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I generally don't like musicals except for Enchanted, which I attribute to Disney kind of making fun of itself. However I've never seen a proper stage musical and as BTTF is one of my favourite films ever, I went to see the musical earlier this year.

I can't deny I was really entertained all the way through but I had no idea there was going to be about five minutes of "normalcy" before another song kicks in. I think there's around 14 songs in total.

Part of the magic is what is achieved on stage for sequences like the DeLorean driving around trying to get up to speeds of 88mph. I feel some of that would be lost in a transition to film because, in a way, that already exists.

I don’t hate this - I enjoyed the musical movie version of The Producers!

as Zemeckis has already pitched the idea at Universal and “they don’t get it.”

I'm with them. I don't get it. It sounds like a horrible idea.

Zemeckis, are you okay? Do we need to call someone?

I could see this working if it were done in the style of "End of Evangelion", and it ended with Marty straddling and strangling Doc, for all of eternity.

I generally dislike musicals (with some exceptions like Dancer in the Dark and Moulin Rouge!), but the Back to the Future franchise seems like a bad fit for a musical.

More so than most franchises, Back to the Future feels very tied to the zeitgeist of its time (80s to early 90s).

Then again, they made Joker 2 a musical (I recently found out about this and had to double check that this wasn't a joke).

if the franchise was disney's, it already would have been done, and it wouldn't have taken til 2021 to get it on stage in the first place, either.