USA Today is celebrating the fact that today is Oct. 21, 2015 - the date Marty goes to the future in Back To The Future Part II - by recreating the front page from the movie.
The newspaper’s front page today is a recreation of the Hill Valley Edition, including the “Youth Jailed - Martin McFly Junior Arrested For Theft” headline. Other headlines include “Cholesterol may be cancer cure,” “3 injured when mom re-hydrates pizza slices” and “Hollywood to remake A Match Made In Space,” referencing the book George McFly wrote. Another headline reads “Public more gullible than ever.”
Bob Gale, who co-wrote the Back To The Future movies with director Robert Zemeckis, told USA Today that they picked Oct. 21 because it would have been the end of the baseball season, since the MLB only had two rounds of playoffs in 1989. If the World Series was just ending, the film could have a joke about the Cubs finally winning.
“In 1989, there was only one set of baseball playoffs instead of two, so Oct. 21 would have been a likely date for the World Series to end if the Cubs had swept the team from Miami,” Gale said.
As for a fourth film, actor Christopher Lloyd told USA Today that a new film would have to deal with current issues. He’d only do it if everyone from the original films returned.
“There's always the danger of sequels not living up to the original, so it'd have to be something momentous and current: dealing with ISIS or climate change or something radical and have a real urgency to it,” Lloyd said. “I don't know what that would be."
Back To The Future Part II hit theaters in November 1989. Pepsi also celebrated the future finally coming by releasing Pepsi Perfect online, although it has already sold out on Amazon. As for USA Today, it has also changed its logo online to show the logo from the film.