Programming & Performance

Back to the Future Fans Animated Their Favorite Scenes for the Film's 35th Anniversary

NBCUniversal and Tongal invite 8 artists to reimagine iconic movie moments

back to the future cartoon — The eight Back to the Future videos were created by artists based everywhere from Brazil to Spain and Ireland. Tongal

To celebrate Back to the Future’s 35th anniversary, NBCUniversal is giving the film an animated reboot—eight of them, in fact.

The company’s licensing division, Universal Brand Development, partnered with content creation platform Tongal to select eight fans from around the world to recreate their favorite scenes from the 1985 time traveling comedy—starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd—in their own animation styles.

Tongal tapped its community of 200,000 creators, who were asked “to pitch Universal how they would bring their favorite scene to life and also tell us why they love Back to the Future,” said Tongal CEO James DeJulio.

Jason Lynch

Jason Lynch is senior managing editor at Adweek, overseeing the magazine and digital covers, as well as all TV coverage across linear and streaming.

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