# Back to the Future IV may (or may not) be coming in ‘26 {It's a fake, no further need to post that it is a fake}} **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 27, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804 "2024-09-27T19:03:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/1 "2024-09-27T19:03:21Z")
There are some pretty flashy previews for a 2026 release of Back to the Future, Part 4, starring Tom Holland and directed by Steven Spielberg. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Jg4wlkX3cyg/maxresdefault.jpg "BACK TO THE FUTURE 4 | Teaser Trailer (2026) | Tom Holland & Michael J. Fox Concept") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg4wlkX3cyg) There are cameos from the original cast, but this is one of those new generation things; I gather that Holland plays Fox’s kid (also named Marty). As I watch previews, it feels half way between a reboot and a sequel. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Uus3MqeunSw/maxresdefault.jpg "BACK TO THE FUTURE 4 – Trailer (2024) Tom Holland | Universal Pictures (HD)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uus3MqeunSw) I’m sure it will be nostalgic; this feels like marketing aimed right at Gen Xers, who grew up with the original trilogy. It’d be nice if they at least explored some new timelines, although at this point it might be fair to say that the franchise should remain dormant: Being it back in video games, but not on screen. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/2 "2024-09-27T19:08:37Z")
The reason for my ambivalent title is because I’m actually not sure if this is real. I _think_ this is actually in the works, but part of me wonders if this isn’t some sort of internet invention. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/3 "2024-09-27T19:13:03Z")
Easy enough to find out by going directly to the studio and actors supposedly involved. This one looks to be fan-created deepfake involving reused music and scenes from other movies. Your opening picture shows Tom Holland’s face over someone else’s body and a much younger Michael. J. Fox. The first post in the second trailer tells you where it was cribbed from. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/4 "2024-09-27T19:17:33Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Easy enough to find out by going directly to the studio and actors supposedly involved. Well, the lack of confirmation certainly bothered me, but I was fooled by the use of trademarks like Amblin Entertainment. I had meant to include my disclaimers in the OP. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/5 "2024-09-27T19:19:09Z")
I think fan-made non-profit concept films can get away with this. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/6 "2024-09-27T19:20:13Z")
I kind of hope it’s not real, because it’s probably going to be awful. (And Tom Holland is 28 years old; would he still be playing a teenager?) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/7 "2024-09-27T19:21:21Z")
The cool part is this was already filmed in 2108 as a part of a nostalgia wave about the 23th Century. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/8 "2024-09-27T19:24:03Z")
A lot of those are just clips from other movies. I recognized a clip from Spiderman. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/9 "2024-09-27T19:24:04Z")
Only in 47% of the known realities, though. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/10 "2024-09-27T19:25:15Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > (And Tom Holland is 28 years old; would he still be playing a teenager?) Michael J Fox was 28 when filming BttF 2 and 3. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/11 "2024-09-27T19:27:48Z")
I don’t think Tom Holland aged as well as Fox did. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/12 "2024-09-27T19:33:46Z")
You know, those films were fun. But IMHO they are hardly as great as people think. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/13 "2024-09-28T00:13:03Z")
I’d watch a film about what happened to the [other Marty(s)](https://youtu.be/rcj5DJVvvTk?si=9mYQkRDOnxpMOWMr), written and directed by Richard Kelly. This trailer is fan-made deepfake garbage. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/14 "2024-09-28T03:55:37Z")
This trailer doesn’t even look good. It’s obviously fake faces and dubbed over dialogue. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/15 "2024-09-28T04:15:22Z")
Robert Zemeckis and Robert Gale (the co-creators of the Back to the Future franchise) have publicly, vehemently stated that there will never be another BttF movie while they are still alive. And, what’s more, Michael J. Fox agrees with them. [https://screenrant.com/tback-to-the-future-reboot-reasons-prevent/](https://screenrant.com/tback-to-the-future-reboot-reasons-prevent/) ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/16 "2024-09-28T06:47:08Z")
Fox and Ralph Macchio are the poster boys of 80’s teen stars that were actually already old enough to be fathers of school kids when their franchise was still current. ---
**Author:** ![FlikTheBlue](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fliktheblue/32/10972_2.png) [@FlikTheBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlikTheBlue)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/17 "2024-09-28T13:31:09Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > You know, those films were fun. > > But IMHO they are hardly as great as people think. IMHO the original was great, part III was fun, but the dystopian 2015 where Biff is in charge ruins part II. And I’m glad this is just some fan made garbage and not real. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/18 "2024-09-28T13:58:45Z")
've always been happy with Part II, precisely because of the change in tone compared to the two other films. They are all essential, even though some are somewhat better than others. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2024, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/19 "2024-09-28T15:10:58Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > You know, those films were fun. > > But IMHO they are hardly as great as people think. The sequels tried too hard to include references and in-jokes. ---
**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:** [September 28, 2024, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804/20 "2024-09-28T22:13:56Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The sequels tried too hard to include references and in-jokes. But they were all to keep the whole trilogy as a closed storyline. Everything that happens in them has a point, and the interconnectedness of them all is not only fun and plays with the concept of time travel, it’s also what makes them work as a complete finite series. Which is quite an impressive feat when they did not originally intend there to be a sequel at all. All the call backs and references, even down to staging certain shots to match up, were cleverly formulated later. And they learned the lesson from the open-ended ending of part one they included, to make certain there was nothing open-ended by the trilogy’s conclusion. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/back-to-the-future-iv-may-or-may-not-be-coming-in-26-its-a-fake-no-further-need-to-post-that-it-is-a-fake/1007804.md?page=2)