Back to the Future Part III

In November 1955, moments after witnessing Emmett "Doc" Brown disappear in his DeLorean, Marty McFly learns that Doc was sent 70 years in the past to 1885.{{refn|group=N|As depicted at the end of Back to the Future Part II (1989).}} Using information from Doc's 1885 letter, Marty and the 1955 Doc find and repair the DeLorean so Marty can return to 1985. However, after finding it, Marty comes across a tombstone with Doc's name, with the inscription stating that Doc was shot by Biff Tannen's great-grandfather, Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen, six days after writing the letter.

Despite the letter's warning, Marty travels back to September 2, 1885, to save Doc, arriving in the middle of a cavalry pursuit of Native Americans, but the car's fuel line is damaged in the process. Chased by a bear, he is knocked out and found by his Irish-born great-great-grandparents Seamus and Maggie McFly, who allow him to stay for the night. The next morning, under the alias Clint Eastwood, Marty arrives in a newly founded Hill Valley but runs afoul of Buford and his gang. Buford tries hanging Marty but fails when Doc rescues him. Doc agrees to leave 1885 after learning his fate, but without gasoline, the DeLorean cannot reach its required {{convert|88|mph|abbr=off|sp=us}}. He thus proposes using a steam locomotive to push the DeLorean to that speed.

While inspecting a rail spur, Doc saves the town's new schoolteacher Clara Clayton from falling into the ravine, averting her death from the original timeline. They fall in love at first sight and form a close relationship. At a town festival for the courthouse, Buford tries shooting Doc, but Marty thwarts him. Buford then challenges him to a showdown in two days by calling him "yellow"; an angry Marty accepts, believing that he and Doc would have left by then. Doc urges Marty not to react to provocation, letting slip that Marty has a life changing accident in the future.

Although he is reluctant to return to 1985, Doc eventually visits Clara to end their relationship and bid her goodbye. However, feeling insulted, she dismisses his story about being from the future. Despondent, he goes for a binge. In the morning, Buford arrives for Marty, who sees his alias appear in the photograph of the tombstone and refuses to duel. Doc passes out after downing just one shot; he is eventually revived, but is captured by Buford's gang, forcing Marty into the duel. Marty fools Buford into believing that he was fatally shot and knocks him into a wagon of manure. Buford and his gang are promptly arrested for an earlier robbery.

On the train to San Francisco, Clara learns how heartbroken Doc is and runs back to town. She finds the model of the time machine at his shop. Realizing that Doc was telling the truth, she heads back to meet him. Using the stolen locomotive, Doc and Marty push the DeLorean along the spur line. Clara boards the locomotive and, attempting to reach Doc, nearly falls off. Marty, in the DeLorean, passes his hoverboard to Doc, and he uses it to save Clara and carry her to safety. Marty hits 88 mph and vanishes as the overheated locomotive falls off the unfinished bridge.

Arriving back in 1985 on October 27, Marty escapes from the powerless DeLorean just before an oncoming freight train destroys it. Reuniting with his girlfriend Jennifer Parker, Marty declines a street race with Douglas J. Needles, thus avoiding the future accident Doc warned him about. Jennifer opens the fax message she kept from 2015 and watches as the text regarding Marty's firing disappears.

As Marty and Jennifer examine the DeLorean wreckage, a steam locomotive suddenly appears, operated by Doc, Clara, and their children. Doc gives Marty a photo of them standing next to the town clock in 1885. When Jennifer asks Doc about the blank fax, he states that it means that their future has not yet been written and encourages them to make it a good one. Doc and his family bid farewell and fly off in the locomotive to an unknown time.

{{See also|List of Back to the Future characters{{!}}List of Back to the Future characters}}

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{{Cast listing|

• Michael J. Fox as:
• Marty McFly
• Seamus McFly
• Christopher Lloyd as Emmett "Doc" Brown
• Mary Steenburgen as Clara Clayton
• Thomas F. Wilson as:
• Biff Tannen
• Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen
• Lea Thompson as:
• Lorraine McFly
• Maggie McFly

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Returning actors from previous films include Elisabeth Shue and Flea as Jennifer Parker and Douglas J. Needles, as well as Marc McClure, Wendie Jo Sperber and Jeffrey Weissman as Dave, Linda and George McFly, respectively. James Tolkan, who played Mr. Strickland in the first two films, plays his ancestor Marshal James Strickland.

