Bollywood Is Remaking Back To The Future

By Peter Sciretta/Dec. 31, 2008 12:50 pm EST

Is Bollywood remaking Back to the Future? RealBollywoodNews is reporting that Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai have been cast in Action Replay (yeah, horrible title...), a film which will be unofficially based on the popular 1985 Robert Zemeckis film Back to the Future. BTTF.com was able to contact Future producer/screenwriter Bob Gale who denied any knowledge of the production.

Bollywood has a long history of "borrowing" film storylines from popular Hollywood films (google "bollywood star wars"). The ages of the two leads (41 and 35 respectfully) confirm that it won't be a close adaptation. Action Replay will begin production in February 2009.