Still no Back to the Future 4 for Robert Zemeckis

The director talks about how he resists the sirens of Universal, again and again.

Thirty-five years after the release of Back to the Future 3 in theaters, Marty McFly still hasn't set foot in a DeLorean again. And for good reason: Back to the Future 4that's no!

Robert Zemeckis still says today that he refuses any extension of his trilogy. No sequel, no remake, no prequel, no spin-off, nothing! And it’s not for lack of suggestions.

“Universal talks to me about it every six months”laughs the filmmaker, interviewed by Josh Horowitz, in the Happy Sad Confused podcast.

“No, I'm exaggerating“, he tempers, before confirming despite everything that the Hollywood studio – which produced the saga at the time and also its latest films, like Here – often asks him to restart Back to the Future :

“They ask me: isn’t there something we could do? And I have to respond politely, saying that different things could work or something like that… But in reality, doing a remake or a Back to the Future 4 is just not an option!

A decade ago, Robert Zemeckis suggested that he and the screenwriter Bob Gale had a right of veto over the franchise : “That can't happen until Bob and I are dead. At that point, I'm sure they'll try to do it, unless one of our heirs can stop them.”