Long before Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled through time in a flying DeLorean, director Robert Zemeckis, and his friend and writing partner Bob Gale, worked tirelessly to break into the industry with a hit.
For the first time ever, the story of how these two young filmmakers struck lightning is being told by those who witnessed it. We Don’t Need Roads includes original interviews with Zemeckis, Gale, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Huey Lewis, and over fifty others who contributed to one of the most popular and profitable film trilogies of all time.
With a focus not only on the movies, but also the lasting impact of the franchise and its fandom, We Don’t Need Roads is the ultimate book for anyone who has ever wanted to ride a Hoverboard, hang from the top of a clock tower, travel through the space-time continuum, or find out what really happened to Eric Stoltz after the first six weeks of filming.
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“The most enlightening and informative book I’ve read since Grays Sports Almanac. Every true fan of the Holy Trilogy should own a copy…It’s your density.”
— Ernest Cline, DeLorean owner and author of Ready Player One
Narrator Ron Butler's tone matches perfectly with the stories from the principal players.
— Library Journal Audio Review“Deeply researched and engagingly written, Caseen Gaines’ We Don’t Need Roads is the book Back to the Future fans have been craving for decades.”
— Brian Jay Jones, New York Times bestselling authorBe the first to write a review about this audiobook!
Caseen Gaines is the author of several books, including When Broadway Was Black: The Triumphant Story of the All-Black Musical That Changed the World. His previous work includes We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy, which led to his appearances on Entertainment Tonight and Netflix’s The Movies That Made Us. His first book, Inside Pee-wee’s Playhouse, received a Silver Medal at the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards. He has written for several publications including Rolling Stone. He can be found @caseengaines.
Ron Butler is a Los Angeles–based actor, Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator, and voice artist with over a hundred film and television credits. Most kids will recognize him from the three seasons he spent on Nickelodeon’s True Jackson, VP. He works regularly as a commercial and animation voice-over artist and has voiced a wide variety of audiobooks. He is a member of the Atlantic Theater Company and an Independent Filmmaker Project Award winner for his work in the HBO film Everyday People.