Thought this was an interesting, relevant development. Re: an interview Back to the Future producer Frank Marshall gave with Collider.com:
MARSHALL: We never talked about it. Those three movies stand alone. I’m so thrilled that Zemeckis is back in the live-action world. When you look at those movies, they’re stunningly made. The direction and the writing in those movies, and Michael J. Fox; it’s just fabulous. I’m a huge fan of just having those three movies just be as they are, and not try to do anything else.
If they came to you about doing a reissue of the original in 3D would you be against it?
MARSHALL: No, I kind of like it the way it is. I say let’s leave things as they are. Let’s leave it the way we made it then with the technology we had. If I was teaching a screenwriting class that would be the bible. That would be the script that we studied. Because every single thing is set up and paid off in the ending in a brilliant way. The script is just phenomenal.
There were some Back to the Future sneakers that came out recently. Did you end up getting a pair?
MARSHALL: I do have a pair.
Was it difficult for you to get that pair, or was it just a gift in the mail?
MARSHALL: No, I was a part of the whole thing. I have to give credit to Nike. One of the fun stories, the two guys that came down to design that shoe were Mark Parker and Tinker Hatfield. And we took Tinker Hatfield’s design of the shoe. Over the years Tinker stayed with designing that shoe and making it a reality. He’s still at Nike, and Nike has backed the design of that shoe. That’s what happened here, where they all came together. And that’s because the guy who lost, Mark Parker, he’s the CEO. So they came to me and said we’d like to do this for Michael J Fox and his foundation. We don’t quite have the power lacing down, but we have this idea of how we’ll get in front of that. Which is we’ll do this sort of lost footage thing, where doc brown comes in and he thinks it’s 2015, but it’s not. And by 2015 well have the laces.
So they still think that could happen?
MARSHALL: Yeah, absolutely.
Those sneakers were something that I wanted to get. They were a little expensive and a little bit hard to get. Do you think there’s the chance that there will be another pair down the road that will be more cost effective for the average person to get?
MARSHALL: I think there might be.
Maybe in 2015?
MARSHALL: Yeah, in 2015 you might have the special pair, and the not-so-special pair but they look like them. I think that the real goal of this iteration was raising money for Michael’s foundation.
I’m all in favor of raising money for his foundation as well; I’m saying maybe they release a lower price version.
MARSHALL: Yeah, well it’s sort of what they did with Lance and his stuff. But, yeah, I think that it was so popular, that by 2015 there’s going to be a lot of different version of them.
Since you have the ability to call them, please pass on fans interest.
MARSHALL: I will.
And say, “The people who cannot afford the 2,000 dollars-”
MARSHALL: That was kind of wild, to watch that.
It was a lot of money.
MARSHALL: You can come by and see my pair if you want, visit them.
Have you ever worn them in public?
MARSHALL: No, no. They’re in a glass case in my office. They had this special thing where they came up and they light them. It was pretty cool.
