Michael J Fox’s kids have not seen ‘Back to the Future’

It has a massive fan base and seems ripe for the same treatment, if not now then a decade from now.

The number “88” has special significance for Fox and all Back to the Future fans, as it is the exact speed, in miles per hour, that the DeLorean had to reach before it could turn from a sports vehicle into a time-traveling machine.

The Back to the Future star, marking the film’s 30th anniversary at a cast reunion held during London Comic-Con, remarked that he might not have stayed an actor had he not landed his star-making role as Marty McFly.

“Take after take, it would go, WHACK!”

He joked: “I wish I had a gag reel of every time I got whacked by that auto door”.

“It was the worst thing to drive”, he continued. It had two gears and I slammed the door, and my hand would smash into the flux capacitor. “My hand would be bleeding, my head would be bleeding… and I had to clean it off to get to the Family Ties set”.

Foxs words echo a similar, though more blunt response from Robert Zemeckis earlier this month. Robert Zemeckis referred to his writing partner on the film, Bob Gale, who commented previous year how none of these kinds of reboots are any good.

“Ironically, for a time-travelling movie, there was a timelessness about it. Kids now like it. Though my kids haven’t watched it. Or, if they have, they haven’t told me”, said the actor who was present at the 30th Anniversary event of the film in London.