Back to the Future

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• Over 100 students at Fort Sumner High School in Libery, MO, received Zune music players to watch educational videos and listen to podcasts recommended by teachers. — Yahoo! News
• I feel for you Canada, why oh why isn't Rogers offering an unlimited data plan for the iPhone 3G like AT&T?! Unlimited plans should be a universal right! — Crave

If you've watched the Back To The Future series as many times as I have, your obsession has probably led you to a google search where you learned the funky set of wheels made popular in the films stopped production nearly 25 years ago. Lucky for car loving geeks out there, we may not have to go travel through time to see new DeLorean cars.

The BBC has reported that the demand for the DeLorean is so high that it may go back into production. It's a funny story really, because the DeLorean DMC-12 car was first released in 1981, but less than 9,000 cars were made because it was largely considered a junker. Today the car's failure has been forgotten, and its stainless steel skin and wing doors have a serious cult following. The vice president of the Delorean Motor Company is quoted as saying:

"You can't have any conversation about the car without talking about the impact of the whole series of Back To The Future movies. There are guys who were in their teens when they first saw the movie, who are now in their late 30s or early 40s, who are at that point in life when they can get the car they wanted when they were a kid."

Sure, the DeLorean may not have the sleek exterior and function as Tom Cruise's Minority Report Car, but when modified, it does travel through time, right?

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Every Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

This week's recast challenge was a fond favorite for many of you, so I was delighted to see how thoughtful the recast lists were! Some of my favorite ideas include casting Frankie Muniz or Michael Cera as Marty McFly, as both actors have that youthful earnestness.

I also enjoyed many of the suggestions submitted for the character of Doc Brown, such as Steve Buscemi, and emei47's idea of Robert Downey Jr. Finally, selecting who should play the villainous Biff Tannen seemed to be a fun challenge for some of you, and I especially liked BunGirl's pick of Owen Wilson. BunGirl also posted her own cast photo, which I thought was awesome.
However, my favorite recast list this week comes from CocoChic! She wondered if we were casting these characters as teenagers or as adults. Because the actors in the original cast were in their 20s, I went with Coco's younger cast submission. To see who CocoChic picked along some new cast pictures, read more

Every Wednesday on BuzzSugar, I post a Recast challenge, where I ask you to choose new actors for a classic TV show or movie. The reader who submits the best cast wins a BuzzSugar t-shirt!

This 1985 sci-fi comedy should be tons of fun to recast, since the characters are so quirky, and the movie is such a favorite for many children of the '80s (well, and '70s, and '90s...). If you could recast Back to the Future today with new actors, who would you pick?

I have a sneaking suspicion that many of you will be itching to cast Shia LaBeouf in the part of Marty McFly, which might well be fitting, though I wonder who else could do well with the part. And who could play the zany Doc Brown? Or Marty's parents, Lorraine and George? And then, of course, there's Biff the bully.

Leave your entry in the comment section below, and I'll pick one winner to feature Tuesday, July 31, complete with a "new" cast photo. To see a list of characters to recast and a photo of the BuzzSugar t-shirt, read more