Michael J. FoxandChristopher Lloydare sending fans back to the past.
The belovedBack to the Futurestars recently shared a reunion that Foxposted to his Instagramlate Saturday night.
"Dining with my bestie at the beach," Fox wrote in the caption of the photo of himself and Lloyd, smiling, heads affectionately bent toward one another in a restaurant.
"Next yearBTTFis 41. Great Scott. Chris will be [88]. That's some serious s---," Fox continued.
In the comments, Lloyd responded with a cheeky reference to the iconic sci-fi comedy, quoting a classic line from Fox's Marty McFly: "Man, that's heavy."
It has indeed been over 40 years sinceBack to the Futurefirst launched into theaters, capturing audiences imaginations and establishing a legacy that would carry on through two sequels, an animated TV series, a number of theme park rides, video games, a stage musical, and several books authored by Fox and his costars.
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In the first film, Fox's Marty is a high school student who inadvertently travels back in time thanks to the jalopy creation of his scientist friend Emmett "Doc" Brown (Lloyd), unwittingly breaks up his parents, and then scrambles to get them back together to save his own existence.
The cast including Fox, Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Thomas F. Wilson have remained close over the years, or at least tied tightly together due to the franchise's enduring popularity. Fox and Lloydpreviously reunited in 2020, and in 2023, all four of the starsjoined forcesat FanExpo Portland.
Fox went on to star in a number of equally successful films and series, fromSpin CitytoStuart LittleandThe Good Wife. But he's always returned toBack to the Future— most recently in the form ofFuture Boy, a memoir published last year in which he recounts the making of the film.
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It was well known beforeFuture Boythat Fox was not the original choice for the role of Marty McFly; Eric Stoltz shot several weeks of footage in the role before director Robert Zemeckis and producer Steven Spielberg opted to swap Fox in.
In the memoir, Fox recounts how he never got to say his piece to Stoltz about the fateful switch-up, which led to Fox's career completely taking off. Fox wrote that he finally sought Stoltz out while writing the book, and "with a smile, and we quickly acknowledged that neither of us had an issue with the other. What transpired onBack to the Futurehad not made us enemies or fated rivals; we were just two dedicated actors who had poured equal amounts of energy into the same role. The rest had nothing to do with us."
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