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.
Hill Valley (Back to the Future) book store. The Essex movie theater now shows porno movies while the Town Theater is used for church services, and the courthouse is in a state of disrepair, and at night at least one homeless person (called "Red" by Marty) sleeps on the town square park benches. The grassy park outside of the courthouse has been converted into a parking lot. "That was always one of the major elements of the story even in its earliest incarnation," screenwriter Bob Gale says in "The Making of Back to the Future", "was to take a place and show what happens to it