Justin Bieber Lands Biff Tannen Role In âBack To The Futureâ Remake
Canadian pop singer Justin Bieber will soon take on his first dramatic actingÂ gig in a motion picture, after landing the supportingÂ role of high school bully Biff Tannen in the 2016 remake of the classic 1985 comedy sci-fi filmÂ âBack to the Future.â The film will begin shooting in April 2015, and is aiming for a fall 2016 release date. Bieber was the last actor in a major role to be cast for the film. Liam Hemsworth was originally offered the job, but was forced to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts with âThe Hunger Games.â Reboot creator Judd Apatow says Bieber is a ânatural fitâ for the role, and says the pop star is âkeen on playing into his new `bad boy imageâ by taking up the role of one of the most infamous bullies in all of movies.â In the film,Â âMaze Runnerâ star Dylan OâBrienÂ will take up the role of Marty McFly, a skateboardingÂ teenageÂ slacker who befriends a screwball scientist, Doc Brown (portrayed by John Malkovich), who has transformed a Tesla Model S into a time traveling machine. But when McFly learns that Brown purchased plutonium from a Pakistani terrorist (Sacha Baron Cohen), he accidentally drives the time-traveling Tesla thirty years into the past, visiting the year 1986, where he meets his own parents (Tom Felton and Kristen Stewart)Â in high school, and helps his father overcome a bully (Bieber) to win his motherâs love at a high school dance. The reboot was written by Apatow, andÂ is being produced by Apatow, JJ Abrams, and originalÂ trilogy co-producer Neil Canton.Â âBridesmaidsâ director Paul Feig will direct the first film in the trilogy, but hasnât signed on for the two sequels yet. Franchise creators Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale will not participate in the reboot, but will of course be credited as the creators and as co-writers. The film will be released and distributed by Universal Studios. Apatow says the film will âstay true to the spirit of the original,â but most of the story is being updated for contemporary audiences. âWe want to give younger audiences that same feeling we all had when we first saw the original, so weâre hoping to stay true to the spirit of the original, and add in some fresh stuff without reinventing the wheel,â Apatow says. âFor instance, weâre replacing the DeLorean with a Tesla. Marty wonât inadvertently invent rock and roll, but will play `Teen Spiritâ and invent grunge rock instead. Not that all of our changes will be aesthetic, but we do want fans to respect the new films, and we want the new audience to respect the original films.â Â