{"id":28481,"date":"2024-01-25T00:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/devos-mark-mothersbaugh-was-offered-the-role-of-doc-brown-in-back-to-the-future\/"},"modified":"2024-01-25T00:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T00:02:50","slug":"devos-mark-mothersbaugh-was-offered-the-role-of-doc-brown-in-back-to-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/devos-mark-mothersbaugh-was-offered-the-role-of-doc-brown-in-back-to-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Devo\u2019s Mark Mothersbaugh was offered the role of Doc Brown in &#8216;Back to the Future&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/01\/Getty_DevoMarkMothersbaugh_012424.jpg\" alt=\"\"><figcaption>Neilson Barnard\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Back to the Future<\/em>\u00a0fans probably couldn\u2019t imagine the film without\u00a0<strong>Christopher Lloyd<\/strong>\u00a0playing Doc Brown, but it turns out he may not have been the first choice for the role.<\/p>\n<p>While at the Sundance Film Festival,\u00a0<strong>Mark Mothersbaugh<\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0<strong>Devo<\/strong>\u00a0told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/steven-spielberg-back-to-the-future-cast-devo-mark-mothersbaugh\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Wrap<\/a>\u00a0he was\u00a0originally offered the\u00a0part by the film&#8217;s producer\u00a0<strong>Steven Spielberg<\/strong>\u00a0and director\u00a0<strong>Robert Zemeckis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mothersbaugh says Spielberg and Zemeckis attended one of Devo\u2019s shows, and at the end of the night they came up to him and said they wanted to talk to him about working on their film. He was convinced\u00a0they were going to ask him to do the score, so he was totally surprised by their offer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went into this meeting and they said, \u2018Well, we love what you do on stage. We love the way your band looks. We want you to be sort of a crazy mad scientist in this film we\u2019re doing,&#8221;&#8217; he shared.\u00a0When he asked them\u00a0what they meant, they told him,\u00a0\u201cThere\u2019s a part in the film of a guy who runs around in a lab coat and he has a car that goes through time. We want you to play that part.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Mothersbaugh had no interest, telling them, \u201cI don\u2019t want to act in a movie.\u201d When they argued he already acts onstage, Mothersbaugh countered, \u201cWell, we make that stuff up ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And while Mothersbuagh didn\u2019t do the film, a quick reference to Devo is\u00a0featured in the movie: Marty, played by\u00a0<strong>Michael J. Fox<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>comments, \u201cWhat is this Devo?\u201d when he sees Doc\u2019s contamination suit. That clip now appears in the new documentary\u00a0<em>Devo<\/em>, which had its debut at the Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neilson Barnard\/Getty Images Back to the Future\u00a0fans probably couldn\u2019t imagine the film without\u00a0Christopher Lloyd\u00a0playing Doc Brown, but it turns out he may not have been the first choice for the role. While at the Sundance Film Festival,\u00a0Mark Mothersbaugh\u00a0of\u00a0Devo\u00a0told\u00a0The Wrap\u00a0he was\u00a0originally offered the\u00a0part by the film&#8217;s producer\u00a0Steven Spielberg\u00a0and director\u00a0Robert Zemeckis. 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