Skip To Content

    Somebody Is Retelling "Back To The Future" In Real Time On Twitter

    Great Scott! Now you can enjoy the time travel classic with added emoticons!

    So, a group known as the Hill Valley Project is recreating Back To The Future on Twitter.

    It means we get to live through Fox's 1985 time-travel classic in real time. each of the principle characters has a Twitter account of their own.

    Marty McFly.

    @_EmmettBrown Whoa, whoa Doc, stuck here, I can't be stuck here, I got a life in 1985! I got a girl!

    Marty McFly

    @_M4rtyMcFly

    @_EmmettBrown Whoa, whoa Doc, stuck here, I can't be stuck here, I got a life in 1985! I got a girl!

    / Via

    A high-school slacker with a skill for guitars and skateboarding. Marty has a big heart but an excess of pride: no-one calls him chicken.

    Dr Emmett 'Doc' Brown.

    @_M4rtyMcFly Saturday night. If we could somehow harness this bolt of lightning, channel it into the flux capacitor, it just might work

    Emmett 'Doc' Brown

    @_EmmettBrown

    @_M4rtyMcFly Saturday night. If we could somehow harness this bolt of lightning, channel it into the flux capacitor, it just might work

    / Via

    An eccentric scientist and inventor, and Marty's best friend. Through his invention of the Flux Capacitor, he has just discovered the secret of time travel. But sourcing the plutonium required to power his time machine has got him into trouble with Libyan terrorists...

    George McFly.

    @_BiffTannen Uh, well, OK Biff, uh, I'll finish that on up tonight and I'll bring it over first thing tomorrow morning

    George McFly

    @_GeorgeMcFly

    @_BiffTannen Uh, well, OK Biff, uh, I'll finish that on up tonight and I'll bring it over first thing tomorrow morning

    / Via

    A 1950s school nerd with a lack of confidence and a creepy Peeping Tom habit. But a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger could change his life forever...

    Lorraine Baines McFly.

    @_M4rtyMcFly @_GeorgeMcFly? Oh, he's kinda cute and all, but, well, I think a man should be strong, so he can stand up for himself...

    Lorraine

    @_LorraineBTTF

    @_M4rtyMcFly @_GeorgeMcFly? Oh, he's kinda cute and all, but, well, I think a man should be strong, so he can stand up for himself...

    / Via

    A 1950s teenage girl with a penchant for behaviours she will in later life call "looking for trouble"; drinking liquor, smoking and parking in cars with boys. But a crush on the wrong boy looks set to change the course of history...

    Biff Tannen.

    @_GeorgeMcFly Hey, McFly! I thought I told you never to come in here. Well it's gonna cost you. How much money have you got on you?

    Biff Tannen

    @_BiffTannen

    @_GeorgeMcFly Hey, McFly! I thought I told you never to come in here. Well it's gonna cost you. How much money have you got on you?

    / Via

    A small-town bully who makes George McFly's life a misery as both boy and man. But after Marty's intervention, could all that change?

    The action picked up again today at 1.30pm GMT, with Marty giving some motivational advice to the man who does not yet realise he is talking to his own son.

    1. George is lacking the confidence. He does not know what Marty does, that Lorraine has it in her to fancy him.

    2. Marty spells out the plan to "Dad, Dad, Dad, Daddy-o."

    3. Marty is going to pretend to touch his own mother on the...

    4. Marty needs to summon George's inner warrior.

    It's all a bit more confusing when mixed in within your own feed.

    5. "You know, if you put your mind to it, you could accomplish anything..."

    See what fun this is? The action continues later today (August 29).

    @DanMartinIsNot @BuzzFeedUK that's great. Sorry starts again at 4.34pm with @_EmmettBrown outside the clock tower

    Hill Valley Project

    @_HillValley

    @DanMartinIsNot @BuzzFeedUK that's great. Sorry starts again at 4.34pm with @_EmmettBrown outside the clock tower

    / Via