Marty McFly’s guitar from Back to the Future movie is missing. The hunt is on to find it
Cherry Red Gibson guitar Michael J. Fox’s character plays in Back to the Future vanished after filming. Movie’s stars join appeal to find it
Marty McFly grabbed a guitar in Back to the Future and rocked out with the band at a 1950s high-school dance, helping him narrowly avoid blinking out of existence before time travelling back to the 1980s.
The guitar, in real life, wasn’t as lucky.
Filmmakers went looking for the instrument while making the movie’s 1989 sequel, but even now it is nowhere to be found. Four decades after the blockbuster film debuted, the guitar’s creator has launched a search for the Cherry Red Gibson ES-345.
Gibson, which is based in Nashville, in the US state of Tennessee, is asking the public for help tracking it down as the movie turns 40 and as the company produces a new documentary, Lost to the Future, about the search and the film.
In a video by Gibson, with the movie’s theme song playing in the background, Back to the Future stars such as Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson and Harry Waters Jr. make a cinematic plea.
There’s also a surprise appearance by Huey Lewis, whose band Huey Lewis and the News performed the soundtrack’s headliner song, “The Power of Love”.