Back to the Future (musical) production in August 2014 due to "creative differences" with Zemeckis, the production's release date was pushed back to 2016. As of 2018, no more news or development has been announced. During a question and answer session at a 2004 DeLorean convention, Bob Gale said that "It seems like "Back to the Future" would make a great Broadway show. So someday, maybe that'll happen. That's something I'd like to see." In February 2012, it was first revealed that a musical adaption of the 1985 film "Back to the Future" was being developed and had been explored for around eight years prior.
Back to the Future to direct "Romancing the Stone" instead, which was a box office success. Now a high-profile director, Zemeckis reapproached Spielberg with the concept. Agreeing to produce "Back to the Future," Spielberg set the project up at his production company, Amblin Entertainment, with Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall joining Spielberg as executive producers on the film. The script remained with Columbia until legal problems forced them to withdraw. The studio was set to begin shooting a comedic send-up of "Double Indemnity" entitled "Big Trouble". Columbia's legal department determined that the film's plot was too similar to "Double Indemnity" and they needed the