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Back to the Future’s Lea Thompson wants to use Star Trek to springboard to Marvel

By Chad Porto

HOLLYWOOD, CA - MAY 14: Actress Lea Thompson arrives at the premiere of Paramount Pictures' "Star Trek Into Darkness" at Dolby Theatre on May 14, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
HOLLYWOOD, CA - MAY 14: Actress Lea Thompson arrives at the premiere of Paramount Pictures' "Star Trek Into Darkness" at Dolby Theatre on May 14, 2013 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) /
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Back to the Future’s Lea Thompson is hoping to convince Marvel to give her a shot due to her work on Star Trek.

The pop culture salad of a headline isn’t misleading by any means. Lea Thompson, known to most people as Loraine McFly in the iconic science fiction film, Back to the Future, is hoping to get directorial work within Marvel, with eyes on one of those Marvel films. She’s hoping to prove her chops by directing episodes of Star Trek.

A grand plan, and one that very well may work out for her. She directed two episodes of Star Trek: Picard, three episodes of CW’s Stargirl, and two episodes of SyFy’s Resident Alien. Why though, why engage in so many properties surrounding science fiction and special effect jobs? Well, According to Thompson, she’s been pitching ideas to Marvel and is dead set on trying to get their attention.

Speaking to the Big Issue, Thompson revealed that she was taking on harder-to-do directorial jobs to try and impress Marvel.

"That’s part of the reason I’ve been doing these big, special effects jobs. I want to prove to them that I could direct one of those movies."

She’s certainly proven she can hack it in that realm but what would she want to do for Marvel?

Lea Thompson has ties to Marvel already but they’re not great

Fans of a certain age remember when Dolph Lundgren was The Punisher, Matt Salinger was Captain America, David Hasselhoff was Nick Fury and Lea Thompson was Howard the Ducks’ girlfriend. Sorry, I meant quackfriend.

Wait, no I was right the first time.

Whoever thought Howard the Duck was a good idea was a quack, however, and involved a love scene between Thompson and a duck. Granted, an alien duck, but a duck nonetheless.

Marvel has come a long way since then and it’s likely that Thompson may get her hands on something Marvel-related sooner rather than later. She’s one of the few legacy talents in good standing with the company, and she has a lot of goodwill in the nerd community.

The “house of mouse” would be foolish not to give her a shot.

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