Michael J Fox has been talking about the possibility of giving beloved sci-fi trilogy Back to the Future the reboot treatment without the original cast.
The actor, who played Marty McFly in Robert Zemeckis's saga, said he would be okay with someone else playing the part that catapulted him to stardom.
"I'm not fanatical," he told Variety. "Do what you want. It's your movie. I got paid already."
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Elaborating, Fox said that the director and his writing partner Bob Gale wouldn't be thrilled with the decision to re-do the story.
"I don't think it needs to be," Fox said. "I think Bob and Bob have been really smart about that.
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"I don't think it needs rebooting because are you going to clarify something? You're going to find a better way to tell the story? I doubt it."
The star also revealed he was never approached to continue the story of Doc and Marty past the third outing of the saga, Part III, released in 1990.
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"I was in the early stages of Parkinson's at that point, so I don't know that I would have wanted to take that on," he said.
"Right after Part Three had done well, there might have been conversations about it, but I never got involved in them."
As for Fox's co-star, it seems that Christopher Lloyd is a bit more open to the idea of returning as Doc.
"I would love to do a sequel, but I think Bob Zemeckis and [producer Steven] Spielberg felt that they told the story in the three episodes," he said.
"But if somebody has a brilliant idea that would justify a fourth film it might happen."
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