Watch Taylor Morden's BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II Remake Which Uses Homemade Clips From Fans
A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Taylor Morden, director of the documentary The Last Blockbuster, had decided to remake the classic film Back to the Future Part II using clips that fans send in covering approximately one minute each of the film. He called the remake “Project 88” because the film is cut into 88 segments. Fans signed up to make the movie in any form — live acting, claymation, puppets, whatever. Morden then cut the scenes together and released the film for all to see. It went pretty quick, because he’s actually done with it, and it’s really fun!
The best part is just seeing all the creative things people thought of. Some are pretty weird, but the collective end result is really fun. Here’s what Morden said about the project:
In this time of quarantine and self isolation, we wanted to come up with a fun creative project that people could do to work together towards a common goal.
The idea was to split the movie into 88 scenes and find people from around the world to recreate those scenes using whatever they had on hand during the various stay-at-home and physical distancing guidelines that were in place at the time (March 2020). Each team was given 1 week to complete their scene.
We were blown away by the creativity that this spawned! We ended up with over 300 people from 9 different countries contributing to the project! This "movie" contains actors of all ages and experience levels (including some fun cameos from the original actors of Back to the Future 2), puppets, animation, original music, cats, dogs, and even one scene performed entirely by bananas.
The best part of this process is that so many people told us after completing their scenes, that it was the best part of their week, or that it helped them take their minds of all of the craziness that is going in the world for even just a few hours.
We really hope you enjoy the "movie" and that maybe it inspired you to do something fun and creative as well!
Check it out below, and have fun!