Back to the Future starring Andy Samberg and Bill Nye

Welcome back to another edition of What If? A Series of Absurd Casting, a blog where I make the most absurd alternate casting choices for fairly popular films. Why settle for the original when you can ask “what if?” and add your spin on a film?

 

I’m incredibly excited for this edition of “What if?” we will be focusing on the 1985 science-fiction adventure comedy Back to the Future directed by Robert Zemeckis. This fun film has been a family favorite and never fails to amaze me, which adds a lot of pressure for this recasting. Since this is yet again the first film in a successful trilogy, I’ll sadly only be casting the major characters.

Back to the Future (1985) follows the time-travelling adventures of Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) who is just your average teenager in the Eighties. He’s an aspiring musician with a loving girlfriend, Jennifer (Claudia Wells) but has a rather depressing family life at home. His father George (Crispin Glover) is a pushover and his mother Lorraine (Lea Thompson) is a depressed alcoholic but Lorraine never fails to remind Marty that she met his father after she accidentally hit him with her car.

On October 26, 1985 Marty joins his scientist friend Dr. Emmett Brown a.k.a Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) in the Twin Pines Mall parking lot to help him out with a project. Doc shows Marty the time machine he built from an old DeLorean that runs on plutonium. To demonstrate his invention Doc puts the date he built the machine November 5, 1955 for an example. Unfortunately the group of Libyan terrorists that Doc Brown stole plutonium from visits them. They shoot Doc and Marty attempts to escape in the DeLorean but accidentally activates the time machine and ends up in 1955 without the fuel he needs to return to 1985.

While in the past, Marty ends up running into both of his parents as high schoolers and actually interferes with their initial first meeting. Marty has now changed the entire course of his and the entire town of Hill Valley’s history. Now Marty must do everything in his power to save his existence by bringing his parents together while trying to return to the present.

Like every other fan of the Back to the Future franchise, I usually would say that I couldn’t think of a better time-travelling duo than Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. Although, times have changed, I’ve fallen down a deep whole of absurd casting choices and retract my earlier statement. There DEFINITELY is a great is not better duo that would kick butt as Marty and Doc Brown. What if Andy Samberg and Bill Nye starred in Back to the Future? All right take it easy everyone. I know this just might be my greatest alternate absurd casting yet but just wait because it does get better.

Andy Samberg

Andy Samberg is one of the funniest and most daring actors of this generation. If you’ve seen his performance in Hot Rod (2007) you can agree that this guy is wild and definitely Marty McFly material. Samberg carries that clueless and always surprised personality that really defines Marty McFly as a character. 

Bill Nye

I know that Bill Nye is the science guy that isn’t too different from the actual character of Doc Brown but come on everyone loves Bill Nye! Plus you got to admit it’d be awesome to see him team up with Samberg and seriously try to save Marty McFly’s existence.

Ladies and gentlemen, I invite you to join me on this journey through time, just kidding. But please enjoy a snippet of my alternate casting of Back to the Future starring Andy Samberg and Bill Nye.

Marty McFly (Andy Samberg) is just an average teen with average hobbies like playing guitar, hanging out with his girlfriend, and hanging out with a very old and bizarre scientist that can steal plutonium from terrorists. On October 26, 1985 Marty meets up with his friend Doc Brown (Bill Nye) to test out a new experiment. 

Doc shows Marty the time machine he invented using a 1985 Honda Accord and is powered by plutonium. He tests out the machine by sending his dog Einstein into the Accord and hopefully making him the first time traveller. After the demo Marty freaks out and says, “Jesus Christ Doc! Einstein is dunzo! What have you done bro? How did you make that Accord travel in time?” Doc responds, “Well Marty you can do just about anything with science because science rules.” Marty looks up puzzled and says, “That really doesn’t answer my question but okay!”

Fast-forward or rewind to the year 1966, the year Marty ends up at when he accidentally drives off in the Accord. Marty hops out of the car and begins to stroll around the town square and when he realizes what era he’s in he sings out loud “I JUST TRAVELLED IN TIME AND IT FELT SO GOOD!” Luckily for him, no one too important heard his noise. But once he walks into a diner he spots his father (in teenage form) and is unaware of what to do. Young George McFly sees Marty and says, “Hey, I saw you staring at me from over there. Do I know you?” Marty replies, “Not yet pops. Shoot. Sorry I meant to say George.” George responds, “How do you know my name?” Marty panics and spits out, “Um I read minds! Yeah that’s right I read ‘em buddy so watch out.” Throughout the rest of the film George is constantly jittery and nervous around Marty because he is truly convinced he’s a mind reader.

When Lorraine accidentally hits Marty with her car and calls him Calvin, because his boxers say Calvin Klein, Marty says, “Ooh girl why are you looking at my undies? That’s wild. I kind of dig it,” Lorraine goes in for a kiss and Marty continues, “Whoa wait no! Back off mom! I meant Lorraine, shoot! I read minds and um I sense that you and a guy named George McFly will get married and have some cool children and that’s it.” Just like that Marty is able to get Lorraine and George to meet despite interrupting the point in time they were supposed to initially meet.

That’s all we have for you guys today! Don’t forget to stop by again next time when we do another absurd alternate casting of a well-known film. Always remember, don’t steal plutonium from people no matter how badly you may need it because it honestly doesn’t help anyone out!