Buford's gang in 1885 is portrayed by Christopher Wynne, Sean Gregory Sullivan, and Mike Watson. Wynne also plays a member of Needles' gang in 1985, alongside J. J. Cohen and Ricky Dean Logan, who played Skinhead and Data, respectively, in previous films.

Chester the bartender is played by Matt Clark, and three elderly patrons of the saloon are played by veteran Western film actors Pat Buttram, Harry Carey, Jr. and Dub Taylor. Hugh Gillin, Burton Gilliam, Donovan Scott and Bill McKinney portray Hill Valley's mayor, a gun salesman, Strickland's deputy, and an engineer respectively. Todd Cameron Brown and Dannel Evans play Doc and Clara's sons Jules and Verne Brown, and Lindsay Vail Clark portrays William McFly, Marty's great-grandfather.https://x.com/Lindzanity/status/1249400891381370882 Frank Beard, Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill of ZZ Top cameo as the band at the Festival.

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The origins of the western theme for Back to the Future Part III lay in the production of the original film. During filming for the original, director Zemeckis asked Michael J. Fox what time period he would like to see. Fox replied that he wanted to visit the Old West and meet cowboys. Zemeckis and writer/producer Bob Gale were intrigued by the idea, but held it off until Part III. Rather than use existing sets, the filmmakers built the 1885 Hill Valley from scratch. The western scenes were filmed on location in Oak Park, California and Monument Valley.Back to the Future 2002 DVD Feature: Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale Q&A recorded at the University of Southern California Some of the location shooting for the 1885 Hill Valley was done in Jamestown, California, and on a purpose-built set at the Red Hills Ranch near Sonora, California. Some of the train scenes were filmed at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park,{{cite web|url=http://www.railtown1897.org/railtown/doc.asp?id=339 |title=Railtown 1897 State Historic Park Film Credits |website=railtown1897.org|access-date=October 4, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101203053007/http://www.railtown1897.org/railtown/doc.asp?id=339 |archive-date=December 3, 2010}}{{cite book | last = Jensen | first = Larry | authorlink = | title = Hollywood's Railroads: Sierra Railroad | publisher = Cochetopa Press | series = | volume = Two | edition = | date = 2018 | location = Sequim, Washington | pages = 61–64 | language = | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=c-RNswEACAAJ&q=Hollywood%27s+Railroads | doi = | id = | isbn =978-0-692-06472-6 | mr = | zbl = | jfm = | access-date =May 8, 2022 | archive-date =May 7, 2022 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20220507223541/https://books.google.com/books?id=c-RNswEACAAJ&dq=Hollywood%27s+Railroads&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiKgvSWqYncAhXqhFQKHQdfCaAQ6AEINjAE | url-status =live}} a heritage line in Jamestown.

The shooting of the Back to the Future sequels, which were shot back-to-back throughout 1989, reunited much of the crew of the original.{{cite video |people=Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis |title=Back to the Future Part III. Special Features: Making the Trilogy: Chapter Three |medium=DVD |publisher=Universal Studios Home Entertainment |date=2002|display-authors=etal}} The films were shot over the course of eleven months, save for a three-week hiatus between filming of Parts II and III, and concluded in January 1990. The most grueling part was editing Part II while filming Part III, and Zemeckis bore the brunt of the process over a three-week period. While Zemeckis was shooting most of the train sequences in Sonora, Gale was in Los Angeles supervising the final dub of Part II. Zemeckis would wrap photography and board a private plane to Burbank, where Gale and engineers would greet him on the dubbing stage with dinner. He would oversee the reels completed that day, and make changes where needed. Afterwards, he would retire to the Sheraton Universal Hotel for the night. The following morning, Zemeckis would drive to the Burbank Airport, board a flight back to the set in Northern California, and continue to shoot the film.

Although the schedule for most of the personnel involved was grueling, the actors found the remote location for Part III relaxing, compared to shooting its predecessor.

The role of Clara Clayton was written with Mary Steenburgen in mind. When she received the script, however, she was reluctant to commit to the film until her children, who had loved the first film, "hounded" her.

