Back in Time Page #11

- How the was that?

It was clunky, very

clunky. It was not so attractive,

If we can keep

taking care of each other,

And allowing this extra time

and energy to dare to wonder.

It's a great time to be alive.

Wouldn't trade it

for any other time in history.

Yeah, well, I'm not gonna do

"back to the future" anymore.

Three is enough. You know,

three is a good number.

After Bob and I made

the third movie,

We actually had t-Shirts made up

That had "back to the future iv"

With a circle and slash

through the roman numeral four.

We'd said what we wanted to say. We'd done

what we wanted to do with the characters.

And if we went back

to the well another time,

It'd be kind of

an act of prostitution, really.

Three is a dramatic number.

You know, it's the trinity.

It's the three-Act structure.

Four is a boring number.

You know, it's bland. It's even.

Sometimes,

I'm asked if they ever came up with a iv,

"Back to the future iv,"

would I still do it?

You bet.

Totally.

Oh, I'll do I, ii, iii, iv, v,

whatever it...

what could be bad, you know?

Somebody might do it.

I mean, maybe somebody after I'm dead...

universal could maybe...

or if my kids...

if my kids need to make money

And wanna have universal,

you know, do the movie

With some new concept

or something,

I guess they'll do it.

But it's nothing

I'm interested in.

Yes, people keep asking

for more.

So, we did the telltale game,

It pretty nicely captures the

energy of the movies, I think.

And Bob and I had started kicking around,

oh, almost 10 years ago,

The idea of putting

"back to the future"

On Broadway, or in the west end, or

someplace to do a musical production of it.

I think all of us want,

First and foremost, to adhere

to the hippocratic oath,

So we're very... you know, we're looking

very carefully at how to proceed with this,

Because "back to the future"

deserves the best we know...

you know, the best we can do.

And we wanna really make sure

That what we do in that capacity

Adds to, again, the legacy

of "back to the future."

What about all that talk

About screwing up future events,

the space-Time continuum?

Well, I figured, what the hell?

There comes a time

in every child's life

When he truly understands

that adults were once kids,

That his parents

were once children.

Seven, eight, nine,

ten years old, it clicks.

You realize, "oh, my god.

I'm gonna grow up to be an adult,

"Which means that my adult

parents were once children too."

the idea that

your parents were once young

And had the same dreams that you

are gonna have or have right now,

And that we're all just people,

and we all still feel young at heart.

And that's what

"back to the future" is about,

That sudden realization,

That idea that

your infallible parents,

Who you think are infallible

when you're a little kid,

They were gawky teenagers,

And fumbled around in a car, and didn't

know what the hell they were doing.

And that resonates

through all generations

And through every culture

in the world.

The appeal to

"back to the future" for me, of course,

But also for an audience, is the fact that

it was such an interesting look at...

I guess you'd call it

wish fulfillment,

Which is who wouldn't wanna go

back in time and fix something?

I think when George McFly has

the courage to punch biff at that moment,

I think that moment

was so perfectly constructed.

I think we all wonder

about that.

If we would have done something

different at one moment,

Would it have changed our whole lives

for the better or for the worse?

Now, 30 years later,

you look back at a project like this,

And you try to remember just what

your part in all of this was.

And it's just

a pretty small part.

I mean, yeah,

the car is featured in all of these scenes,

And it's used,

and it's cherished,

And plastic models

are made of it.

It's nice being a part of that.

Well, the movie is just...

you know, the movie defines the taste

of buttered popcorn. It really does.

We actually use the same logic

When we go to see movies

as we do walking into a casino.

We largely know

we're gonna get ripped off,

But the chance is worth it.

If it were any other industry,

we would have long ago shut it down

And sued everybody.

Because if it was cans of tuna,

The equivalent would be like every

third can had a human finger in it.

Movies are so bad now.

And they're allowed to be,

Because that's how good

"back to the future" was.

It's just

one of those things, man.

You know, it's one of

those things that worked.

It just worked.

So how far ahead are you going?

About 30 years.

It's a nice, round number.

Look me up

when you get there, all right?

I guess I'll be about 47.

I will.

- Take care.

- You, too.

All right.

Bye bye, Einie.

Oh, and watch that re-Entry.

It's a little bumpy.

You bet.

To the future!

- All right, Marty, you all set?

- Yeah, yeah, go!

There are so many places I would

like to see if I had a time machine.

Every era, I would love to see.

And I am so lucky.

I have been able to

a lot on film.

Boy, if I can go

anywhere in time,

I would go back to maybe

the MGM auction of 1970,

And I would hopefully be able

to go back there

With 10 or $20,000

in my back pocket.

And I'd buy all the stuff that I keep

hearing over the years went for nothing.

Well, it depends

what the time travel rules are.

You know, I mean...

I guess if I could

only go one way,

I think about 10,000 years in

the future might be interesting.

I probably wanna go

into the future

About four and a half weeks

right now.

Because I'm writing

on a film right now,

And I'm working really hard.

And about four and a half weeks from now,

I think I'll be finished.

I don't know

if you've ever seen "Henry V,"

Olivier's "Henry V."

All the backstage activity,

People throwing things from

the groundlings who'd paid...

the re-Writes going on.

It would have been kind of cool to go back,

be an observer of that today.

I was doing a TV movie

with woody Allen,

And we were talking,

as always happens to me on sets and stuff,

So we were in a full-Fledged discussion

about where we would go in time.

And woody Allen was normally

preoccupied with other things,

And so someone summoned up the

courage to ask him where he would go,

And he said, "no time before

the invention of penicillin."

I always thought that

was a good rule of thumb.

But I would think...

Sometime before car alarms.

I think I would rather go back

in time than forward in time.

Because I think

when you go forward in time,

It's gonna be disastrous.

There's your 10-Year-Old,

horny self

That remembers that in the '80s,

women were the most beautiful.

When I think about femininity,

and sexuality, and music,

And all the things that make a

little kid squirm and feel alive,

I think of the '80s.

I'm a big in the moment guy. I like

right now. I've always liked right now.

I've never yearned

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