There are many great time travel movies, maybe the highest grossing was ‘Terminator 2’, by the wingbuster James Cameron, but ‘Back to the Future’ It is possibly the most iconic in history., and the fact that it’s still one of the highest grossing of all time is quite an achievement, given that it’s almost 40 years old. However, it has never had sequels.
With a collection of 383 Millions, it is simply one of the most profitable in history, and also, inflation has increased a lot in that time. In fact, if it fits, That figure is over a billion dollars.. It is also the one with the most votes on the imdb page. And that’s not to mention that it has the most iconic time machine in the history of the genre– A winged-door DeLorean powered by a plutonium-powered flux capacitor.
Along with the first movie, the next two movies were also box office hits with II grossing $332 million and III $245 million, making it a billion dollar franchise. Why were there never more sequels or remakes? Screenwriter Bob Gale has admitted in an interview that he does not want to revive the sci-fi franchise, despite being offered “a lot of money” to do so.
“If it was about the money, we’d be doing ‘Back to the Future Part IV.’ where you just say, ‘Oh, God, leave him alone.'”
Gale understands that once-in-a-lifetime moments are not easy to replicate, such as the big graduation scene where Michael J. Fox plays the guitar, which was a time of great pressure for the actor. In an interview with Empire magazine, he said:
“When I did the Johnny B. Goode scene, I had a great guitar teacher who taught me how to play. I told Bob (Zemeckis) to cut my hands off whenever he wanted, but he pressured me to do it fucking right. So I had This guy named Paul Hanson, as a teacher, for about four weeks we worked on this piece and at the same time I was working with this choreographer for Madonna.
“I said, ‘I dance like a duck. I don’t know how to dance.’ But what I’d like to do is incorporate all the features, mannerisms and quirks of my favorite guitarists, so a Pete Townshend and Jimi Hendrix windmill or a walk Chuck Berry duck. And we worked through all of that, and he made it flow. It was moments like that when you don’t think, or I’m tired, or I feel under pressure to do this. You just do it and have fun.”