The Hill Valley Festival Dance scene proved to be the most dangerous for Lloyd and Steenburgen; overzealous dancing left Steenburgen with a torn ligament in her foot.{{cite video |people=Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis |title=Back to the Future Part III. Special Features: The Making of Back to the Future Part III |medium=DVD |publisher=Universal Studios Home Entertainment |date=2002|display-authors=etal}}

The film also featured cameos from veteran Western film actors Pat Buttram, Harry Carey Jr. and Dub Taylor as three "saloon old timers".{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H7PLgyEBL3UC&q=Pat+Buttram,+Harry+Carey,+Jr.+Dub+Taylor+Back+to+the+Future&pg=PA99 |title=The Worlds of Back to the Future: Critical Essays on the Films |date=May 12, 2010 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5765-6 |editor=Fhlainn |editor-first=Sorcha Ní |editor-link=Sorcha Ní Fhlainn |access-date=November 14, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508021626/https://books.google.com/books?id=H7PLgyEBL3UC&q=Pat+Buttram%2C+Harry+Carey%2C+Jr.+Dub+Taylor+Back+to+the+Future&pg=PA99 |archive-date=May 8, 2021 |url-status=live}} The inclusion of these noticeable Western actors was promoted in several documentaries about the film, as well as the behind-the-scenes documentary of the DVD and in the obituary of one of the actors.{{cite web|url=http://soentertain.me/2012/12/western-character-actor-harry-carey-jr-passes-away/|title=soentertain.me|website=soentertain.me|access-date=November 14, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140222150745/http://soentertain.me/2012/12/western-character-actor-harry-carey-jr-passes-away/|archive-date=February 22, 2014}} Zemeckis considered having Ronald Reagan play the part of the Mayor of Hill Valley in 1885. Reagan, who in 1989 had just recently finished his second term as president, had appeared in several Westerns during his earlier career as an actor. Zemeckis contacted Reagan's agent, Lew Wasserman, to gauge the ex-president's interest in the role, to which Reagan declined.{{cite book|last=Weinberg|first=Mark|date=2018|title=Movie Nights with the Reagans|publisher=Simon & Schuster|isbn=978-1-5011-3399-2|page=151}}

Shooting a film set in the Old West was appealing to the stuntmen, who were all experienced horse riders. Gale recalled in 2002 that many stuntmen in Hollywood wanted to work on Part III. Thomas F. Wilson, who played Buford Tannen, chose to perform his own stunts and spent a great deal of time learning to ride a horse and throw his lariat. Filming was paused when Fox's father died, and when his son was born.

Alan Silvestri returned to compose the score for Back to the Future Part III, continuing his longtime collaboration with Zemeckis. Rather than dictate how the music should sound, Zemeckis directed Silvestri as he would an actor, seeking to evoke emotion and treating every piece of music like a character. The musicians of the Old West-style band in the film were played by American rock band ZZ Top.

The photography in Part III was a "dream" for cinematographer Dean Cundey, who shared with much of the crew his excitement to shoot a Western. Zemeckis wished to create a spectacular climax to the film. He coordinated the actors, a live 4-6-0 ten wheeler steam locomotive (the Sierra Railway 3{{cite web |author=The Providence Journal |title=Train needs makeover before next Hollywood close-up - ScrippsNews |website=scrippsnews.com |date=March 10, 2012 |url=https://www.scrippsnews.com/node/18914 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310202749/http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/18914 |archive-date=March 10, 2012 |url-status=dead |access-date=November 16, 2022}}{{cite web |title=Movies |website=Sierra DinnerTrain |date=November 8, 2014 |url=https://sierradinnertrain.com/movies/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108071332/https://sierradinnertrain.com/movies/ |archive-date=November 8, 2014 |url-status=dead |access-date=November 16, 2022}}), pyrotechnics, and special effects, and countless technicians all at once. As they had done with the previous two films in the trilogy, the visual effects for Part III were managed by effects company Industrial Light & Magic; the head of its animation department, Wes Takahashi, returned to once again animate the DeLorean's time travel sequences.{{cite web|last=Failes|first=Ian|date=October 21, 2015|title=The future is today: how ILM made time travel possible|url=https://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-future-is-today-how-ilm-made-time-travel-possible-frame-by-frame/|website=FXGuide|access-date=June 17, 2016|archive-date=July 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160701211801/https://www.fxguide.com/featured/the-future-is-today-how-ilm-made-time-travel-possible-frame-by-frame/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://itu.edu/digital-arts/faculty/|title=Digital Arts Faculty|publisher=International Technological University|access-date=June 17, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812215132/http://itu.edu/digital-arts/faculty/|archive-date=August 12, 2016}}

