Michael J. Fox Says The Search Is On For Marty McFly's Lost Guitar From Back to the Future

Michael J. Fox and Gibson person officially launched a hunt for the guitar Marty McFly played successful the Enchantment Under the Sea creation country successful the beloved movie Back to the Future.

“We request your help, we’re trying to find the guitar I played successful Back to the Future,” Fox told fans successful a video released connected YouTube to enactment the search. “It’s determination mislaid successful the space-time continuum, oregon it’s successful immoderate teamster’s garage.”

Gibson, which made the Cherry Red ES-345 guitar Fox played successful the 1985 blackbuster, besides released a “wanted” benignant poster that asks: “Have You Seen This Guitar?”

Have you seen this guitar? Image credit: Gibson TV / YouTube.

Alongside Fox, co-stars Lea Thompson (Lorraine Baines-McFly) and Christopher Lloyd (Emmett Brown) encouraged fans to nonstop immoderate tips they mightiness person to a website the marque had acceptable up oregon to telephone a extremity line. Additionally, Huey Lewis, whose euphony is famously featured successful the film, besides made an quality successful the video.

Ultimately, the hunt for the axe volition beryllium featured successful an upcoming documentary the institution is producing called Lost to the Future.

“We’ve been looking into leads and rumors for a agelong time, and arsenic you tin imagine, we’re talking 40 years ago, truthful memories fade,” the film’s director, Doc Crotzer, precocious told The Hollywood Reporter. “We weren’t successful the epoch of integer trails, oregon of receipts and things similar that. There are conflicting reports too. You tin find astir arsenic galore antithetic rumors arsenic you tin people.”

Gibson purposefully initiated the hunt for the guitar, which has been missing for 40 years, this twelvemonth to coincide with the film’s 40th anniversary.

Speaking of Back to the Future, Bob Gale, 1 of the screenwriters of the Robert Zemeckis-directed Back to the Future trilogy, precocious insisted determination volition “never” beryllium different Back to the Future… anything.

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 Gale 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.’"

Image credit: Gibson TV / YouTube.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.