Now, Gale gets to do one last victory lap. “Look, people love Star Wars, but I don’t think ‘Use the Force’ is gonna help you live your everyday life.” I’ve had people come up to me and say, ‘That bit of advice was really important for me to hear,’” he says. “‘Your future is exactly what you make of it,’ as Doc Brown would say. There’s a certain religion in that, isn’t there? “If you do the wrong thing-‘You shouldn’t drink!’ ‘Why not?’ ‘You might regret it later in life!’-and it’s because he knows she’s a drunk? People think about that,” says Gale.
Gale brings up the time Marty McFly travels to a timeline where his mother winds up becoming an alcoholic. You need to be responsible for your own future, and if you do the right thing now, it’ll have positive results in the future,” says Gale. “That’s what Bob Zemeckis and I believe: These movies are about personal responsibility. If that sounds like a better future, a more hopeful future than now, it’s because it is. Haven’t you ever been there?’ So am I gonna be worried about that? No.” Because if that picture somebody took on Facebook of you being drunk, running down the street naked-if that gets out there- what are you gonna say?” he asks. How do you deal with that? “You deal with it by not having any shame about the stupid stuff that you do. We’re not gonna have it anymore,” he says. “It’ll be able to do a whole bio-examination of you, compare it to the data that Google has on 400 million other people, and be able to say ‘You need to cut back on the ice cream,’” he says.īut the truly gorgeous part of his future is that it will take the ugly, broken, pubescent cultural quagmires of now, and it will make them transcendent, comfortable, or even empowering. He thinks there’s going to be something he calls GoogleMD, for example. It took Steve Jobs to come along and say, ‘Everybody, you’re gonna need this.’ In the future, trust me, there will be something else.”īut here’s the beautiful thing about Bob Gale’s 2045: It’s just as optimistic as his imagined 2015. You might get a few things right, but you’re gonna get a lot of things wrong,” says Gale. Sure, it’s on the giant sunglasses affixed to his face, but he’s still off in his own world. “We don’t have Jaws 19, but we have Sharknado 3,” he says.Īt Cafe ’80s, Marty orders a Pepsi from Michael Jackson and Ronald Reagan imitators, the celebrity voices of what we’d now consider self-checkout lines.Īnd at the dinner table, Marty’s future kid even checks his phone. In 2015, Marty wanders around the town square and is attacked by a 3D hologram of what would eventually be known as an IMAX 3D version of Jaws 19. Gale and director Robert Zemeckis did just that. “We wanted to portray an optimistic, enjoyable, fun future, where the characters are still a mess,” he tells The Daily Beast. He’s thinking it’s closer to the borderline utopian one in his brain in the 1980s than the dystopian one he’d also dreamt up.Īnd that’s tremendous news for us all, because Bob Gale was very, very right the first time. So if you’re downtown, you might want to hoverchain your hoverboard to a hoverfire hydrant.īut here’s the good news: Bob Gale is very optimistic about our future. Today is the Future.Here’s the bad news: Today, October 21, 2015, is the day Marty and Doc arrive in Downtown Hill Valley, California, to save Marty from going to jail, then go on your standard 2015 stolen hoverboard chase through the main street of an American town. Now, today, Marty and Doc are here to deliver the rest.
They save themselves and America from Donald Tr… Biff Tannen. Of course, in Back to the Future Part II, Marty McFly and Doc Brown fix it all just in the nick of time.
Of course, in the movie, Biff uses the profits from his 27-story casino (the Trump Plaza Hotel, completed in 1984, is 37 floors, by the way) to help shake up the Republican Party, before eventually assuming political power himself, helping transform Hill Valley, California, into a lawless, dystopian wasteland, where hooliganism reigns, dissent is quashed, and wherein Biff encourages every citizen to call him “America’s greatest living folk hero.”
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