If there is one thing guaranteed to bring a smile to the faces of fans of the Back to the Future movies, it is seeing actors Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd getting together. When the pair returned to New York Comic Con in October, it was an internet-breaking moment as the long-time friends hugged it out on stage in an emotional reunion. However, the friendship between the two is not something that happened immediately when the duo worked together on the original Back to the Future movies. According to Fox, it wasn’t until Back to the Future Part III that they really bonded. Reflecting on their friendship, Fox told Variety:

“Chris is a great guy. He’s very enigmatic. It took me a few films to get to know him. On ‘Back to the Future Part III’ we connected in a way we hadn’t on the other films. I came to see how much he loved acting. I never got that before. To sit down and talk about acting and talk about Shakespeare and ‘King Lear’… This guy can play King Lear! People don’t expect that of him. He’s full of surprises. He can tell a movie’s worth of story in two seconds and you get it. Us regular actors have to lay out hours and hours to get the information out. Chris is brilliant at it. His love of film and his love of being an actor… He’s not just a crazy guy, he’s an artist.”

Michael J. Fox Has An Idea For a Back to the Future Reboot

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The Back to the Future franchise is one of the most-loved trilogies in cinema history. While that may mean many would be completely against the idea of a reboot, Michael J. Fox feels like if and when the inevitable happens, it should swap the gender of the lead character. He previously said:

Most fans would more likely prefer to see a fourth movie in the Back to the Future franchise, but that is something that doesn’t seem like it is ever going to happen for several reasons. When asked about the possibility of a new film back in 2020, original Back to the Future writer Bob Gale said:

“I actually had this thought that if they did the movie again, they should do it with a girl as Marty. There’s something about [the franchise] that connects with people on every level. I just feel like it will come around again.”

“We told a complete story with the trilogy. If we went back and made another one, we’d have Michael J. Fox, who will be sixty next year, and he has Parkinson’s Disease. Do we want to see Marty McFly at age sixty with Parkinson’s Disease? Did we want to see him at age fifty with Parkinson’s Disease? I would say ‘No, you don’t want to see that.’ And you don’t want to see Back to the Future without Michael J. Fox. People say, ‘Well, do it with somebody else.’ Really? Who are you going to get? All you’re gonna do is beg comparisons to the originals, and you’re not going to match up.”