# 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:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/21 "2005-12-23T01:03:29Z")
May be a whoosh, but that Sarah Michelle Gellar link was big news back when it was announced. I believe I even read that they had Christopher Lloyd signed to a contract. ---
**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 23, 2005, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/22 "2005-12-23T01:31:03Z")
Have any actors died or become otherwise unavailable besides the unfortunate Wendie Jo Sperber? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/23 "2005-12-23T01:32:30Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Have any actors died or become otherwise unavailable besides the unfortunate Wendie Jo Sperber? I think you can safely count out Crispin Glover. ---
**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 23, 2005, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/24 "2005-12-23T01:36:42Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > I think you can safely count out Crispin Glover. Because he’s playing [Grendel?](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000417/) 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Carnage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/max_carnage/32/12775_2.png) [@Max\_Carnage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Carnage)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/25 "2005-12-23T03:20:12Z")
Also disputed by [CHUD.com](http://www.chud.com/index.php?type=news&id=5446) ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/26 "2005-12-23T04:03:07Z")
Does Fox want to actually play Doc Brown or have Marty McFLy _be_ the eccentric scientist? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![HPL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@HPL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HPL)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/27 "2005-12-23T08:27:08Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Eh, you’re as funny as a screen door on a battleship. That’s a Screen Door on a Submarine! ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/28 "2005-12-23T09:24:49Z")
> [@HPL](#): > > That’s a Screen Door on a Submarine! Make like a tree and don’t get whooshed. ---
**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 23, 2005, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/29 "2005-12-23T14:59:33Z")
> [@DanBlather](#): > > Make like a tree and > don’t get whooshed. Then you self-whooshed, because HPL quoted the follow-up line reasonably accurately. ---
**Author:** ![middleman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@middleman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/middleman)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/30 "2005-12-23T15:20:20Z")
> [@Bryan Ekers](#): > > Then you self-whooshed, because HPL quoted the follow-up line reasonably accurately. Hey, you! Get your damn hands off of him! ---
**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 23, 2005, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/31 "2005-12-23T15:43:23Z")
I think he took your wallet. ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/32 "2005-12-23T15:49:21Z")
In an interview, MJF made it clear that working on _Spin City_ was difficult for him, and that was well before his symptoms forced him to publicly admit he was ill. I didn’t realize that he had been diagnosed _before_ the show even started, and that he basically knew that if he was ever going to do another show, it had to be **right then** , before he was no longer able to work. I’m not sure he could shoot (and carry) an entire film now. It’s disappointing and a loss to the rest of us. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/33 "2005-12-23T18:18:16Z")
As I never tire of reminding people: The IMDb has two news pages. StudioBriefing is put together from legitimate Los-Angeles-based entertainment sources, and is generally reliable. WENN Celebrity Briefing is a wire service driven by British tabloids, and is composed of rumor, innuendo, and outright fabrication. They get it wrong often enough that IMDb used to have a disclaimer at the bottom of the page: “we have nothing to do with this, we just subscribe, we make no warranty as to accuracy, if you have a problem don’t call us call WENN,” etc. It’s not there now; not sure what happened. But it used to be. Point is, if it’s on StudioBriefing, it’s legit. If it’s on WENN, it’s at least partly and perhaps entirely bullshit. This was on WENN. It’s a deliberate misreading of out-of-context statements done solely to generate a few more minutes of material to dump into the unceasingly ravenous maw of the celebrity-obsessed public. There’ll be another one on Monday, when a story Renee Zellweger tells about having a painful rock in her shoe is distorted into a medical nightmare involving the emergency amputation of her leg above the knee. Grumble grumble… ---
**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 23, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/34 "2005-12-23T18:44:57Z")
I suppose that you regard this penchant for confusing honest folks with the facts as fighting ignorance, hmmmm? ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2005, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707/35 "2005-12-23T23:42:07Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > If it’s on WENN, it’s at least partly and perhaps entirely bullshit. Buy barley futures. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-4/336707.md?page=1)