Robert Zemeckis has no interest in making Back to the Future 4, but would like to adapt the musical version of the film.
"I would like to do the Back to the Future: The Musical [movie]. I would love to do that,” Zemeckis told the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via Variety). “I think that would be great. I floated that out to the folks at Universal. They don’t get it. So, [there’s] nothing I can do."
Musical movies have become a bit more popular in the last few years, with Steven Spielberg's West Side Story remake winning the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture. Other musical movies, however, haven't fared as well: Mean Girls received largely mixed reviews (though individual performances were praised), and Joker: Folie a Deux was more or less dead on arrival. Coincidentally, both films were purposefully not advertised as musicals.
