NACELLE AND BOB GALE RELEASE ‘A FUTURE ON STAGE’ FEATURE LENGTH DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE MAKING OF BACK TO THE FUTURE: THE MUSICAL
LOS ANGELES, CA – Nacelle, the Burbank-based production and distribution company known for The Toys That Made Us, The Movies That Made Us, Behind the Attraction, A Toy Store Near You, has partnered with Bob Gale (Co-Writer, Co-Producer Back to the Future) and filmmaker Brian Stillman (Igniting the Spark - The Story of Magic: The Gathering) to release A Future on Stage, a feature-length documentary on the groundbreaking international hit, Back to the Future: The Musical. The documentary premieres on Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, YouTube and more on March 24th.
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Great Scott! The multi-award winning Back to the Future: The Musical is changing international musical theater history. When Marty McFly finds himself transported back to 1955 in a time machine built by the eccentric scientist Doc Brown, he accidentally changes the course of history. Now he’s in a race against time to fix the present, escape the past and send himself... back to the future. This iconic story has been adapted for the stage by the movie’s creators Bob Gale (Back to the Future trilogy) and Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump) and is directed by the Tony Award-winning John Rando. Back to the Future the Musical features original music by multi-Grammy winners Alan Silvestri (Avengers: Endgame) and Glen Ballard (Michael Jackson’s Man in the Mirror), alongside hit songs from the movie including The Power of Love, Johnny B. Goode, Earth Angel and Back in Time. Back to the Future: The Musical won the Olivier Award for Best New Musical, four WhatsOnStage Awards, including Best New Musical, and the Broadway World Award for Best New Musical.
The documentary includes interviews with Back to the Future star Michael J. Fox, as well as director Robert Zemeckis, writer Bob Gale, the musical’s star Roger Bart, musical producer Colin Ingram, director John Rando, and production designer, Tim Hatley. The documentary is directed by Brian Stillman. Brian Volk-Weiss, Bob Gale, Cisco Henson, and Brian Stillman serve as Executive Producers.
Back to the Future: The Musical is touring the United States, finishing a five year run in London's West End, playing in Tokyo, Hamburg and on Royal Caribbean's Star of the Seas, with future stops planned for Edinburgh, Paris and other cities around the world.
Brian Stillman is a NYC-based documentary director whose love of pop-history and geek culture runs deep. He directed Plastic Galaxy: The Story of Star Wars Toys, the first feature-length doc to explore the franchise’s early toy line. With Kelley Slagle and Seth Polansky, Brian co-directed and produced Eye of the Beholder: The Art of Dungeons & Dragons, as well as Igniting the Spark—The Story of Magic: The Gathering. He’s also contributed to Nacelle’s The Toys That Made Us, The Movies That Made Us, The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek, and Icons Unearthed.
“Having Back to the Future the Musical playing to sold out houses around the world is a future I never could have predicted” said Bob Gale. “I thought getting the movie off the ground was insanely difficult, but getting the musical version on stage was even harder, and this documentary really captures what we all went through.”
“I met Bob while directing the Back to the Future episode of The Movies That Made Us,” said Nacelle Founder and CEO, Brian Volk-Weiss. “I was very lucky to end up in a position where I could not only work on this documentary, but I can also call Bob a friend.”
“My 10-year-old mind was blown when I first saw Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future in 1985,” said Director Brian Stillman. “Forty-one years later, I’m thrilled to tell the story of BTTF: The Musical alongside Bob himself. Mind blown again!”
About The Nacelle Company:
Established in 2017, The Nacelle Company, founded by Brian Volk-Weiss, is an American diversified media company headquartered in Los Angeles, California, dedicated to producing quality entertainment. Nacelle has evolved into a leader in the pop-culture space through its scripted and unscripted productions, consumer products, records, distribution, and podcasting divisions. Nacelle’s comedy division, Comedy Dynamics, is a worldwide leader in the stand-up comedy space, having produced and distributed specials for Ali Wong, Tom Segura, Iliza Shlesinger, Pete Davidson, Jim Gaffigan, Tiffany Haddish, Larry the Cable Guy, and more. Nacelle is currently producing the NacelleVerse, an interconnected universe of animated shows that include RoboForce, which is co-produced by Brian Volk-Weiss and Seven Bucks Productions’ Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, and Brian Gewirtz, as well as their Biker Mice from Mars animated series, which is co-produced by Brian Volk-Weiss, Cisco Henson, Matt Kravitsky, and Michael Goodman from Nacelle, Maximum Effort’s Ryan Reynolds, George Dewey, Kevin Hill, and Ashley Fox, as well as Fubo’s David Gandler and Pamela Duckworth. The company’s hits include Netflix’s Emmy-winning docuseries, Down To Earth with Zac Efron and the NAACP Image award-nominated Kevin Hart’s Guide To Black History, as well as Netflix’s The Movies That Made Us, The Toys That Made Us, Behind The Attraction on Disney+, Sony’s Mad About You, Icons Unearthed on Vice TV, CW’s Discontinued, and History’s Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek. The Nacelle Company develops, produces, and distributes content across multiple media platforms including Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, HBO, Discovery, BET+, A&E Networks, Peacock, Hulu, Vice, Viacom, History, and many more.