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On November 8, 1990, MCA/Universal Home Video released Back to the Future Part III on VHS and on December 17, 2002, on DVD.{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Back-Future-The-Complete-Trilogy/dp/B00006AL1E|title=Amazon.com: Back to the Future: The Complete Trilogy|website=Amazon|access-date=January 25, 2016|archive-date=February 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160206021600/http://www.amazon.com/Back-Future-The-Complete-Trilogy/dp/B00006AL1E|url-status=live}} It debuted on Blu-ray in 2010 for the film's 20th anniversary, followed by a second Blu-ray remaster in 2015 for the film's 25th anniversary and a 4K Blu-ray remaster in 2020 for the film's 30th anniversary.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Back-Future-Anniversary-Trilogy-Blu-ray/dp/B0054OGQOQ|title=Back to the Future 25th Anniversary Trilogy [Blu-ray] – Amazon|publisher=Amazon|access-date=July 13, 2021|archive-date=September 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917112711/https://www.amazon.com/Back-Future-Anniversary-Trilogy-Blu-ray/dp/B0054OGQOQ|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Back-Future-Trilogy-Blu-ray-Michael/dp/B011Q0FSC2|title=Back to the Future 30th Anniversary Trilogy [Blu-ray] – Amazon|publisher=Amazon|access-date=July 13, 2021|archive-date=September 17, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210917112708/https://www.amazon.com/Back-Future-Trilogy-Blu-ray-Michael/dp/B011Q0FSC2|url-status=live}}{{Cite web|title=Back to the Future™ Trilogy – One of the Biggest Motion Picture Trilogies Comes to 4K Ultra HD for the First Time Ever|url=https://www.backtothefuture.com/news/2020/7/27/back-to-the-future-the-ultimate-trilogy-heads-to-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray-and-dvd|access-date=August 3, 2020|website=Back to the Future™ Trilogy|language=en-US|archive-date=August 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803140315/https://www.backtothefuture.com/news/2020/7/27/back-to-the-future-the-ultimate-trilogy-heads-to-4k-ultra-hd-blu-ray-and-dvd|url-status=live}}

The soundtrack was released under Varèse Sarabande on May 29, 1990, and features most of the score by Alan Silvestri and the orchestral version of the song "Doubleback" performed at the festival in 1885 during the film.{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099088/soundtrack|title=Back to the Future Part III (1990) – Soundtracks|publisher=IMDB|access-date=July 13, 2021|archive-date=August 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825114134/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099088/soundtrack|url-status=live}} A two-disc special edition was released on October 12, 2015, in commemoration of the film's 25th anniversary, which includes the original score (26 tracks) on disc one and an arrangement of alternate cues and source music on a second disc.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Back-Future-Part-III-Anniversary/dp/B0169OW1UC|title=Back to the Future Part III: 25th Anniversary Edition (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) – Amazon|publisher=Amazon|access-date=July 13, 2021|archive-date=July 29, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210729155907/https://www.amazon.com/Back-Future-Part-III-Anniversary/dp/B0169OW1UC|url-status=live}}

The film grossed $23 million in its first weekend of U.S. release and $87.6 million altogether in U.S. box office receipts (or about ${{Inflation|US-GDP|87.666629|1990|r=1}} million adjusted as of {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}{{Inflation/fn|US-GDP}}) – $246 million worldwide.{{cite news|first=Pat H.|last=Broeske|title='Back to Future III' a Fast Draw Against 'Fire Birds' Movies: Memorial weekend opening is no contest. 'Future III' takes $23.7 million, while 'Birds' takes $6.3 million.|work=Los Angeles Times|date=May 30, 1990|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-05-30-ca-166-story.html|access-date=November 16, 2010|archive-date=July 9, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120709115442/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-05-30/entertainment/ca-166_1_future-iii/2|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/BacktotheFuture.php|title=Box Office History for Back to the Future Movies|website=The Numbers|access-date=November 28, 2010|archive-date=November 7, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121107152235/http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/series/BacktotheFuture.php|url-status=live}}{{cite news|title='Recall' Totally Outdistances 'Future' in Box-Office Race Movies: Schwarzenegger's sci-fi flick opens with $25.5 million. But it only just edges the 'Turtles' ' $25.3-million record.|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=March 15, 1993|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-06-05-ca-641-story.html|access-date=November 30, 2010|archive-date=November 4, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104021022/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-06-05/entertainment/ca-641_1_box-office|url-status=live}}

{{Rotten Tomatoes prose |score=79 |count=48 |average=6.8 |consensus=Back to the Future Part III draws the trilogy to a satisfying close with a simpler, sweeter round of time-travel antics.|ref=yes |access-date=December 15, 2024}} {{Metacritic film prose |score=55|count=19 |ref=yes |access-date=February 17, 2020 }} Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale, same as the second installment.{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemascore.com|title=Find CinemaScore|format=Type "Back to the Future" in the search box|publisher=CinemaScore|access-date=February 17, 2020|archive-date=January 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180102130540/https://www.cinemascore.com/|url-status=live}}

