Interviews with cast & crew (merged threads)

[jp-30]

The press release on http://www.telltalegames.com/bttf says

Telltale Games will release a new game series this winter as part of the milestone soon after the Blu-ray debut and DVD release of the 'Back to the Future 25th Anniversary Trilogy' on October 26,

So November 2010 is a resonable guess, I would say.

[Strayth]

I'm pretty sure a trailer for the game will be on the blurays.

[mightypirate]

I don't know if this has already been posted but here there is a nice interview by the Spoonyone to Dennis Lenart that will be director of the first episode of the BTTF game

It begins at 3.00
http://spoonyexperiment.com/2010/09/...to-the-future/

[der_ketzer]

really nice to see an interview from pax with spoony. I love that guy's videos.

[Vainamoinen]

"time travel is usually the problem as opposed to the solution"

...they really know what they're doing. Most of the time.

[doggans]

Good to see Spoony's excited about this. I love the guy, but he often finds a way to be pessimistic about things I'm excited about. :P

[Anthony817]

I hope this has not been posted before, as the video has less than 100 views, so I hope you learn something new and enjoy the view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pv2GH1fTxk

[mcfly88]

thanks for upping this bro

[Hero1]

thanks for posting

[Magic Emperor]

Fascinating! Thanks, Anthony!

[gamex12]

Great posting! Might inspire someone...still it don't to me

[Masta23]

yay, Christopher Lloyd is voicing Doc.. no word on Michael J Fox, though it could be tricky with his parkinsons.
One thing I'm curious about though. The delorean got destroyed at the end of the film trilogy, but yet it is going to be in the game? I suppose Doc could have rebuilt it, but why would he? as he built himself that new train time machine. As the game is supposed to take place atfer the 3 films, this is just something I have been pondering. I'm sure that all will be explained soon though.

[Toothless Gibbon]

Originally Posted by Masta23

One thing I'm curious about though. The delorean got destroyed at the end of the film trilogy, but yet it is going to be in the game? I suppose Doc could have rebuilt it, but why would he? as he built himself that new train time machine. As the game is supposed to take place atfer the 3 films, this is just something I have been pondering. I'm sure that all will be explained soon though.

Although the game might start after the the 3 films, it may take place before, during AND after them.

[Vivek]

http://www.screenjunkies.com/moviene...riter-bob-gale (Full interview)

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2010/10/15...r-fusion-lamp/

SJ: Will this video game they’re making at least give me sort of a fix for a sequel?

BG: Telltale is doing this computer game and they’re all fans of the movies and I’m consulting with them. It’s going to start in 1986 about six months after the events of Back to the Future. A new adventure with Marty and Doc and it will be in the spirit of Back to the Future. It’s not Back to the Future IV but it’s sort of a riff on it. We’ll try to recapture some of the spirit of the movies in this game.

SJ: Have you done some writing on the story of it?

BG: I haven’t done any writing but I have steered the guys doing the game in particular directions and kept them from going down certain paths that I thought we ought not go down.

SJ: Robert talks about his idea of a trilogy versus a series of four, which makes artistic sense, but I thought could this be a good use of his motion capture technology to do Back to the Future IV? Maybe Michael J. Fox could still play Marty, filming it in short segments he’s comfortable with.

BG: Again, the problem is that the bar is set so high, people are going to be disappointed no matter what we do. As good as we might be able to make it, there’s going to be people who are disappointed. Back to the Future doesn’t belong to us anymore. That happened when we did Part II. It belongs to everybody so everybody feels their opinion ought to be taken into account in what we do.

SJ: Isn’t it nice that people have come around to II though.

BG: Yes, it is.

SJ: I always thought it was more interesting to go back into the first movie, not so much the future.

BG: That’s the coolest idea we did, yeah. Bob Zemeckis deserves all the credit for coming up with that idea.

Here is the answer to something which has always bothered some fans.

SJ: One of the controversies of the sequels was Marty’s sudden obsession with being called “chicken.” Where did that come from?

BG: Well, we realized Part I is really George McFly’s story. Even though Marty’s the central character, George is the character that goes through a character arc. For another movie, we had to have somebody go through some character arc. We came up with something for Marty and we came up with something for Doc. We sort of alluded to the idea that Marty has a little bit of hotheadedness in him in the first one because he’s always ready to do at it with Biff. We just said, “That’s already in there. Let’s turn the volume up on that a bit and make that his real character flaw that had to be corrected in the course of this adventure.”

Seems like a valid explanation, which I had already assumed and that character trait felt natural. And it never really bothered me that much.

[monkeymovies]

So it's set in 1986? Cool!
Does that mean they're going with this plotline from the survey?

* …May 12th, 1986. After stopping Biff Jr. from getting in a fight with his time-displaced son, Marty leaves the dance floor and sneaks into Strickland’s office, looking for the keys to the detention hall. He doesn’t know how three teenagers from 2010 got their hands on a time-travelling Delorean, but the most important thing now is getting them locked up in one place before they mess up everyone’s future…assuming they haven’t already…

[doggans]

I believe they said they wouldn't be directly using any of the storylines from the survey; those were just to gauge what sorts of elements BTTF fans wanted.

[Ribs]

But... they said 1985 would be featured...

TIME TRAVEL CONFIRMED

[Clord]

Originally Posted by StLouisRibs

But... they said 1985 would be featured...

TIME TRAVEL CONFIRMED

Confirming the obvious?

[RAnthonyMahan]

http://www.cinemassacre.com/2010/11/...cio-interview/

Interesting stuff!

[Origami]

Thanks!