Back to the Future Fan Club
P.O. Box 880
Athens, AL 35612-0880

Dear Jigowatters,

I would like to start off by simply thanking you for all the letters I've received over the years. The Back to the Future trilogy started as a small idea, and was built into a timeless movie experience that I am extremely proud of. As a writer and director, I am extremely honored that so many of you have made these films your own. With that being said, I would like to request that you please stop sending me letters. The last Back to the Future movie came out over fifteen years ago, and since then I have focused my career on many other successful films, including, among others, Forrest Gump, which won six Academy Awards. I have moved on, and so should you.

Stop asking me why Dr. Brown is so frantic about getting Marty McFly to the year 2015 at the end of the first Back to the Future. I realize that there was no need for them to rush, as they did have access to a time machine. But we believed that Doc Brown running around and filling up the Deloreon's Mr. Fusion fuel tank with garbage, while wearing futuristic sunglasses was an exciting way to end the film. So a prequel to Back to the Future II where "Marty and Doc vacation before heading to the future" is not appealing at all, even if it has an element of realism.

It would not be "sweet" to see a scene of Dr. Brown and Marty McFly taking a break in "dinosaur times." And a tie-in scene with Doctor Ian Malcolm, Jeff Goldblum's character from the original Jurassic Park, is a terrible idea. Your fan fiction to confirms this. Dr. Ian Malcolm showing the chaos theory to Marty by pouring water on his hand, and Marty's hand beginning to "erase from existence," is nonsensical, especially as a preface to the proposed sex scene between Mayor Goldie Wilson and Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen.

Also, please stop asking me to integrate Back to the Future special features into the DVD releases of my other films. I will not release an alternate "imagining" of Cast Away where the volleyball, Wilson, is voiced by Thomas Wilson, who played Biff in Back to the Future. The thin relation of his last name is not enough to make that idea relevant. So, stop sending me suggestions of scenes and dialogue based on that premise. A scene where Tom Hanks' character eats feces, so we can have Biff's line "I hate manure," is ridiculous, and it would be outlandishly expensive to CGI a new volleyball.

I know most of you diehard Back to the Future fans did not like my film Death Becomes Her, and that is absolutely fine. But I will not make an "Alfred-Hitchcock-like appearance in the new Back to the Future, in which [I] wear a shirt that says 'Death becomes Death Becomes Her.'" Both because there will not be a new Back to the Future, and because that shirt is not clever.

As for Forrest Gump, this movie has a deep meaning for me and Mrs. Zemeckis, and not just because I won Best Director for making it. This slow yet lovable character has touched millions of movie watchers world wide, and I believe it is a testament to the character's strength and optimism. So, no, I don't think there should be an added scene where the "shrimp boat turns into a time machine, and Forest [sic] goes back in time to change things so he is not retarded."

I consider myself extremely lucky that I have been able to make films for moviegoers for over 35 years. So please stop sending me your letters so I can go on believing that movie fans are not lunatics. Also, I had absolutely nothing to do with the new Indiana Jones, so those letters can stop as well.

Sincerely Yours,
Robert Zemeckis