:lol:

Michael Richards is a good one though.

:lol: That I would go see.

Marty: Dave Chappelle
Doc Brown: Paul Mooney
George: Samuel L. Jackson
Biff: Charlie Murphy

I'd watch it.

Nice on O'Quinn!

Speaking of the OC I think Benjamin McKenzie would be a good choice for Marty.

All British Remake:

Marty: Guy from Hot Fuzz
Doc Brown: John Cleese
George: Rowan Atkinson
Biff: ?

There should be a movie where a London kid from today goes back in time to see his parents in the '60s.

Doc: Samuel L. Jackson

I got nothing for the rest.

rotfl

It's been done . . . but to punch it up, they sent Marty of the past to the future) and made him an International Man of Mystery . . .

I like that choice better than Shia La Beuf.

how about:
Marty: Benjamin McKenzie
Lorraine: Mandy Moore
Doc: Steve Martin
George: Justin Long
Biff: Chris Klein

Christopher Meloni for the Doc. He can play crazy, and has somewhat of a resemblance to Christopher Lloyd.

McLovin = George

:up: Although Meloni is not A-list enough for a remake.

I can see Universal doing this soon. It's not like they've got a ton of great franchises (aside from Bourne).

So if they remade this now would they have to go back to the late 70s? It would be difficult to imagine the "fish out of water" jokes they would have to come up with.

"Oh, this is a great song... I have it on my iPod."
"What the hell's an iPod?"

"Can I get a Coke Zero?"
"Who you callin' a zero, buddy?"

"Oh wow, Star Wars Episode 4 is playing at your theater!"
"Episode 4? It's the first one!"

I think you need to recast one of your roles.

rotfl

How about a special guest appearance by Barack Obama? :)

BARACK "GOLDIE" OBAMA: "One of these days I'm gonna be somebody!"

MARTY: "That's right, he's gonna be President!"


[LATER]

DOC BROWN: Goldie Obama President? I suppose Jimmy Walker is Secretary of State?!

Maybe it needs to move to the 80s?

"Who's governor in 2008?" "Arnold Schwarzenegger? The actor?" "Who's his Lt. Governor, Jean Claude Van Damme?"

So yes, it would suck.

marty: Omarion
Loraine: Christina Milian
George: Sean Thomas
Biff: Mekhi Phifer
Doc: Bernie Mac


i still stand by this one

Please God no

"I suppose Jesse 'The Body' Ventura is governor too!"
"Well, yes he was, but not now..."

No Nick Canon = No Sale.

I think "Back to the Future" is pretty ripe for a remake, because it's a neat, romantic idea that has room for improvement. But you would definitely want to retool the BttF concept. I loved this when I was a kid, and I watched it recently, and it doesn't hold up well.

Actually, the "Futurama" time-travel episode "Roswell That Ends Well" was probably a better "Back to the Future" than "Back to the Future"

Frankly the cool things about the movie are the DeLorean, the time travel, and the Doc. The ickiness with his mom, the truckload-of-manure pratfalls, and the "who you callin' chicken" goofiness ought to be left in the 80s. I think a better remake would be more like part 2. Basically, the thing I would hold constant is the time-travel concept, the blockbuster budget, and the self-conscious sense of humor.

Everything else needs to be stripped away and rebuilt from scratch if the project is going to be worthwhile.

The way I see it, there's too basic themes to the movie. One is that the central conflict of the time machine; you desire the thing because you want to change the past, or you want a second chance to fix your bad decisions, but changing the past is essentially a destructive act with unintended consequences.

In "Back to the Future II," Marty's desire to take the future sports scores to the past to make money on sports betting sets off a kind of chain reaction that changes his whole world. This kind of conflict would be better if it stemmed, for example, out of Marty's warning the doc about the terrorists in the first movie.

There's a decent human story there that cuts through the sci-fi paradox mumbo jumbo that usually wrecks the premise. Instead of imagining this thing in a stroke of inspiration while sitting on the toilet, maybe the Doc has been laboring on this insane project for years in secret because there's some loss in his past that he never got over.

The other story is the time machine as a mode of self discovery, which is Marty's weird Oedipal trip in the first movie, and his desire to spy on himself in the second.

If you cut away the extraneous stuff, the outdated eighties high-school movie touchstones, the guitar solo, and the skateboard chase, you can probably make a better movie by better-developing the central themes.

Also, I think they should make Marty a graduate student and the Doc a university professor. There was a whole weird vibe that he was this maniac who liked to hang out with teenage boys. And it needs to be a new kind of schtick. He can't just be a guy doing a Christopher Lloyd impression. That's done. So Walken doing his bit from "Click" doesn't fly.

So I think Seth Rogan would be a good Marty and Bill Murray would be a good Doc, or you could take the Doc character in a different direction and cast, like, Owen Wilson.

I may not agree with all you said, but I think your response was extremely well thought out.

sure, the sequels have room for improvement. the original, however, does not.

Doc=Brent Spiner