Gale added: “Plus Michael J Fox isn’t in the shape to do a movie, and nobody wants to see Marty McFly having Parkinson’s disease, and nobody wants to see another actor playing Marty McFly if it’s supposed to be a continuation.
“We’ve already seen the Star Wars movies and Luke Skywalker is an old man. That can be a little bit painful, right?
“We learn from the fact that so many studios have gone back to the well on some of their franchise properties too many times, and the audiences are disappointed and say, ‘Oh my God, they ruined my childhood.’”
Nevertheless, the original Back to the Future movie has been made into a musical that is currently playing in Manchester ahead of a move to the West End later this year.
