Time After Time II ...


A movie I'd like to see, and will never get the chance to write -- JNS

Back to the Future IV /
Time After Time II


By J. Neil Schulman
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0776090/

While traveling through the American southwest, Sherlock Holmes(1) is
hired by the railroad to investigate the hijacking and destruction of a
locomotive that was deliberately crashed, apparently senselessly, off an
unfinished railroad bridge into Shonash Ravine(2), Hill County, California.
During his investigation Holmes sees a flying locomotive engineered by a
white-haired man and a dark-haired woman(2), which Holmes initially
attributes to a cocaine-induced hallucination(3). However, further
investigation of forensic evidence leads Holmes to the inescapable
conclusion that his UFO sighting was real, and that the flying locomotive
could be nothing other than a machine that had traveled from the future(2).

From his hotel in Hill Valley(2), Holmes cables London to his friend, writer
H.G. Wells(4), to tell Wells what he's discovered.

Several weeks later, H.G. Wells and his wife, Amy(5), arrive in Hill Valley,
along with several large crates of belongings.

Holmes is surprised when he discovers that Wells' wife, Amy Robbins, is a
twin(6) of the woman he saw in the flying locomotive … and even more
surprised when Wells tells the great detective that Amy was born in the next
century, traveled back in time with Wells in a time machine of Wells'
invention(7), and that Amy's great-great grandmother, Clara Clayton
Brown(2), lived briefly in Hill Valley, where she married Amy's great
grandfather, a white-haired blacksmith named Emmet L. "Doc" Brown (2).

Amy's grandfather, Dr. Verne Brown(2), had told Amy fantastic bedtime
stories when she was a little girl about how when he was a boy he had
traveled through time with his brother, Jules (2), and his father, "Doc"
Brown, who was secretly a scientist. It wasn't until she had made her own
time journey that she realized these forgotten bedtime stories could be true.

The townspeople of Hill Valley assume from her appearance that Amy must
be Clara Clayton Brown, and the saloon keeper gives her the keys to Emmet
Brown's blacksmith shop, where Holmes, H.G. Wells, and Amy find
evidence of Doc Brown's time experiments.

When H.G. unpacks his crates in the same barn where Doc Brown had once
housed his first time machine, Holmes sees the contraption that, when Wells
reconstructs it, is the time machine that Wells had used to chase Jack the
Ripper into the 1970's(7), where Wells had met his wife, Amy.

Given operating instructions by H.G. Wells, Sherlock Holmes takes Wells'
time machine(7) back to the future in search of Amy's time-travelling great-
grandfather, Emmet L. "Doc" Brown, with the intent of arresting Doc
Brown for the hijacking and destruction of the crashed locomotive(2).


Footnotes:

(1) Character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236279/

(2) Back to the Future Part III, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099088/combined

(3) The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075194/combined, written by Nicholas
Meyer http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583292/

(4) Author http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0920229/ of The
Time Machine
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054387/combined,
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0268695/combined

(5) H.G. Wells first wife, Amy Catherine Robbins (1895 - 1927).

(6) A time-travelling Amy Robbins is played in Nicholas Meyer's Time
After Time
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080025/combined by
Mary Steenburgen http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005460/, who
also plays a time-travelling Clara Clayton in Back to the Future Part
III
.

(7) Time After Time
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080025/combined, written and
directed by Nicholas Meyer
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0583292/


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I would stand in line for a month to see this movie You should be a scriptwriter.


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Great idea! but this is not 1979 and the audiences to day would not go and see a film with such a convoluted plot. Therefore the muliplexes would not show it therefore it would not make any money.

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MIght not make it as a movie, but it sounds like it could be fleshed out into a great SF novel.

No more convoluted than the San Francisco episode of Star Trek: Next Generation.

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It's an interesting premise, except that Amy Robbins is a real person - so she can't be a descendant of Doc and Clara. Also, I'm not sure many would be too thrilled with the idea of a sequel - especially one that combines the two.

However, there is always the possibility of fan fiction! :) I have plans to write a BTTF/TAT crossover story myself.

Michael J Fox exudes peace and harmony!

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Yes, she's a real person, but in the world of TAT, she's from the 1970s, and she and Wells would have concocted whatever geneological data would be needed for her to pass as a Victorian woman. So if we assume that TAT and BTTF exist in the same universe, then Clara could indeed bye Amy's great grandmother.

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Damn, thats actually pretty good stuff!

And I also noticed the OP wrote this 2 years ago, any progress? :)

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If you haven't yet been hired by Hollywood they must be clinically insane!

That was great!

Unfortunately, the one reply you got may have been right. Most people want their movies and TV shows to have a straight A to B to C plot.

Not me. I'd go to see your movie. Even now, after I know your plot, I'd go to see it.

Would you be bothered if it became a made for TV movie? At least then we'd all get to see it.

Jesse

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No, I wouldn't be bothered.

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I like it! I'd love to see it writen as a fanfiction or something. If you do write it, let us know where to look.

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Much thanks, but I just looked at my checking account and the stack of unpaid bills and I'd better stick to writing for paying markets at the moment.

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My crossover fic for it is here: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3819587/1/

It's not quite what the OP detailed, but it is a crossover where TAT and BTTF occur in the same universe. In addition, the TAT film and novel also exist in the universe. The story starts out with Jules and Verne wanting to watch Time After Time, but Doc and Clara think it's too violent for them to watch. The Brown family ends up moving back to the 1980s, BTW.

You see, in the beginning, all was well. There was harmony. There was balance.

~ Alex P Keaton

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