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Search for Missing ‘Back to the Future’ Prop Launches Standalone Movie

The hunt for the legendary movie guitar will be turned into a film of its own.

The search for a guitar played by Michael J. Fox in Back to the Future that has been missing for 40 years is to become a film of its own. Fox’s character in the 1985 movie, Marty McFly, plays a Gibson ES-345 Cherry Red guitar during the iconic “Enchantment Under the Sea” school dance scene. The instrument had been rented from Norm’s Rare Guitars in California but was never returned and was already missing when a pair of sequels were filmed in 1989. Filmmaker Doc Crotzer is now making a “true crime search” documentary, Lost to the Future, to recover the guitar on which Fox played Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode” in one of the best scenes of the 1985 movie. Crotzer told Billboard that watching Back to the Future as a kid made him want to both make films and play guitar. “I went on with my [filmmaking] career, but I had always wondered what happened to that guitar. Over the last however many years so many props from the movie have surfaced…but (the guitar) had never surfaced.” Anyone with information on the lost guitar can call 1-855-345-1955 or visit the Lost to the Future website.