Chuck goes into the history of Back to the Future. Hihglights.
* One of the producers proposed changing the title to "Spaceman from Pluto" Steven Spielberg wrote a memo in reply thanking the producer for the joke memo.
* The script, like almost all films, went through several revisions. Early versions had the time machine as a stationary device which was built into a refrigerator. Another version had Marty McFly drive the DeLorean into a nuclear blast. (The plutonium used to power the time machine was retained from this version .)Marty and Doc Brown were video pirates in the first version, which the studios understandably changed. Chuck also pointed out that if the studio executives had the mindset of present-day studio executives, they would have insisted that Marty go back to the future via atomic bomb test.
* I have read the first and third drafts. In the first draft which had the refrigerator in the time machine), "present" day Biff was a police officer who shook down doc and Marty for a cut of their video pirating sales. The time machine used Coca-cola as a catalyst, Doc was gunned down by government agents looking for the plutonium he stole, and in the end, the "present" was changed with Doc having invented flying cars. In the third draft (where Marty drove the DeLorean to an atomic bomb test to go back to the future) , Lorraine had a crush on Biff, and said yes when he asked her to the dance, thus prompting Marty to do the space alien gag on Biff to get him to break the date. Also in the third draft, the DeLorean did not fly when it came back from 2015.
* because Michael J. Fox was filming Family Ties, his indoor scenes were filmed at night, and he filmed his daytime scenes during the weekend.
* Eric Stoltz (Caprica)was not the first choice (Fox was), but was chosen due to Fox's Family Ties commitment, he was hired. He was later fired because he did not do well in comedies.
* Stoltz filmed the following scenes: Marty visiting Hill Valley in 1955 for the first time, Marty's scenes in Lou's Diner, a scene in Doc Brown's mansion, and part of the mall scene.
* I loved the faux trailer for Jaws 19.
* George's trademark laugh at the beginning of the movie is heard again from his 2015 self in the sequel.
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* Chuck makes some very great points about...
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