Back to the Future Part 4 (Early Storyboard, pages 1-2 of 16)
SCENE: DR. EMMETT BROWN (Christopher Lloyd), his wife CLARA (Mary Steenburgen), and his children JULES (Macauley Culkin) and VERNE (Kieran Culkin) are flying the HOVER-TIME-TRAIN through a WORMHOLE in time. The WORMHOLE is illustrated in vivid shades of red, swirling around glowing, phantom train tracks.
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I envision an early 1990s Back to the Future, Part 4 as equal parts Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Home Alone, as Doc Brown and his unbelievably annoying child-actor-children skip through time in search of their mother. I suppose that's partly a ripoff of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, while we're at it.
Would it be good? Hell, no. Would it make money? Well, Honey I Shrunk the Kids made north of $200MM, so....
SCENE: DR. EMMETT BROWN (Christopher Lloyd), his wife CLARA (Mary Steenburgen), and his children JULES (Macauley Culkin) and VERNE (Kieran Culkin) are flying the HOVER-TIME-TRAIN through a WORMHOLE in time. The WORMHOLE is illustrated in vivid shades of red, swirling around glowing, phantom train tracks.
DOC BROWN
(laughing and cheering)
See boys? The train works as a normal train until you get the throttle up to eighty-eight miles an hour. But once you hit eighty-eight, the flux capacitor opens up this wormhole in time....
CLARA
(adoringly)
Emmett, what happens if the train falls below eighty-eight miles an hour while we're traveling through time?
DOC BROWN
Well, hypothetically, the inflow to the flux capacitor would be interrupted, destabilizing the wormhole through every possible destination between our start and our end. We would literally be at every point along the timeline at once. Hypothetically.
CLARA
(beat)
Well, perhaps you'd better take a look at the furnace, because one of your special logs is wedged in the firebox and it looks like we're slowing down.
DOC BROWN
Great Scott!!
(DOC BROWN climbs down to the furnace and starts tugging on a large block of wood that's wedged into the firebox.)
(grunting)
It's stuck... it's... I've almost got it....(
CLARA
Here, Emmett, let me help you.
CLARA steps behind DOC BROWN and helps tug on the stuck log. All at once, the log pops free from the firebox, sending DOC BROWN falling backwards into CLARA, who falls out the side of the train and disappears into the wormhole.
DOC BROWN
(concerned)
Great Scott!!
JULES
Daddy, where's Mommy?
DOC BROWN
Well, Jules, we were travelling into the past when she fell into the wormhole, so to find your mother we need to turn this Time Train around and go back...
SFX: TITLE SCREEN
...to the future!
(laughing and cheering)
See boys? The train works as a normal train until you get the throttle up to eighty-eight miles an hour. But once you hit eighty-eight, the flux capacitor opens up this wormhole in time....
CLARA
(adoringly)
Emmett, what happens if the train falls below eighty-eight miles an hour while we're traveling through time?
DOC BROWN
Well, hypothetically, the inflow to the flux capacitor would be interrupted, destabilizing the wormhole through every possible destination between our start and our end. We would literally be at every point along the timeline at once. Hypothetically.
CLARA
(beat)
Well, perhaps you'd better take a look at the furnace, because one of your special logs is wedged in the firebox and it looks like we're slowing down.
DOC BROWN
Great Scott!!
(DOC BROWN climbs down to the furnace and starts tugging on a large block of wood that's wedged into the firebox.)
(grunting)
It's stuck... it's... I've almost got it....(
CLARA
Here, Emmett, let me help you.
CLARA steps behind DOC BROWN and helps tug on the stuck log. All at once, the log pops free from the firebox, sending DOC BROWN falling backwards into CLARA, who falls out the side of the train and disappears into the wormhole.
DOC BROWN
(concerned)
Great Scott!!
JULES
Daddy, where's Mommy?
DOC BROWN
Well, Jules, we were travelling into the past when she fell into the wormhole, so to find your mother we need to turn this Time Train around and go back...
SFX: TITLE SCREEN
...to the future!
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I envision an early 1990s Back to the Future, Part 4 as equal parts Honey I Shrunk the Kids and Home Alone, as Doc Brown and his unbelievably annoying child-actor-children skip through time in search of their mother. I suppose that's partly a ripoff of Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, while we're at it.
Would it be good? Hell, no. Would it make money? Well, Honey I Shrunk the Kids made north of $200MM, so....