Kim Newman of Empire gave the film four out of five stars, saying that the film "restores heart interest of the first film and has a satisfying complete storyline". He praised Michael J. Fox for "keeping the plot on the move" and mentioned that Christopher Lloyd and Mary Steenburgen's romance was "funny". He said that the film's ending was the "neatest of all" and it "features one of the best time machines in the cinema, promising that this is indeed the very last in the series and neatly wrapping it up for everybody".{{cite magazine | last=Newman | first=Kim | author-link=Kim Newman | title=Back to the Future: Part III | url=http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=132359 | magazine=Empire | access-date=August 30, 2012 | archive-date=September 25, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140925164620/http://www.empireonline.com/reviews/reviewcomplete.asp?FID=132359 | url-status=live}}

Leonard Maltin preferred the film to the first two, giving it three-and-a-half stars out of four, praising the film as great fun, special effects and imagination, also saying that the movie magic works in the film.Maltin, Leonard (2008), p. 78. Leonard Maltin's 2009 Movie Guide. Signet Books. Michael McWhertor of the website Polygon wrote that while the film was not better than the original entry in the series, it is nonetheless "leagues better than the second"; he praised the film's comedic and romantic elements, and commended Thomas F. Wilson's performance as "Mad Dog" Tannen.{{cite web |last=McWhertor |first=Michael |date=October 21, 2015 |title=Back to the Future Part 3 is perfect (and better than Part 2) |url=http://www.polygon.com/2015/10/21/9583662/back-to-the-future-3-is-perfect |website=Polygon |access-date=June 23, 2016 |archive-date=June 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608084638/http://www.polygon.com/2015/10/21/9583662/back-to-the-future-3-is-perfect |url-status=live}}

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film two-and-a-half out of four stars. He said that the film's western motifs are "a sitcom version that looks exactly as if it were built on a back lot somewhere".{{cite web | first=Roger | last=Ebert | author-link=Roger Ebert | url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/back-to-the-future-part-iii-1990 | title=Back to the Future Part III review | work=Chicago Sun-Times | date=May 25, 1990 | access-date=September 28, 2022 | url-status=live | archive-date=September 28, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928144950/https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/back-to-the-future-part-iii-1990}} Although Vincent Canby of The New York Times praised Christopher Lloyd's performance in the film, he also said that the film "looks as if it could be the beginning of a continuing television series". He complained that the film is "so sweet-natured and bland that it is almost instantly forgettable".{{cite web | last=Canby | first=Vincent | author-link=Vincent Canby | title=A Trilogy Whose Future Has Passed | url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C0CE0DF1F38F936A15756C0A966958260 | work=The New York Times| date=May 25, 1990 | access-date=August 30, 2012}}

Commentators noticed parallels between Part III and the film Time After Time (1979).{{cite web|url=http://mix979fm.com/what-ties-these-five-time-travel-movies-together-video/|title=What Ties These Five Time-Travel Movies Together? – [Video]|author=Spencer Bennett|website=mix979fm.com|date=November 2, 2015|quote=I was noticing the time-traveling ties between 'Time After Time' (1979) and another movie 'Back to the Future III' (1990), a film also starring Mary Steenburgen. In 'Time After Time', she played Amy Robbins, a 20th Century woman who falls in love with a time traveller, H.G. Wells (played by Malcolm McDowell) from the 19th Century.... In Back to the Future Part III (1990), she played Clara Clayton, a 19th Century woman who falls in love with a time traveller, (played by Christopher Lloyd) from the 20th Century.|access-date=February 20, 2019|archive-date=February 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220062955/http://mix979fm.com/what-ties-these-five-time-travel-movies-together-video/|url-status=live}} Mary Steenburgen has said:

Actually, I've played the same scene in that film [Time After Time] and in [Back to the Future Part III]…. I've had a man from a different time period tell me that he's in love with me, but he has to go back to his own time. My response in both cases is, of course, disbelief, and I order them out of my life. Afterwards, I find out I was wrong and that, in fact, the man is indeed from another time, and I go after him (them) to profess my love. It's a pretty strange feeling to find yourself doing the same scene, so many years apart, for the second time in your career.{{cite web|url=http://www.backtothefuture.com/cast/mary-steenburgen/bttf3|title=Mary Steenburgen ("Clara Clayton Brown")|website=backtothefuture.com|access-date=February 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220062831/http://www.backtothefuture.com/cast/mary-steenburgen/bttf3|archive-date=February 20, 2019|url-status=dead}}

