[0798] Back To The Future!
└ posted on Monday, 27 June 2016, by Novil
I wonder if it will be released before or after SONY’s emoji movie.
- Sign: Back to the Future – SONY/Columbia
- Talk show host: Tell us more about your “Back to the Future” reboot.
- SONY executive: Well, the original trilogy is horribly dated by now. Our reboot will make the franchise accessible to a modern audience again.
- Talk show host: What’s new?
- SONY executive: As a child of the 2010s, Marty no longer teaches his parents the wonders of rock’n’roll, but of social media and groundbreaking apps such as Snapchat™. There’s a really funny scene in which he carves an emoji into a tree.
- SONY executive: We also redefined the role of Doc. As a progressive scientist, he’s now always arguing in favor of clean energy and sustainability. In a similar way, the DeLorean will no longer be propelled by plutonium, but by the power of friendship and tolerance.
- Richard: I finally understand what it feels like to get triggered by micro-aggressions.
- Sandra: It’s Ye Thuza. She’s gathering a multi-ethnic terrorist group to blow up the SONY headquarters.
![[0798] Back To The Future!](/comics/2016-06-27-0798-back-to-the-future.png "[0798] Back To The Future!")
Wow just wow.
While reboots are currently “en vogue”, that sounds that bad my toes curl.
Reboots are the crap that happens because Hollywood has totally halted all creativity since the 80s, but it’s already made so many sequels, and remakes, and sequels to the remakes of the 80s movies that it’s running out of ideas for how to stretch them even thinner.
Sadly, Japan is beginning to follow the same path with anime.
China? Korea? Russia? PLS SAVE US
and the car will never go past 55 in order to be safer on the roads.
I have not watched the sequels, but the original was great. While funny for a comic, were this real the news page would include the tag “setting things on fire.” Note that this is coming from someone currently in college.
Just the next stage in Hollywood’s “No Childhood Left Unruined” agenda.
This… this isn’t happening, right?
(Then again, I said the same for Ghostbusters…)
(Oh crap.)
Why do I always find myself agreeing with (or at least sympathizing with) Ye Thuza?
Pretty sure Back to the Future’s made by Universal.
If they ever remake Back to the Future, the people responsible will learn what what the phrase “and hell followed with him” means.
I could get behind blowing up Sony’s HQ. What’s Ye Thuza’s email addy.
Added mention of this chapter of S&W on the BTTF Wikia: http://backtothefuture.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_references_to_Back_to_the_Future_(Internet)
Be thankful this can never come to pass. The people behind the original film are stalwartly against any reboots. It won’t happen without their approval.
I actually needed to go check to make sure this wasn’t real– there are so many reboots these days that this seemed almost plausible.
Thankfully, it’s not real. Heart attack averted.
I sense massive fail in Sony’s future.
There is so much ‘win’ here that I can’t even think!
Thank you Jim R for doing a reality check. We were all fearing the possibility of yet another crappy remake. Movies are so bad now it’s not even funny to joke about this stuff, jk. 😉
Great strip!
“In a similar way, the DeLorean will no longer be propelled by plutonium, but by the power of friendship and tolerance.”
That actually made me gag a little. It’s exactly something that Hollywood would think of.
@ Ryan:
Awesome avatar. 🙂
Wow… Sometimes, you just can’t be against certain terrorist groups. The Sony headquarters complex is in Minato, Tokyo. This will require flawless stealth and perfect timing to take all the buildings down simultaneously. You’ll have to go in at night so security and staff will be minimum. Place explosives in the first basements, especially around supports. Then pull a fire alarm on the first floor and make a break for it. This has to be done at the same time in each building. Someone observing from a vantage point will detonate the explosives before law enforcement or firefighters enter, but after as many people as possible leave the buildings. We are not trying for any casualties. Sound good?
@ Ryan:
Yeah, Thankfulyl Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale have stated that they will never allow a reboot of BBTF as long as they’re alive, and it seems they hold enough rights over the movies that they can really enforce that.
Power By Friendship! Trying to remember where I heard those words again???
@ Tonks Moriarty:
Also: “Hell is coming to breakfast.”
TvTropesgotmehooked wrote:
That or an opportunity to make the fuel something they could cash in on through product placement. Maybe like how original developments of the first film had it powered by Coke.
@ Antiyonder:
You were damn quick putting that on the Wiki. Great job!
You know, I wondered whether we were going to get a Brexit joke. Maybe later.
Where can I join Ye Thuza’s Anti-BTTF Remake army? Thank you
Cale wrote:
You are correct, so Sony is going to have to face Ye Thuza and Universal’s Lawyers.
@ Xezlec:
Don’t worry when all hope is lost I’m sure a Sandra and Woo movie will emerge to save western cinema. Fingers crossed.
WTH… It almost makes me want to puke… This is horrible…
@ Ryan:
The problem with that is that they’re mortal. I doubt we’ll see a week go by between their deaths and some big company announcing either the reboot or that they bought the rights to a reboot.
Oh geez, just shot me if that happens. 😛
@ CaptXpendable:
can someone please explain how remakes ‘ruin’ childhoods? I mean are people so stupid that they forget a the original when ever a movie is remade?
Ye Thuza’s response sounds thoroughly measured,
@ Jim R:
And thank god.
@ Brian:
Because of how often she’s RIGHT.
May “Back to the Future” never get a reboot. The franchise doesn’t deserve the fate of “Ghostbusters”.
@ TvTropesgotmehooked:
Funny thing: under the definition of “clean energy” as being free of particle emissions, plutonium IS clean.
*shudders* =_=
“Good job” on giving them full script, Novil=(
@ Formedras:
Besides it ran on it only twice. Later there was fusion and then… steam.
Hey Ye Thuza, if you’re looking for recruits. I’m down for the cause!
@ Pony-kour:
Just call Gojira. He hates toxic waste polluting the environment.
@ HMRC4EVR:
The 88mph thing was tongue in cheek. The Peugeot 4 cylinder that powered the Delorean was so weak that 60mph would have been a challenge. 88mph was truly a wonder only achievable by a mad scientist. Also why it wouldn’t start half the time.
Fabe wrote:
No, if they were there would be no problem.
It’s the cognitive dissonance between what they know is true (because they learnt it in childhood), and what they see on the screen, and in social media and adverts and everywhere.
Who needs Hollywood movies, as long as we get to read two new Sandra & Woo strips every week?
“In a similar way, the DeLorean will no longer be propelled by plutonium, but by the power of friendship and tolerance.”
I am a brony and I approve of that 😀
I’m begining to understand the appeal of international terrorism. First we blow up Sony, then entire Hollywood!
oh god, the cringe
THE CRINGE!!!!
Do I have to sign up somewhere, Ye Thuza? One more sabre to your orders.
@ Old Brit:
That, plus fans are often initially enthusiastic, thinking “Yay! More of (thing I loved)!” Thus, the disappointment is all the more crushing when they realize that the new version completely misses the point of the original
Night-X wrote:
I suspect this means the part of the Libyan terrorists will be played by Bronies.
@ Brian:
Sympathizing? I’m trying to sign on with her.
I just have one thing to say: Great Scott!