Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind director Michel Gondy is excited to remake the 1980's classic Back to the Future.

"Back to the Future is really a classic for me," Gondry says. "But I have to do it in 2 hours. I wrote the screenplay of this scene... Back to the Future as somebody would direct it if he had only 2 hours."

In Gondry's next film Be Kind, Rewind, Jack Black plays a man whose brain becomes magnetized. Black unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films which will include Rush Hour 2, Robocop, Boyz In The Hood and Back to the Future. Basically all the types of movies "that people would rent in a video store which doesn't carry DVDs," explains Gondry.

"There is a film camera that is shooting the making of, which is our actual movie, which slows us down, unfortunately," explained Gondry. "But it will be interesting to do it by memory, not watching the film."

Gondry also revealed that the crew has been banned from going back to the actual movies because they might try "to perfectly reenact all the cinema." And that isn't something Gondry wants. The crew were only given permission to look at the VHS boxes for prop purposes.

"Everybody comes up with their own visions in terms of art direction... it's how they would do it," Gondry told AICN. "But it's hard because we are making film for our living, so we are not like those guys. We have to think of how you would do it if you had 2 hours to do it."

In an interview last week, Gondry also revealed that he will be unable to feature one of the films he had scripted due to rights issues.

"The rights situation in the world is getting ridiculous," he says. "I have to reimagine a quarter of my film one week before I shoot. It’s absurd. We are not allowed to shoot graffiti without the permission of the person who drew it, even something like ‘f — you.'"

Obtaining the rights can be a lot of trouble.

"We needed authorization from every director, writer, producer for each movie we are doing," explained Gondry.

Be Kind, Rewind starts shooting in just 2 weeks. Gondry's latest, The Science of Sleep, hits theaters on Friday, September 22nd 2006.