Christopher Lloyd Goes Back to the Future Again

Posted on Sunday, February 17th, 2008 by Peter Sciretta

Doc Brown has Returned

Roads? Where we’re going we don’t need roads…

Christopher Lloyd has stepped back in front of the cameras, reprising the now classic role of Doc Brown from the Back to the Future trilogy. But sadly this film shoot was not for a fourth Back to the Future film. This time the mad time-traveling scientist makes an appearance in a new music video by Universal Motown recording artist O’neal McKnight Featuring Greg Nice.

If my calculations are correct, the last time Lloyd appeared as Doc Brown was in 1992 for live-action segments of the Back to the Future animated series (Actually, I just remembered that Lloyd also returned as the famous Doc for a Back to the Future Slot Machine in Las Vegas).

Christopher Llyod as Doc Brown

The new music video, directed by ‘X’, features a bearded Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown and an adventure involving the DeLorean time machine. McKnight goes back to the future with Doc Brown to get a glimpse into his life and relationship with a beautiful lady whom he meets while at a New York City dance club.

No details on when the video will be released (or for that matter, where it will be played, since MTV no longer plays music videos, at least from what I gather). For now we’ll have to settle for a set of these photo stills, and a behind the scenes video which is available for your viewing pleasure on BTTF.com.

Doc Brown is Back

Discuss: Would you like to see a Back to the Future 4? Pitch me your story ideas!

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  • I don't know about slot machines, but I do remember Doc Brown appearing last year (2007) in DirecTV ads. It wasn't as good asCharlie Sheen's 'Wild Thing' though.
  • Jim - How could I have forgotten about the DirecTV ads....
  • VishR
    I loved the Back to the Future series, it would be nice to have a remake of the series with a different story line. It would be tough to replace the original cast
  • Matt
    i would flip for Back to the Future: Part Four... it would be especially difficult considering the DeLorean's destruction and Doc's leave in Part Three, not to mention Micheal J. Fox's ever worsening disabilities. Or the fact that the future portrayed in Part Two is absolutely nothing like the times we currently live in (however.. that WAS set 7 years from now). I think we can all agree that a reboot would not be possible without Fox or Lloyed.
  • I think the best way to do a fourth film would be to make a quasi remake. Have Llyod back as an older Doc Brown, and go back in time to the 60's, 70's or maybe even the 80's. The technological advances in the last 20 years would be more than enough fuel for the comedy.I'm sure Michael J Fox could film a quick cameo, as could Biff and the rest of the gang.
  • J. Luna
    Damn Right I would. But only if the OG cast and director return. And the story? Just give us the same thing but bigger! i.e. Doc brown visits a middle aged Marty Mc fly and tell him that he's actually been in trapped in an alternate time line since the end of the third one, and if they want to save the universe then they have to go back and set some things straight even if it means that Biff might end up getting the last laugh ...and his girl.

    ...And then we go into space with Rambo for no reason at all.
  • Manny
    I would give ANYTHING for a BTTF4...ANYTHING.
  • Brody
    How bout Marty goes into the Future to find a cure for his ALS.
  • nitroslick
    @ Brody

    What an unbelievably tasteless, crude, unfunny remark. You're an asshole!
  • Zach
    NO, NO I DO NOT!!!!!


    and the main reason that I don't want it to happen, is because I actually figured out the PERFECT way for them to make a BTTF4 and/or a remake of the original (ex. who to cast, the story, etc.) and it works out so perfectly well, that I am terrified that it could happen, and could/will ruin my favorite movie of all time. And thus I refuse to even say it over the internet because of how perfect it is, and I don't want anyone getting any ideas.

    Guys, think about it, they can't make a BTTF4...they just can't...

    If one movie from the 80's is kept scared please, oh god please let it be Back to the Future...
  • blahblah
    i really do not understand michael j fox.

    he wants to raise money for stem cell research,
    then why not make and distribute bttf4 independently without universal and then use the billions from that? he'd have a cure by now?

    because Lloyd and the world clearly wants a 4th.
    the hard part is getting Gale, Zemeckis and Fox on board.

    oh and I have the best plotline for BTT4.
  • Rick
    Traveling back and forth through time has a lot of potential, but I can't really think of a plot line that I'd lay down $20 at the theater to go see. In keeping with comedy, and with what they've already done: Saving Marty's parents, saving his kids, saving his ancestors, himself, and Doc, I really don't know what could be left and still be funny. Furthermore, a remake of any/all of 'em would be a bad idea. They're all classics.

    "Crazy scientist invents a time-traveling car and his zany young friend travels back and forth through time getting into mischief, forcing the crazy scientist to create crazy yet funny ways to fix the time lines; thus restoring the balance of the space/time continuum... maybe just a little bit better than it was... for them."

