Robert Zemeckis

11 Incredible Secrets About The Making Of Back To The Future

Back To The Future turns 30 this year — and this fall, Marty McFly arrives from the past. And a new book travels back and reveals a wealth of info about this legendary film. We read We Don’t Need Roads by Caseen Gaines and dug up 11 things you never knew about Back to the…

Back to the Future Wasn’t Supposed to Have a Sequel

Great Scott! Did you know that Back to the Future was never supposed to have a sequel? Imagine that reality for a second — a world without Marty McFly’s hoverboard and shoes and flying DeLorean? The mind reels! Director Robert Zemeckis explained it all in Empire magazine’s oral history of Back to the Future: We’d…

Dream Team. Robert Zemeckis directing a film version of Patrick Ness’ The Knife of Never Letting Go, with a screenplay by Charlie Kaufman? Yes please.

Witness Back to the Future II‘s homages to It’s a Wonderful Life

Back to the Future director Robert Zemeckis is a great fan of that alternate reality holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life, and he’s never made a secret of the fact that the Biff-ruled Hill Valley of Back to the Future Part II is an homage to the neon-filled Pottersville George Bailey travels through. This video,…

3D Roger Rabbit sequel will be set in the past, still hand drawn

The cartoony noir classic Roger Rabbit is ready for a sequel — but how are they going to transition it to the 21st century? Will it be set in modern times? Will animated characters get replaced by CG Pixar creatures? Does anyone actually want a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? In an interview with…

Back to the Future, the Broadway Musical?

A Back To The Future musical? We don’t know how to feel about this. Deadline is reporting that director Robert Zemeckis is in early talks with BTTF writer Bob Gale and film composer Alan Silvestri about translating their time traveling masterpiece to the stage. This movie is packed with the wacky gags and hijinks that…

How Mars Needs Moms killed the Yellow Submarine remake

While we’re sad that Disney’s Mars Needs Moms was box office poison, we can’t help but thank this picture for killing Robert Zemeckis’ misguided Yellow Submarine remake. One thing is certain: mo-cap films will never be the same again. We may have sorta liked Mars Needs Moms, but sadly, the rest of the world felt…

Roger Rabbit sequel definitely still happening

Producer Robert Zemeckis verifies that the Roger Rabbit sequel still hasn’t been plunged into a giant vat of dip. We’re still not 100% behind Roger Rabbit 2 – but like it or not, here it comes. MTV caught up with Zemeckis, only to find out that the original screenwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman…

Things we learned at the Back To The Future reunion

Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Bob Gale, Neil Canton, Robert Zemeckis and Huey Lewis all gathered in New York, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Back To The Future. Here’s what we learned. How Zemeckis made the first flat screen TV. Robert Zemeckis: You know how we had to do…

Exclusive look inside Back To The Future 2’s futuristic world

Five years from now, on Oct. 21st 2015, Marty, Doc and Jennifer return to Hill Valley in Back To The Future II. Watch our exclusive behind-the-scenes look inside the McFly kitchen and check out some see never-before-seen futuristic concept art. Here’s a closer look at some of those appliances, all which had to be glued…

First look at Disney’s Mars Needs Moms

Don’t take your mother for granted, or aliens will come down from Mars, kidnap her, and horribly scar you for life. That’s the message of Robert Zemeckis’ final Disney production, Mars Needs Moms. Here’s your first look. Based on the book by Berkeley Breathed, this film marks the final Zemeckis foray into the uncanny valley.…

Never-before-seen footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in Back To The Future

To celebrate the 25th Anniversary of Back To The Future, we’ve got never-before-seen footage of original star Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly. Plus Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Bob Gale all explaining why they replaced him with Michael J. Fox. Don’t get us wrong, we’re Fox fans through-and-through, but it’s exceptionally shocking how perfect Eric…

Robert Zemeckis wants his old time-travel movie making job back… or maybe the Superman gig

Robert Zemeckis hasn’t quite found much success with his super-elaborate motion-capture and CG movies of late. So he’s getting back to what he does best: live-action time travel movies, with Timeless… while casually courting the Superman director’s chair. [Deadline]

Robert Zemeckis is Going Back to the Future

Okay, not back to Back to the Future — he’s signed on to direct a near-future underwater adventure called Dark Life. But, hey, it’s Zemeckis and scifi — everybody wins. The Oscar-winning director who’s given us Back to the Future, Death Becomes Her, Contact, and Beowulf is planning to adapt Kat Falls’ upcoming YA novel…

Mars Needs Moms, But Disney Doesn’t Need Bob Zemeckis’ Company

Disney has closed the doors to Robert Zemeckis’s motion-capture studio ImageMovers Digital. But in the wake of this destruction comes some interesting news. Disney is still moving forward with mo-cap Yellow Submarine and Mars Needs Moms. The New York Times announced that ImageMovers was done. The San Francisco company would slowly start wrapping production and…

The Avatar Debate: It Will Be An Awesome Visual Spectacle

Will Avatar keep its technological promises? We’ve seen a huge backlash against the film’s CGI, and our sibling site suspects it will suck. But when it opens, Avatar will prove a remarkable advance in motion capture and computer animation. https://gizmodo.com/are-you-ready-for-the-avatar-backlash-5323234 http://gawker.com/5411346/the-mounting-evidence-that-avatar-will-suck-part-1 Granted, I make this assertion not as one of those folks who saw the…

Could Avatar’s Technology Improve Medicine?

Directors like James Cameron and Robert Zemeckis are using motion capture and computer animation to place actors in unusual bodies and fantastical environments. But the medical community is increasingly utilizing technology originally designed for movies and video games. Cameron has promised us that Avatar represents a huge technological advancement, a blending of real-world performances and…

Avatar Designer: Blue Aliens Mean You Don’t Have to be Politically Correct

Avatar has already been compared to Dances With Wolves, but the film’s production designer says it also has dashes of Tarzan and Apocalypse Now. He explains why aliens are perfect for “going native” stories, and talks James Cameron–Robert Zemeckis rivalry. The LA Times’ Hero Complex talked to Rick Carter, the production designer on Avatar. Carter…

Roger Rabbit And Friends Get An Upgrade To Motion Capture?

Two new tidbits from Toon Town have leaked out this week. First, the Roger Rabbit sequel has retained the original screenwriters for its new script. And second, major hints are being dropped that the animated characters may go Mo-Cap. In an interview with MTV Robert Zemeckis revealed that the next Roger Rabbit film will retain…

Yellow Submarine Remake? It’s All Too Much

Disney have officially announced their motion-capture CGI 3D remake of the Beatles‘ Yellow Submarine. The remaining Beatles have given their blessing, but we can’t help but wonder whether this is finally one remake too far. The official announcement was made over the weekend, and the accompanying press release quotes Disney Studios chairman Dick Cook as…