We watched Back to the Future yesterday!! It was so great!! I had forgotten some of it but it brought back a lot of memories. Today the cast was in New York City for a reunion. Whitney Matheson of Pop Candy for USA Today was there. She said everyone was there (well, except for Crispin Glover): Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, director Robert Zemeckis, writer/producer Bob Gale, even Huey Lewis and Mary Steenburgen, who appeared in Part III. During the Q&A, she mentioned the big Back to the Future prop and wardrobe auction I wrote about last week. "Did you hold on to any items from the movies?" Whitney asked, thinking Michael J. Fox might have a hoverboard stuffed under his bed.
Gale noted the historic copies of USA TODAY come from his personal collection and that proceeds from the auction go to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
Thompson said she still has her pink prom dress. "Every Halloween my kids try it on," she said, nodding toward her two daughters in the audience.
"What I wish I had was that guitar," Fox said, adding that he thought he'd kept some Nikes from the film. "I think I'm still tired from the movie. Does that count as a souvenir?"
Lloyd kept a "yellow shirt with trains on it." Steenburgen kept a pin that said "Clara."
Said Huey Lewis: "I have nothing."
Though everyone onstage got along remarkably well and had fun reminiscing, the filmmakers were adamant that there will be no sequels, no remakes, no re-imaginings of the series.
"We love Back to the Future the way it is," Gale said. "We don't wanna screw around with the space-time continuum."
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