Marty would be teenager from today. He’d be livestreaming Doc Brown’s experiment. He’d see his dad watching the dancing baby in the 90s and be like, “I’ve seen this meme, it’s classic”. They’d be like, “wtf is a meme”.
Super Mario Brothers was released closer to WWII than to today.
Joe Biden was born closer to the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln than to his own.
Please for the love of all the gods do not give studio execs this idea or they’ll be scrabbling for a remake.
Scrambling?
Nope, scrabbling. The film will be written using whatever words the writers use in their scrabble game
The original director and screenwriter aren’t allowing anyone to do a remake, so I guess we are safe as long as they are alive.
https://consequence.net/2025/07/back-to-the-future-why-no-remake-sequels/
Robin Williams did Aladdin on the proviso nobody would do a remake.
Heroes
My guess is that the time machine would be a Pontiac Grand Am.
Doc breathes you made a TIME machine catches breath out of a CyberTruck?
Einstein explodes
How about a Pontiac Aztek?
Marty would rap a bbno$ song that the kids wouldn’t be ready for.
He would play Daft Punk and they wouldn’t be ready for it.
Naw, he’d play something more incomprehesible to the 90s, like skrillex or the later evolutions of the genre.
Maybe some manic hyperpop
I feel like Dillon Francis is the right level of “starts out normal enough, then devolves into chaos”
“I Need YOU YOu You you yo y-”
I feel like he’d start talking in brain rot and be like, “Your kids are gonna love it.”
“Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘99… wear… sunscreen.”
Harder!
This is a remake I’d watch.
I think the difference is between how much things were chamging back then. The 50s were very different to the 80s. Technology changed completely and also the 80s were post-vietnam which caused huge changes in the culture. As for the 90s its all about digital technology and computers aaand so is today? Theres a reason for(at least for people arround me cause im gen z 💀) our grandparents being ‘technology shocked’ so much while our parents grew up sorta with the same stuff as us. Yes the access was different but my mom used to play pirated videogames on a computer at the library. That definitely wasnt a thing in the 50s. Thats my perspective at least. Also me being eastern european may influence this cause for us time and progression was locked for so long and the 80s freed all of it up.
In 1998, my father sent me to school with a pager you could leave voice messages on. My friends were amazed how advanced it was.
1995-2005 was all about Chatrooms (AOL, IRC, AIM) and early social media. 2015-2026 is all about Chatrooms and social media being taken over by corporate interests, state actors, and political public opinion manipulation all posing as the AOL, IRC, AIM era.
And then he’d be in the future of '56 where people are calling each other “choom” and solar power doesn’t work cause of all the dust and pollution in the sky, but people wear two neckties sometimes.
Sounds nova
Stop, stop, it’s getting too real!
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Blame it on the Rain. I’d be like “oh I’ve seen these guys before, they lip sync and the guy on the left is about to die.”
Dad crawls out from under the desk
“Hey hey hey, now we can surf the World Wide Web!”
Marty: “Hey I’ve seen this funny image before.”
Kid: “How have you seen it before? It just got posted.”
Marty: “Yeah, it’s a… repost.”
Kid: “What’s a repost?”
Wow what a reference lol
1996!
Watch as my corporeal form fades into dust.
The more important question, what car would be the one modified ti become a time machine?
In the category of “quirky and iconic but affordable sports car just a few years old at the time of the plot” there’s probably only one obvious choice for 1995: Mazda MX-5
Based on the stainless steel body requirements, I know the answer and I don’t like it.
If they remake BTTF with a Cybertruck we should burn down the movie studio
Yeah, remember Doc Brown’s reason for choosing the DeLorean was because, “If you’re gonna travel through time, you ought to do it in style”.
Cybertruck is not style unless you are a brain-rotted seven-year-old.
Maybe a Rivian? You’d have to come up with a different issue other than the car not starting, like the difficulty of charging it or something.
I think about joke in the movie would be its supposed to be a cyberpunk, but the vehicle falls apart during a test run, so they use a Ford focus instead.
What car could they be referring…
stainless steel body…
AH FUCK YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH
Took me a second and I wish I hadn’t figured it out
Like, yeah, that’s how time and math work.
But not how humans tend to perceive the passage of time.