    /shrug
  • dan
    Lloyd also appeared as Doc last year in a video/live segment at a Microsoft convention.
  • Matias Blankenshroete
    This horrible dreck labeled as "music" does not deserve Doc Brown in any way, shape, or form. Sorry, but it cheapens the whole BTTF franchise for it to be used in this awful context. What's next, Fiddy and the Coreys vs. Edward Hermann?
  • simondo
    back to the future part 4

    it could be political, and have marty going back to make sure BUSH never got in. :)

    but seriously, it should be left alone. just like indy, the ending to the indy trilogy was more than perfect.
  • blahblah
    hey Matias Blankenshroete,

    forget about your hatred for music by black artists and think.

    has it occurred to you that maybe Lloyd is doing
    these Doc appearances with the intent of inciting
    web buzz about a possible bttf4?
    because that's the reason he's doing them.
    because there is a market for it.
  • Dustin Ravize
    A lot of people don't know this, but Microsoft made a horrible Back to the Future spoof last year in June with Christopher Lloyd.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-ShkqYF8Y&...
  • Matias Blankenshroete
    Is that right, blahblah? You're tight with Lloyd and he told you this first-hand?

    I really shouldn't respond to someone who has proved their intellectual weakness in their previous posts (actually, your comment on Michael J. Fox borders on offensive besides just being ignorant), but I must point out that YOU are the one who has used the word "black" in an attempt to call me a racist.

    I stand by my comment that the original video artist's music is in my opinion poor, and that matching it with BTTF is absurd. The idea that Lloyd would use the opportunity to somehow culturally jump-start a Part 4 "movement" is ridiculous.
  • Julie K.
  • Brody
    @ Nitro Slick

    Take the balls out of your mouth and relax.
  • BTTF Part IV will never happen folks. Gale and Zemeckis are done with BTTF movies. But that doesn't mean there couldn't be anything else on the horizon.
  • Randy, I know Zemeckis and Gale have been against the idea since the release of BTTF3, but sometimes people change. Zemeckis is really trying to push this whole performance capture 3D technology, but so far the box office results havent been incredible. When I interviewed Beowulf producer Steve Starkey (i think...) at the Beowulf junket, I asked about the possibility of a new back to the future using performance capture. He smirked but didn't deny the possibility. I'm not saying its going to happen but everything in Hollywood eventually gets remade. It's ust how it goes. One day BTTF will be back on the big screen. It's just a question of how long until it happens.

    And what exactly do you mean by "that doesn’t mean there couldn’t be anything else on the horizon."?
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  • The Doc showed up just last year (2007) in longform on stage at TechEd...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Brown#Micro...

    I used to have a link to the vid, its floating around and god-awful.
  • Dustin Ravize
    James,

    A comment and link to that video was already posted, look above.

    but for a quick reference,

    here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-ShkqYF8Y&...
  • Just A Fan
    He also appeared in updated live action segments for the Back to the Future ride/attraction at Universal Studios several years ago.
  • jeff
    here is an idea, go back in time and don't kill hitler, or save JFK, instead, tap bush and cheney in the head each when their not yet evil dictators bent on destroying america.
  • jin green
    i am a young and handsome man from us. i just wonder if i can meet a rich momma here, because i am at the beginning of my career and i need someone's support..i uploaded my hot photos on sugarmommameet.com under the name piccolo , maybe you want to check out my photos first!
  • jeff
    sorry about the hate speach, it was just a hopeful idea. No real chance of it happening, just a plot for a movie. don't take it too seriously
  • Nick Wilson
    He also reprised his role at the TechED 2007 conference in Orlando last year for Microsoft. This was for the keynote on the first day.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi3xmc1mpXQ
  • Rocky
    My idea -or maybe i just heard it somewhere years ago and now claim it as my own- would be a 4th film that centers around Doc's sons, Jules and Vern, all grown up. Maybe played by Owen and Luke Wilson. They take the train time machine and go to the future and make a new time machine out of some bad ass new car -or steal the Delorian at some point and put it back before anyone is the wiser. Don't know what the plot could be, just a premise.
  • Rocky
    Or just do it as a video game -like the Ghostbusters, that way michael j fox could be in it...
  • You should re-calculate. He appeared in 2007 for Microsoft.HERE YA GO
  • justpassingthru
    I would much prefer a new tv series, of a similar feel to heroes and lost. With each season being set in a different era of time, i.e. season 1 1955, season 2 2015, season 3, 1885 etc and set the series to be more about the characters and the era rather than focusing too much on the time travel aspect but rather making that an ongoing subplot.
  • Matt
    on second thought, nevermind. i want hollywood to leave bttf alone. especially zemeckis with his motion capture gimmicks.
  • Itaintirte
    How about... a teen suddenly shows up and kidnaps Marty to the future where another time machine has been stolen and they must retrieve it before the threads of time are unraveled!!! How original is that? Sounds nthing like Meet the Robinsons!
  • Sorry. But you are wrong. Anyways I am happy to see the man.
  • SR
    would love a BTTF4, however without the original cast it just a no go in my opinion, as it will always be compared to the other 3. It just wouldn't be as good as no doubt they would try to be different and in doing so would mess it up and ruin an already amazing trilogy.
  • Please do not ruin the original trilogy by tacking on some lame 4th movie that will be nothing more than an easy money grab.
  • Patrick Yoness
    Back to the Future 4 plot:
    Doc Brown discovers that time travel causes nerve damage when Marty starts twitching uncontrolably. He must risk his own health by traveling into the future to find a cure.
  • Excellent news!
  • It's funny to look at this, when a lot of people thought he was so typecasted from the show TAXI that he would never had another job. As it ends up, he actually fell into his biggest gig yet.

