Mary Steenburgen, Lea Thompson, Thomas F. Wilson
 
Back to the future starts strong but the minute they copped out and ran back to what they already did I check out. They promised us THE FUTURE. An entire movie of Marty running around in 2015 - flying thanks to his shoes - maybe taking his son's place in school, giving Jennifer something more to do than just sleep - If I saw a trailer and Jennifer was hanging out with her own daughter, gossiping while Marty's son achieved everything his father wanted but couldn't do -- it woould have been better. "Biffco" -- gimmie a break
 
Hole Cast : Crispin Glover (Back to the Future) | Moviehole
Crispin Glover is the guest on the Hole Cast podcast this week - he talks openly about the whole "Back to the Future 2" situation/lawsuit, as well as his upcoming live show.

They talk about BTTF after 38 minutes. Very interesting stuff, good to see he is now so forthcoming to discuss that whole situation in such detail, including what amount they offered him. I wonder how Bob Gale will react to all this.
 
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