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"What was really gratifying for me is that, of course, everybody associated with the production, they're big fans of the movie. "The stagecraft is absolutely incredible," Gale enthuses. Of course, there's still the DeLorean and that iconic clock tower, among other Back to the Future staples, that fans can look forward to. It's all part of trying to make the musical different enough to the movie, yet still quintessentially Back to the Future.
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That means for things like the terrorist chase and skateboard pursuit are out, but in their place are new tweaks that "dramatically work exactly as they did" and callouts to movie moments they couldn't do on stage. It's a nice little period detail that we would never have thought about in 1985."īack to the Future fans might still notice some differences from the movie though, both because 1985 was a different time and because there are certain things in a movie that wouldn't work on stage. Today, people are like, 'What are video rentals? What does that mean?'. "Just as a small example, one of the benches in the town square in 1985 is promoting a video store with video rentals. So there are little bits of social comment about the '80s and the 21st century in there," he explains. "We're now looking back at the '80s in the way that Bob Zemeckis and I looked back at the '50s when we wrote the movie. Revisiting the original movie gave Gale a new perspective and allowed him to add certain elements to reflect on the time that's passed since it was released in 1985. They realised the fact that Marty was a musician made it the perfect fit, along with Doc Brown being a "larger-than-life" character who would work as a stage role. Gale and Zemeckis got together with Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri, who both provide the music and lyrics. The idea to adapt the beloved movie into a musical started back in 2005 when Zemeckis's wife Leslie Harter suggested it after seeing The Producers. With Olly Dobson and Roger Bart stepping into the formidable shoes of Michael J Fox and Christopher Lloyd as Marty and Doc Brown, respectively, the musical retells the story of the original movie. That's a tall order, but I think that the musical fulfils that." "When people say, 'I want to see Back to the Future Part IV', what they're really saying is, 'I want to see a Back to the Future movie that makes me feel the same way I felt when I saw that first movie'. Nobody who sees the musical is ever going to get it confused with the movie and that has worked really well to our advantage. " was a way to revisit it without tampering with the lore of the movie. We set a really high bar for ourselves with those three movies, and we don't want people coming out of a remake saying, 'Man, they messed it up'," he tells Digital Spy. "People, of course, had been clamouring for more Back to the Future forever and we had steadfastly said, 'No, we're not going to do a Part IV, and we don't want to reboot it'.
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