Robert Zemeckis wants to turn Back to the Future: The Musical into a movie

Robert Zemeckis wants to make different Back to nan Future … sort of.

While appearing connected nan Happy Sad Confused podcast pinch Josh Horowitz, Zemeckis revealed that if he were to movie different Back to nan Future, he would want to make Back to nan Future: The Musical.

“I would for illustration to do Back to nan Future: The Musical,” Zemeckis said. “Just for illustration [Mel] Brooks did The Producers. I would emotion to do that. I deliberation that would beryllium great.”

After debuting successful London’s West End, Back to nan Future: The Musical opened connected Broadway successful August 2023. Zemeckis has brought into nan thought of turning nan philharmonic into a movie, but nan workplace isn’t interested.

“I floated that retired [the philharmonic movie] to nan folks astatine Universal,” Zemeckis said. “They don’t get it. So, thing I tin do.

Despite their hesitation connected a musical, Universal is willing successful a reboot aliases Back to nan Future 4. Zemeckis joked that nan workplace begs him “every six months” for different Back to nan Future installment, which he continues to move down.

“You know, we person to say, ‘there are different things that mightiness work.’ Something for illustration that, you know,” Zemeckis explained. “But to remake nan movie aliases to propose that there’s a Back to nan Future 4, it conscionable isn’t successful nan cards.”

Back to nan Future was directed by Zemeckis connected a book he co-wrote pinch Bob Gale. The movie stars Michael J. Fox arsenic Marty McFly, a teen who inadvertently drives a time-traveling DeLorean to 1955, wherever he must activity pinch Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) to return to nan present. Considered 1 of nan top sci-fi movies ever, Back to nan Future was nan highest-grossing movie of 1985 and spawned 2 sequels: 1989’s Back to nan Future Part II and 1990’s Back to nan Future Part III.