‘Back to the Future’ has an unofficial fourth part but it is canon

And we can see it for free

The fantastic back to the future This same year, 2025, no less than 40 years and it has celebrated it both by returning to theaters in a special event for which it can only be seen for a few days, and by Casio announcing a watch that is nothing more than a limited edition of its legendary CA-50, the same one that Marty McFly wore in the second film.

A saga of films that, as we well know, consists of three feature filmsand although from time to time the rumors about a possible fourth installment or even a reboot, Bob Gale, its main screenwriter, has been blunt about it, claiming that yes, it is something that Universal would love (for the sake of getting a cut), but that it is better to “leave things as they are.”

However, back to the future yes it has a kind of part fouralthough it does not work as an official continuation, but it does It’s canon; we explain ourselves.

Sequel but at the same time alternative history

In 1991Universal Studios opened its theme parks Back to the Future: The Ridean attraction cinematography developed by their own Robert Zemeckis and Bob Galewho wrote the story and oversaw the entire production.

Far from being a simple show for the park, the short about 12 minutes duration was conceived as an authentic continuation of Back to the future IIIresuming the events after the farewell of the DeLorean in the West.

Herein new storyDoctor Emmett Brown founded the Institute of Time (Institute of Future Technology), a research center dedicated to time travel. But chaos returns when Biff Tannen manages to sneak into the buildingsteals one of the DeLoreans and travels to the past to cause new disasters in the timeline.

Park visitors (turned passengers in another DeLorean) must chase him through different erasfrom the Jurassic to Hill Valley in 2015, to restore the balance of time.

It has almost all the ingredients of the originals

Although it was never released in theaters, Back to the Future: The Ride counted con Christopher Lloyd y Thomas F. Wilson resuming their roles as Doc and Biffin addition to the visual effects supervised by Industrial Light & Magic. The attraction ran for more than fifteen years in parks in Florida, Hollywood and Japan, before being replaced by Los Simpson: The Ride in 2007.