In 1990, the film won a Saturn Award for Best Music for Alan Silvestri and a Best Supporting Actor award for Thomas F. Wilson.{{cite web|url=http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html#film |title=Past Saturn Awards |publisher=The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films |access-date=November 28, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070404160758/http://www.saturnawards.org/past.html#selective |archive-date=April 4, 2007}} In 2003, it received an AOL Movies DVD Premiere Award for Best Special Edition of the Year, an award based on consumer online voting.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/awards|title=Back to the Future awards|website=IMDb|access-date=November 28, 2010|archive-date=March 27, 2004|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040327034133/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/awards|url-status=live}}

Co-writer and director Robert Zemeckis and co-writer Bob Gale, who have an agreement with Spielberg and Amblin that any further instalments in the Back to the Future franchise will not be made without their involvement, have stated that another film is "not going to happen".{{Cite web |last=Goldberg |first=Matt |date=2020-10-19 |title=Why Back to the Future 4 Won't Happen, According to Co-Writer Bob Gale |url=https://collider.com/back-to-the-future-4-why-it-wont-happen/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=Collider |language=en}} Gale commented that he did not wish to see another film in the series without the Marty McFly character nor any other actor than Michael J. Fox playing him, while acknowledging that Fox's current health condition would make this impossible. He illustrated this at a 2008 fan convention in Florida, stating: "The idea of making another Back to the Future movie without Michael J. Fox – you know, that's like saying, 'I'm going to cook you a steak dinner and I'm going to hold the beef.{{' "}}{{cite news | url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/back-to-the-future/remake-sequel-robert-zemeckis/ | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/film/back-to-the-future/remake-sequel-robert-zemeckis/ | archive-date=January 12, 2022 | url-access=subscription | url-status=live | title= Robert Zemeckis rules out Back to the Future remake | newspaper=The Telegraph | date=July 1, 2015 | access-date=July 7, 2015}}{{cbignore}} Gale also said that the Telltale video-game adaptation is the closest thing to what a fourth film could be like.{{cite AV media |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBdXEDRQsaA |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/jBdXEDRQsaA| archive-date=December 12, 2021 |url-status=live| title=Back to the Future: The Game – 30th Anniversary Edition Trailer| date=September 29, 2015| work=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} In an interview on October 21, 2015, the day of Marty McFly's purported arrival in the future, Christopher Lloyd stated that he would consider making a fourth film under the condition that the original cast and creative team returned, along with a story "worth telling".{{cite news | url= https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/10/21/back-to-the-future-30th-anniversary-christopher-lloyd/74175682 | title= Christopher Lloyd couldn't have foreseen this 'Future' | date= October 21, 2015 | work= USA Today | access-date= August 24, 2017 | archive-date= October 7, 2017 | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171007170314/https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2015/10/21/back-to-the-future-30th-anniversary-christopher-lloyd/74175682/ | url-status= live}} The same day, Lloyd reprised his role as Doc Brown in a brief segment in which the character returns with a special message marking the 2015 date.{{cite web |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwL0HZSc2Sc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/JwL0HZSc2Sc| archive-date=December 12, 2021 |url-status=live|title=The Future Is Now! - 10/21/15 – A Special Message From Doc Brown |author=Universal Pictures Home Entertainment |date=October 20, 2015 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web|url=https://people.com/celebrity/doc-brown-returns-with-a-special-back-to-the-future-day-message/|title='The Future Has Finally Arrived': Doc Brown Returns With a Special 'Back to the Future' Day Message|last=Kimble|first=Lindsay|work=People|date= October 21, 2015|access-date=December 29, 2022}} In 2020, actor Tom Holland claimed in an interview with BBC Radio 1 that he was approached by an unnamed producer over a possible reboot of the franchise with him starring the lead role as Marty McFly (or a similarly new character). However, Holland stated that he was reluctant to take up this offer as he described the existing films as "perfect films", though he would be interested in re-creating scenes from the films in a deep-fake homage video or short film.{{Cite web|url=https://screenrant.com/back-future-movie-remake-reboot-tom-holland-talks/|title=Tom Holland Confirms Back To The Future Remake Talks Have Happened|date=February 28, 2020|website=Screen Rant|access-date=February 7, 2021|archive-date=February 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214093221/https://screenrant.com/back-future-movie-remake-reboot-tom-holland-talks/|url-status=live}}

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