The Back to the Future trilogy works perfectly as it is, but as Hollywood hunts for franchises to revive, it’s become a prime candidate for reappraisal. According to director Robert Zemeckis, producers at Universal have been asking about a potential sequel. In a recent appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Zemeckis joked that the studio makes a request “every six months.”.
“Isn’t there anything we can figure out to do here? Isn’t there anything we can do?” the director recalled Universal executives asking. The idea of a fourth film set in the Back to the Future universe is high on the studio’s list of priorities, and that demand does make some sense. It’s been over 30 years since the last Back to the Future film hit theaters, bringing the rollicking time travel saga to a close. Though the adventures of Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) offered a definitive end with Back to the Future Part III, other sci-fi sagas have proven there’s always room for the story to continue.