    I love the old series, I wish there was a 4th!
  • Man, I'm as big a fan as anyone when it comes to BTTF. I bought the trilogy 3 years ago, and watched the original on VHS as a kid at least once a week. However, I'm getting tired of them taking something that was so great and ruining it to make a buck. Same with Indiana Jones, I'm a huge fan and want to see Harrison bring the role back, but I just don't think it will work this time around.
  • Nitroslick, why the hell can't you simply track Brody down and beat the ever-loving shit out of him for that comment? I hate it when people just sit back and do nothing. Track that mother fucker down and go to his house with a baseball bat and just go off like a fucking canon. Don't hold anything back. And then when he's outside lying down in the yard bleeding, take a 5 gallon bucket of gas and sprinkle it all over his house, toss a match and tell him that you hope he dies. Then walk away, spitting on him as you leave. If he has any cars parked out front, be sure to put a knife in all of the tires. Thanks and good day.
  • TIM
    DON'T MESS WIYH PERFECTION .
  • Suzie Gordon
    This is great! I am friends with his neice. His nephew stars on the TV show "Scrubs." My daughter absolutely loves all 3 of the movies and has the triology. When she was younger she was afraid of him when he played Judge Doom in Roger Rabbit. I loved his role as Reverend Jim in Taxi.
  • Seamus Mcfly
    Make a movie about Martys son. Set it in 2015, as in BTTF2, but 2015 is nothing like what it was in BTTF2...no flying cars and things like that. Set it on the day that Marty and Doc came to the future to and then Martys son, steals the time machine and almost causes a major paradox, and goes back in time and almost stops everything that happened in the first 3 films from happening.
  • Seamus Mcfly
    Oh as for suggestions, as to who would be in the movie....maybe Shia Lebouef(transformers as Martys other son). To that dude who made that comment about MJF's Parkinsons, Im sure that even with his sickness, he's still more of a man than you ever will be.
  • Rosa
    I think that BACK TO THE FUTURE IV IS POSSIBLE, thousands of fans are looking forward this to happen all around the world !!(I´m from Spain).

    But ZEMECKIS and BOB GALE must accept the challenge, in order to make sure that the result is on the same level as the previous trilogy or even better, not only a huge success but also a hight quality film, coherent with the plot we all know and innovative in many senses, we are in the digital era! anything could be carried out.

    I´d personally like the film to be set in the future, from 2015 on..., with Elijah Wood playing the part of Marty or his son: he is the best choice! because Michael J. Fox is not in a fit state for the time being, although he could play a cameo role, as well as Christopher LLoyd (he could be considered, but he is old for the role, from my point of view).

    There have been sequels from Superman or Alien, that didn´t raise as much money as Back to the Future. And this is getting up to date as we can see in other tittles like Indiana Jones, Star Wars or James Bond.

    Will be there a future for Back to the future IV?
  • Joel
    Well if they were ever to make a BTTF4 they wouldn't be able to have Fox revive the role of Marty, because of his current state. I believe the best solution would be to have Doc's kids do the traveling. this way we could still open the movie with the ending to the 3rd and also have cameo's by Doc and Claira.

    Doc's kids could tavel to the future or the past in the train. As for the reason they would travel, I would say that because they have been traveling in train for many years and they travel to the future and discover that their traveling has in someway destroyed life on the planet. So they will have to travel to the past to find what went wrong and where it happend, and try to fix it. This would allow cameo's by all former cast members and also would be a good segway to the introductions of Jules and Vern.

    I would love to see another BTTF but I find it hard to believe that they could match the perfection they hit in the 1st 3 movies. I wouldn't want them to sour the name of the BTTF trilogy by making a sub-par movie, but on the other hand, who wouldn't love to see another BTTF?
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