'Back To The Future' May Be Headed To Broadway

Get your DeLorean ready: "Back to the Future" could be returning -- as a musical.

A representative for writer and director Robert Zemeckis confirmed to The Huffington Post that Zemeckis, co-writer Bob Gale and composer Alan Silvestri are engaged in preliminary creative discussions about the possibility of bringing "Back to the Future" to Broadway.

The original film tells the story of Marty McFly (as played by Michael J. Fox), a high school student sent from 1985 to 1955, where he runs into his parents, accidentally catching the eye of his future mother. The movie was the first in a trilogy that also includes 1989's "Back to the Future Part II" and 1990's "Back to the Future Part III."

No other information regarding when the musical might happen, or who might be cast is yet available. If the musical comes to fruition, it would be only one among a growing crop of recently announced screen-to-stage adaptations. Movies including "Newsies," "Ghost," "Big Fish," "Austin Powers," "Rocky," "The Goonies," and "Dave" are being developed as musicals, or have already hit the stage. Along with "The Goonies," the roster of 1980s films made into musicals includes "Teen Witch," "The Breakfast Club" and "Heathers" -- we're hoping "Sixteen Candles" is next.

Comments

[americanvent]

10:38 AM on 02/08/2012

I think Strictland's "You're a Slacker" number will be a show stopper.

[TheNextVoiceofYouth]

02:56 PM on 02/07/2012

This is heavy. Broadway probably picked the movie for the film's score. They should leave good enough alone.

[Max Shaw]

02:32 PM on 02/06/2012

i would actually watch that probably.

[ludichris212]

03:51 PM on 02/05/2012

I'd rather see "Se7en" as a musical...

[Randi Grogan]

11:41 AM on 02/05/2012

I wish they'd leave classic movies alone, really a muscial? I just can't see Marty and Doc singing and dancing.

[Junior1927]

11:59 PM on 02/04/2012

No Back To The Future Broadway play ever amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley!

[Abel Ferrell]

11:14 PM on 02/04/2012

Ah Broadway, you have the ability to take anything good and make it bad. Well done, once again.

[misse1000]

11:03 PM on 02/04/2012

Ok, some movies you can make into musicals on stage and do them very well (ex. Beauty and the Beast, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the Lion King especially) but then there are others that do not belong on the stage (Spiderman). This is one of them. Please don't ruin it.

What could work: A modern update set in the present (Say, the year is 2012 or 2013 and the kid is sent back to 1982 or 1983) with music up to date, but not called Back to the Future. But a similar storyline could work. Or something with a similar concept about meeting one's parents ass teens. Maybe even a female main character, idk. But not like the movie. We can be more creative, can't we?

Or maybe it should just make like a tree and get out of here (oops, sorry, it's leave, make like a tree and leave. Ya sould like a d----d fool when you say it wrong, ya know)

[MissTake1989]

10:04 PM on 02/04/2012

I'll pass.

Let me know when Weekend at Bernie's comes to Broadway, though...

[cheshirecatgrin]

12:10 AM on 02/05/2012

already did. it was called Lucky Stiff.

[vcgraphics]

09:36 PM on 02/04/2012

I have said this before and I will say it again

Their is no creativity left in the entertainment ind.

This sounds beyond silly

[misse1000]

10:51 PM on 02/04/2012

Agree 100%

[Annika Vecchione]

08:04 PM on 02/04/2012

oh gosh no.

[misse1000]

10:52 PM on 02/04/2012

That was my first thought...

[Mark Van Horn]

05:46 PM on 02/04/2012

"..."Heathers" -- we're hoping "Sixteen Candles" is next." I'm hoping Broadway would start doing something original.

[julesfishface]

05:42 PM on 02/04/2012

Love Broadway, but some things should stay away from it. This is one of those things...

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[Mindy Czech]

04:56 PM on 02/04/2012

That is one of the worst ideas I've ever heard of. Wow.

[kck9284]

04:04 PM on 02/04/2012

McFLY!