![]() ![]() 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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