20 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Back To The Future
Nathan Johnson
Published
10/21/2015
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The time machine in "Back to the Future" was originally going to be a refrigerator, but was changed when the creators thought kids would trap themselves in fridges while replicating the scene. -
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Back to the Future filmed for five weeks with Eric Stoltz playing Marty Mcfly. Director Robert Zemeckis disliked his style of humor so much they threw away the five weeks of filming and $3 million dollars to recast with Michael J. Fox. -
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Director Robert Zemeckis, who has approval over all films in the Back to the Future franchise, says that he will block all attempts to remake or reboot the original film -
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When Ronald Reagan watched Back to the Future for the first time, he loved the joke about who was president in 1985 (Ronald Reagan? The Actor?) so much that he made the theater projectionist stop the film, roll it back, and play the joke again. -
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Robert Zemeckis was so frustrated with the cliffhanger ending of The Empire Strikes Back that he purposely put the trailer & release date for Back to the Future 3 at the end of Back to the Future 2 so that the audience would know that the story would be completed in six months -
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Thomas F. Wilson who plays Biff in Back to the Future is asked about the movies by enthusiastic fans so often that he will frequently hand them a postcard of frequently asked questions as a timesaver. -
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Carl Sagan considered Back to the Future 2 the greatest time travel movie ever made, due to the movie’s accuracy in handling the multiple timelines -
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James McCartney, Paul McCartney’s son, wanted to learn the guitar not because of his father but because he saw Marty McFly play one in Back to the Future -
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When filming the scene where Marty is being hanged from the clock tower, Michael J Fox agreed to really hang from the rope. Whilst filming, Fox held the rope away from his throat with his hand. At one time he wasn’t holding the rope and was really being strangled. The film crew didn’t realise, they just thought it was really good acting, until he passed out. -
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Back to The Future Part II correctly predicted the widespread use of wall mounted flat screen TVs, routine plastic surgery, handheld computer devices, a baseball team in Florida, hands free gaming, and the popularity of 3D movies in 2015 -
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Back to the Future II was originally going to take Marty McFly to 1967 where he’d meet an acid-tripping , motorcycle-riding Doc Brown and his hippie parents. The entire script is available online. -
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Sidney Sheinberg wanted to change the title of Back To The Future to ‘Spaceman From Pluto’. Robert Zemeckis, horrified, asked Steven Spielberg for help, so Spielberg wrote Sheinberg a memo convincing him that they thought his title was just a joke, embarrassing him into dropping the name change -
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When "Back to the Future" was first screened in front of a test audience with no hint of the plot before hand, the room grew uncomfortable in the few first minutes because they initially believed Doc Brown incinerated his dog in the DeLorean -
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Elijah Wood’s first role was that annoying little kid at Cafe 80’s in Back to the Future Part II -
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‘The Power of Love’ singer Huey Lewis judges the Battle of the Bands, telling Marty he is "too darn loud". -
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Crispin Glover doesn’t play George in Part II due to contract disagreements. Actor Jeffrey Weissman appeared upside down and in prosthetics to make it look as if Glover returned. Glover later won damages for using his likeness without permission. -
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Writer/Producer Bob Gale had the idea for the film after finding his father’s yearbook in the basement, seeing that he was somewhat of a nerd and wondering if they would have been friends if they’d been at school together. -
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Claudia Wells only plays Marty’s girlfriend, Jennifer, in the first film and not the sequels because her mother became ill and she elected to spend time with her. Elisabeth Shue took over the role for the second and third movies. -
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Doc Brown’s notable hunch came about because at 6’1" Christopher Lloyd is considerably taller than Michael J. Fox, who is 5’5", and they needed to look closer in size. -
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Robert Zemeckis regretted the decision to have Jennifer get into the car with Marty and Doc Brown at the end of the first film as it meant Jennifer would have to be incorporated into Part II, rather than giving free reign to tell a brand new story.
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