‘Back To The Future’ stars join search for missing guitar from the movie
Gibson have teamed up with the stars of Back To The Future to begin a search for the famous guitar that Marty McFly played in the film.
The 1985 time travel comedy remains one of the most beloved movies ever made, and one of the signature moments from the film is a scene where McFly (Michael J Fox) sings ‘Johnny B Goode’ to a crowd of bemused 1950s teenagers at a school prom.
The film’s alternative timeline sees Chuck Berry’s cousin Marvin (Harry Waters, Jr.) call the star, making him listen to the new sound and thus ‘creating’ Rock n Roll.
During that scene, Fox plays a cherry red ES-345 Gibson guitar, which has been lost in the years since the movie. Now, a new documentary produced by the company is documenting the search to bring it back.
In the trailer for Lost To The Future, writer Bob Gale is joined by stars Fox, Waters, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson to put out a plea to find the instrument, urging those with information to submit tips to a phone number – 1-855-345-1955 – or visiting their website.
“We need your help, we’re trying to find the guitar I played in Back to the Future,” Fox said in the video. “It’s somewhere lost in the space-time continuum, or it’s in some teamster’s garage.”
“No one’s seen that guitar since 1985, and we need to find it” Waters adds. “Ask you friends, ask your relatives, ask your bandmates”. At the end of Fox’s segment, he is interrupted by Huey Lewis, repeating his cameo in the film by telling the star: “you’re just too damn loud”.
The Back To The Future trilogy was released between 1985 and 1990, spawning many spin-offs including a video game, stage musical, and cartoon series. However, the makers of the film have sworn there will never be a fourth movie, with Gale saying in February: “People always say, ‘When are you going to do Back to the Future 4, and we say, ‘Fuck you’”.
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Victoria Luxford
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