# Back to the Future 4? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707 "2005-12-22T00:15:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/1 "2005-12-22T00:15:17Z")
A blurb in the IMDB Daily briefing. > [@](#): > > Fox Heading ‘Back to the Future’? > > Michael J. Fox is heading Back To The Future for a fourth time-traveling movie. The actor, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, admits he’s in negotiations for a final film in the series - but only if they make his character as old as he is in real life. The former Spin City star wants to take over Christopher Lloyd’s eccentric scientist character, Doc, in the sequel. He tells movie website [Moviehole.net](http://Moviehole.net), “The only way it would work would be if I played Doc. I’m 44-years-old now and I’m not interested in running around on skateboards! I think after 1, 2 and 3 we all kind of felt we had done it. And I think if they did it again now they would do it with a younger cast and just do a different realisation of it, which would be fun.” I wouldn’t mind seeing Fox mentor the next generation of time travelers, but this sounds like a remake. That seems unneccessary as the original is still very watchable. Can you believe the first one came out 20 years ago? ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/2 "2005-12-22T00:28:35Z")
> [@middleman](#): > > A blurb in the IMDB Daily briefing. > > I wouldn’t mind seeing Fox mentor the next generation of time travelers, but this sounds like a remake. > > That seems unneccessary as the original is still very watchable. > > Can you believe the first one came out 20 years ago? Still one of my favorites. Too bad we can’t send MJF into the future for a cure. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/3 "2005-12-22T00:33:30Z")
I think this would be a mistake. Everything fit together so nicely in the trilogy. You add a fourth film to the mix, you’re just gonna fuck up the space-time comtinuum. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/4 "2005-12-22T01:21:45Z")
> [@Happy Lendervedder](#): > > you’re just gonna fuck up the space-time comtinuum. You mean, one of those things that could destroy the universe? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/5 "2005-12-22T02:10:18Z")
44 would still be younger than the doc was in the first movie (unless my memory is off.) So you could perfectly well have it be a prequel to the other three. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/6 "2005-12-22T02:42:54Z")
but why would they want to? they’ve been to 1955, anchored in 1985 and visited 2015 (which ain’t so far off me buckos - but I bet we STILL won’t have flying cars by then). As **middleman** and **Happy Lendervedder** said, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/7 "2005-12-22T04:17:40Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > but why would they want to? Fox is ill. Perhaps he needs the money. BTTF are the only films I enjoyed him in. Well, maybe _Mars Attacks_. I really disliked his TV shows. Maybe another BTTF film would be the best way for an ill actor to make money without investing time in a TV series. I doubt that he knows or cares about my opinion. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/8 "2005-12-22T05:43:02Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > As **middleman** and **Happy Lendervedder** said, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it Back to the Future 4: The Search for More Money. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/9 "2005-12-22T05:43:31Z")
From [Wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_the_Future_Part_IV). FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/10 "2005-12-22T06:12:15Z")
> [@middleman](#): > > Can you believe the first one came out 20 years ago? Yeah, I can’t get over the fact that we’re now closer to 2015 than 1985. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_MuD\_PhuD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/2bfe46/32.png) [@Elmer\_MuD\_PhuD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_MuD_PhuD)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/11 "2005-12-22T06:15:50Z")
Hmm, I don’t know if MJF could play Doc, or anyone other than Marty for that matter. He still looks too much like he did 20 years ago. It could work if they anchored the script in the 2015 we haven’t seen yet; the one set into motion by him backing out of the drag race. He could play a Doc like character, sort of obsessed with reconstructing the time machine to change something in the past, or to see real-Doc again (it wouldn’t be BTTF with out Christopher Lloyd for at least a few minutes). Given his exposure to time travel, it wouldn’t be absurd to think he gets interested in physics; and even if he can’t find funding for the project, it looks like his family is well on their way to being rich, what with George McFly’s writing career. Interesting, I can’t wait to see how much they surprise/disappoint me. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/12 "2005-12-22T07:08:12Z")
> [@Elmer MuD/PhuD](#): > > Hmm, I don’t know if MJF could play Doc, or anyone other than Marty for that matter. He still looks too much like he did 20 years ago. It could work if they anchored the script in the 2015 we haven’t seen yet; the one set into motion by him backing out of the drag race. He could play a Doc like character, sort of obsessed with reconstructing the time machine to change something in the past, or to see real-Doc again (it wouldn’t be BTTF with out Christopher Lloyd for at least a few minutes). > Given his exposure to time travel, it wouldn’t be absurd to think he gets interested in physics; and even if he can’t find funding for the project, it looks like his family is well on their way to being rich, what with George McFly’s writing career. > Interesting, I can’t wait to see how much they surprise/disappoint me. To be clear for future readers of this thread, the wiki link provided in another post above indicates that it is _not_ true that MJF would be playing Doc in BTTF4. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/13 "2005-12-22T14:52:43Z")
> [@Frylock](#): > > To be clear for future readers of this thread, the wiki link provided in another post above indicates that it is _not_ true that MJF would be playing Doc in BTTF4. > > -FrL- and that “wiki” entry provides a link to the actual interview ---
**Author:** ![BluePitbull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e9bcb4/32.png) [@BluePitbull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BluePitbull)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/14 "2005-12-22T15:30:33Z")
I remember the original trilogy. Seeing how it is close to 2006, some of the “predictions” for 2015 will be wrong. So would they re-do 2015? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/15 "2005-12-22T16:11:48Z")
> [@BluePitbull](#): > > So would they re-do 2015? It is obviously a different time line. (Insert joke here about Biff being elected to public office depending upon you party.) -Carnivorous Plant, an equal opportunity humorist. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/16 "2005-12-22T19:50:19Z")
So much wishy-washiness in that Wiki link. They were going to do it in 1997, but then MJF had Parkinsons. They were going to 2 more movies. Now they’re only going to do one. What are they? Chicken? ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/17 "2005-12-22T21:01:14Z")
> [@iamthewalrus(:3=](#): > > So much wishy-washiness in that Wiki link. They were going to do it in 1997, but then MJF had Parkinsons. They were going to 2 more movies. Now they’re only going to do one. > > What are they? Chicken? Ahh, why don’t you make like a tree… ---
**Author:** ![Loopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loopus/32/15343_2.png) [@Loopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopus)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/18 "2005-12-22T21:03:23Z")
> [@iamthewalrus(:3=](#): > > What are they? Chicken? Hey! Nobody… calls the _Back the the Future_ franchise “chicken.” ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/19 "2005-12-22T21:38:04Z")
> [@Loopus](#): > > Hey! Nobody… calls the _Back the the Future_ franchise “chicken.” a chicken franchise? would that be crispy fried, or tender rotisserie? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/20 "2005-12-22T22:16:23Z")
Eh, you’re as funny as a screen door on a battleship. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707.md?page=2)