'It's Just Fine the Way It Is' — Back to the Future Screenwriter Insists There Will 'Never' Be a Prequel, Spinoff, or Back to the Future 4

There volition “never” beryllium different Back to the Future… anything, its screenwriter has insisted.

Speculation ramped up aft the co-creators of Cobra Kai, the TV bid follow-up to the Karate Kid movies, discussed a imaginable Back to the Future TV series.

But Bob Gale, 1 of the screenwriters of the Robert Zemeckis-directed Back to the Future trilogy, has insisted determination is nary aboriginal for the franchise.

“I don't cognize wherefore they support talking astir that!” helium told People. “I mean, bash they deliberation that if they accidental it capable times, we're going to really bash it?”

“I mean, it's similar they cognize successful each interrogation radical say, ‘Oh Bob, erstwhile is determination going to beryllium a Back to the Future 4?’ Never. ‘When is determination going to beryllium a prequel?’ Never. ‘When is determination going to beryllium a spinoff?’ Never. It's conscionable good the mode it is. It's not perfect, but arsenic Bob Zemeckis utilized to say, ‘It's cleanable enough.’ ”

Of course, this is Bob Gale talking here, and the mightiness of Hollywood, if it was truthful inclined, would astir apt person the last accidental were it to greenlight a Back to the Future revival. But enforcement shaper Steven Spielberg would request to springiness it a thumbs up, and according to Gale, that’s unlikely.

“If the juggernaut of firm America oregon firm planetary mishigas says, ‘If you don't hold to this, we're going to termination your children,’ alright, well, no, we don't privation our children killed,’ ” helium joked.

“But Steven Spielberg, of course, he's got to motion disconnected connected it too. And Steven, conscionable similar Steven won't let different E.T., helium wholly respects the information that we don't privation immoderate much Back to the Future. He gets it and ever stood down that. And convey you, Steven.”

Gale’s comments present are successful keeping with his erstwhile responses to questions astir a imaginable Back to the Future revival. In February, Gale issued a harsh connection for fans hoping for a Back to the Future 4: "People ever say, ‘When are you going to bash Back to the Future 4?' And we say, ‘F**k you.' "

The archetypal arrived successful 1985 and sees precocious schoolhouse pupil Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) accidentally sent backmost successful clip by the eccentric idiosyncratic Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd). It went connected to go 1 of the astir iconic sci-fi films of each time, and spawned 2 sequels.

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