Gibson and Michael J. Fox Launch a Marketing campaign to Discover the Marty McFly Guitar From “Again to the Future”
Watch a New Video That includes the Forged of the Beloved 1985 Movie
Jun 04, 2025
The long-lasting Marty McFly guitar from Again to the Future is lacking. And the guitar firm Gibson and the group behind the collection, together with Marty himself, Michael J. Fox, want your assist to search out it.
In a video posted to Gibson’s YouTube channel, the forged together with Fox, Lea Thompson (Lorraine Banes McFly), Christopher Lloyd (Dr. Emmett Brown), Harry Waters Jr. (Marvin Berry), the collection’ co-creator Bob Gale, and Huey Lewis (who sang the movie’s hit tune “The Energy of Love”) all make an look to ask the general public’s assist to search out the guitar. Gibson has additionally launched a poster with the headline “Have You Seen This Guitar?” underneath the corporate’s on-line publication the Gibson Gazette.
“It’s someplace misplaced within the space-time continuum, or it’s in some Teamster’s storage,” says Fox.
The guitar—a Cherry Crimson Gibson ES-345—made its iconic look within the movie’s “Enchantment Below the Sea” highschool dance scene in 1985, throughout which Fox performed Chuck Berry’s traditional “Johnny B. Goode.” In accordance with the poster, when the crew started making the sequel to the movie, they tried to search out it to no avail.
The seek for, and hopefully, the monitoring down of the guitar, would be the subject of a brand new documentary titled Misplaced to the Future, directed by Doc Crotzer and narrated by Mark Agnesi. “It is going to discover the guitar’s significance via archival footage, music historical past, and visits to classic guitar retailers, public sale homes, and movie prop warehouses,” says the Gibson Gazette. Gibson additionally plans to launch a restricted manufacturing of replicas of the guitar. The marketing campaign coincides with the franchise’s fortieth anniversary.
The guitar was rented for the capturing of the movie from Norman’s Uncommon Guitars, a guitar store in Los Angeles, Crotzer advised The Hollywood Reporter. After capturing, it was returned to the store, by no means to be seen once more. “We weren’t within the period of digital trails, or of receipts and issues like that,” stated Crotzer. “There are conflicting reviews too. You’ll find about as many various rumors as you possibly can folks.”
In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, Norman Harris, the proprietor of Norman’s Uncommon Guitars, has given a number of variations of the story in previous interviews on the subject, at occasions suggesting he had bought the guitar to a buddy who had bought it to a lady who tried to promote the guitar again to the store for the steep worth of $1 million, at others inferring that he may’ve bought it to somebody in Japan.
“Years in the past, I used to be astonished to study this beloved cinematic artifact had apparently disappeared into the space-time continuum,” Bob Gale advised the Gibson Gazette. “Since we don’t have a functioning time machine, this effort might be our greatest likelihood to resolve a decades-long thriller.”
Agnesi advised the Gibson Gazette that he’d like to have the ability to showcase the guitar for “as many individuals to have an opportunity to see it as doable.”
“If which means Gibson buys it for his or her assortment and places it within the vault, I’m completely one hundred pc prepared to begin speaking with anyone who comes ahead who might need the guitar about doubtlessly shopping for it,” Agnesi says.
“That is the film that made me need to be a filmmaker, and the scene that made me choose up a guitar for the primary time,” Crotzer additionally advised the Gibson Gazette. Crotzer and Agnesi symbolize the significance that the guitar and its legacy held to a whole technology, and it’d be a disgrace if that was all misplaced to the space-time continuum.
When you’ve got any details about the lacking guitar, contact Gibson by telephone or textual content at 1-855-345-1955 or go to LostToTheFuture.com.
