Michael J. Fox Says a ‘Back to the Future’ Reboot Doesn’t Need to Exist, but ‘Do What You Want. I Got Paid Already’
variety.comBrent Lang Executive Editor If Hollywood ever opts to reboot “Back to the Future” without the original cast, Michael J. Fox says he’s at peace with the decision. “I’m not fanatical,” Fox told Variety for a recent cover story on his life and career. “Do what you want.
It’s your movie. I got paid already.” But that doesn’t mean he thinks it’s a good idea. Fox also believes that Robert Zemeckis, the trilogy’s director and writer, and his co-writer, Bob Gale, wouldn’t be down with it either. “I don’t think it needs to be,” Fox added. “I think Bob and Bob have been really smart about that.
I don’t think it needs rebooting because are you going to clarify something? You’re going to find a better way to tell the story?
I doubt it.” So was Fox ever approached about returning to Hill Valley as the time-traveling Marty McFly after the series wrapped up with 1990’s “Back to the Future Part III”? “I’m sure somebody thought about it,” Fox tells Variety. “But I was in the early stages of Parkinson’s at that point, so I don’t know that I would have wanted to take that on.
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