Fox had forgotten how to ride a skateboard.Ģ1) U.S. He is one of the children playing in the futuristic arcade.ġ8) Christopher Lloyd stated that he always wanted to do one more movie, in which Marty and Doc Brown time-travel back to Ancient Rome.ġ9) The ledge on the clock tower that Doc broke in Back to the Future (1985) is still broken in 2015.Ģ0) In the five years since the original Back to the Future was made and the third film Back to the Future Part III, Michael J. The nature of filming two sequels at the same time was revolutionary for the industry, which The Hobbit emulated in its three-part prequel to Lord of The Rings.ġ7) Speaking of Hobbits, Elijah Wood (Frodo in Lord of the Rings) made his big screen debut in the second film. He compared it to Temple of Doom in the Indiana Jones franchise, citing it as a dip in form between his preferred installments, I and III.ġ5) The original script was rejected over 40 times by several major studios, Gale told an interviewer in 2010.ġ6) Back To The Future II and III were shot back to back over the course of 11 months in 1989. Let’s do this stuff in the ’60s and see what we could do with that.”ġ4) Although Robert Zemeckis loves Back to The Future II, it’s executive producer Steven Spielberg does not think highly of it. Gale said, “George McFly would have been a college professor, Lorraine is a flower child. After being told that the studio was going to create a sequel with or without their input, the pair decided to get involved.ġ3) Speaking of the sequel – initial plans for it were to send McFly back to the 1960s. The school was attended by future US President Richard Nixon in his teenage years.ġ2) Gale and Zemeckis did not plan to follow the film wiuth a sequel. Test audiences audibly gasped thinking the dog had perished in its maiden time-travelling voyage.ġ1) The school which was featured in Back to the Future, as Hill Valley High was a real school called Whittier High. Safe to say, we got minimal Godfather vibes from the High School nerd.ġ0) Early screenings of the film prompted fears about animal cruelty when Doc sends his dog (not chimpanzee) back in the DeLorean in a test run. Back to the Future’s initial idea for a time-travelling fridge never took off… but Spielberg pinched the idea of a super-fridge for Indiana Jones & the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which Jones’ survives a nuclear explosion by hiding in a refrigerator.Ĩ) The High School judge who deems Marty and his band ‘too darn loud’ is none other than Huey Lewis, who contributed two songs to the soundtrack.ĩ) Crispin Glover attempted to model his portrayal of Marty’s Dad, George, on actor Marlon Brando. Gale wondered if he would have been a friend of his ancestor in school, who he described as a ‘nerd’ and the film blossomed from this chance idea.Ģ) The time machine was originally conceived as a refrigerator. Here’s some trivia that will have your brain racing at speeds of 88mph…ġ) Writer and producer Richard Gale formulated the film idea when he found his grandfather’s yearbook in his garage.
Back To The Future Day – October 21 2015, the date Doc Brown and Marty McFly venture to in their souped-up DeLorean in the series’ second film – sadly didn’t live up to our lofty expectations.
Fox, you know, that’s like saying ‘I’m going to cook you a steak dinner and I’m going to hold the beef.’ You can’t do that.Back to the Future II was an instant classic on release 26 years ago but its vision of a future full of hoverboards and self-lacing shoes has sadly not come to pass.
“The idea of making another Back to the Future movie without Michael J.
Fox is not in the best of shape with his Parkinson’s,” Gale said in 2018. Zemeckis and Back to the Future co-creator Bob Gale have been been adamant that a fourth movie will never happen. ZZ Top are touring with Cheap Trick this summer, but don’t expect to hear “Doubleback.” They haven’t touched it in concert since 1991.īack to the Future, meanwhile, remains one of the few classic movie franchises from the 1980s that hasn’t been revived in recent years. The complete, electric version of “Doubleback” played over the final credits of Back to the Future Part III and appeared on their 1990 LP Recycler, but not on the Back to the Future Part III soundtrack. In between takes, they’d sit and play blues on the acoustic guitars and have mini jam sessions. “They have the beards and everything, as advertised.