Get Back to 'Back to the Future' With These 30 Fun Facts

Back to the Future has long captured the hearts and minds of fans. Stories from the film's creation have often done nothing but add to its mystique 

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    Logo - 20 WARNER HOME VIDEO The script was rejected over 40 Pararaunt times by every maior studio. ACT ISNEP MGM PICTURES TM UNIVERSAL SONY PICTURES
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    Human - Christopher Lloyd stated that he always wanted to do one more movie, in which Marty and Doc Brown time-travel back to Ancient-Rome.
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    Poster - SJAR TREX BAR TPFURE THE The film is banned in China along with 'Star Trek Harry Potter' and 'Austin Powers because the notiono time travel "disrespects history Polter
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    Musical instrument - Michael J. Fox has said thac Marty's being characterized as riding skate boards, chasing girls, and interests'in-playing music with hopes of becoming a rock star was the exact same way he was during his own high school days. AMAHA
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    Text - According to Bob Gale, on of October 26th, 1985, a group people showed up at the mall used to film the Twin Pines Mall location to see if Marty would arrive in the DeLorean. He, of Dre TWIN PINES MALL Course, did not.
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    Text - There's a nod to Stanley Kubrick in Doc's garage. The amplifier has a CRM114 label, which is the name of a piece of radio equipment in Doctor Strangelove CRM 114
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    Hair - Tim Robbins was considered for the role of Biff Tannen.
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    Text - BACKS TO HEFUTURE Written By Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale The University of Southern California Film schools writing classes use the screenplay for Back to the Future as the model of "The Perfect Screenplay" PTS A14209
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    Guitar - EN NTMEN UN HE S Musician Mark Campbell did all of Michael J. Fox's singing. He is credited as "Marty.McFly.
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    Land vehicle - After the film's release, body kits were made for DeLoreans to make them look like the time machine. DUTAINE 3E LOrEan
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    Photo caption - It took three hours in make-up to turn the 23-year-old Lea Thompson into the 47-year-old Lortaine UDKA
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    Text - I'm Tom Wilson. I was in all three "Back To The Future" movies. Michael J. Fox is nice. I'm not in close contact with him. Christopher Lloyd is nice. He is a very shy man. Crispin Glover is unusual, but not as unusual as he sometimes presents himself. We got along nicely. Lea Thompson is nice. Eric Stoltz originally played Marty, but was fired due to performance issues. The first movie was shot in 1984 and '85. The sequels were shot "back to back," never before attempted by a movie studio
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    Vehicle - The production ultimately used three real DeLoreans.
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    Photo caption - Worried that people would shun a film with future' in its name, a studio exec tried to change Back to the Future to Spaceman From Pluto Steven Spielberg sent back a thank you note for the humorous memo.'
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    Vehicle - The DeLorean was deliberately selected for its general appearance and gull wing doors, in order to make it plausible that people in 1955 would presume it to be an alien spacecraft. Snap Stills/REX
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    Font - In the beginning when we see all of the Doc's clocks, we se clock with a man hanging from the minute hand. This is from 121 scene in Harold Lloyd's film, 9 Safety Last, and is reference to the ending when Doc is hanging from the clock tower. 3 4 7 6 AXIS
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    Product - s MEG The time machine was originally conceived as a refrigerato rather than a car
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    Hair - According to Bob Gale, Johnny Depp auditioned for the role of Marty McFly: " looked through the notes, and I said, 'Geez, I don't even remember that we read Johnny Depp!' So whatever he did, it wasn't all that memorable, I guess!"
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    Photo caption - Robert zemeckis dubbed the picture "the filmfthat would not wrap He recalled that because they shot night after night, he was always "halfasleep" and the fattest, most out of-shape and sick lever was"
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    Poster - STEVEN SPIELBERG Synchronize your watches.. The Future is coming... TO AROBERT ZEMECKIS He was neve n ne r his dlasses He wast in tine for bis dener Then ane dy be wasat in his tine at a BACK Ralph Macchio was offered the role of Marty McFly but he turned it down because he thought the movie was about "A kid, a car and plutonium pills". THAELJ FOX RISPIN GLOVER NAL CANTON STEVEN SPIELBERG KATHLEEN KENNEDY FRANK MARSHALL ROBERT ZEMECKIS A UNVERSAL Pu
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    Emblem - DEPARTMENT FBI ANTI-PIRACY WARNING JUSTICE OF INTEGRITY FIDELITY BRAVERY Martyisell bootleg videos in In the original scipt Doc Brown and MarSTIGAT order to fund the time macbinehis plot point was removed at Universal's request, as they did not want to be seen as promoting moviepiracy. FEDERAL
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    Motor vehicle - A persistent myth is that Michael J. Fox had to learn to skateboard for the film. In fact, he was a reasonably skilled skateboarder, having ridden throughout high school. However, Per Wetinder acted as a skateboarding double for the complex scenes
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    Eyewear - John Lithgow, Dudley Moore and Jeff Goldblum were all considered for the role of Doc Brown.
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    Forehead - 'Crispin Glover lost his voice during filming, so for some scenes he had to justmouth his lines and the dub the dialogue later.
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    News - The parts of the script with references to President Ronald Reagan needed to be reviewed by the White House for approval so as not to offend the President. Producers had some concerns over Reagan's reaction to Doc Brown's famous line mocking the improbability of his being President in 1985, but Reagan was said to get a real kick out of it.
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    Mode of transport - The jukebox in the diner in 1955 is the same jukebox in Doc Brown's home in the beginning of the movie.
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    Adaptation - Biff's catchphrases make like a tree and get outta herekand "butthead" were improvised by Thomas E Wilson.
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    Vehicle - The script never called for Marty to repeatedly bang his head on the gull-wing door of the DeLorean; this was improvised during filming as the door mechanism became faulty.
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    Organism - There are only about thirty-two spećial effects shots in the entire film
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    Eating - Wendie Jo Sperber, who played Linda McFly, was in fact three years older than Lea Thompson who played her mother and six years older than Crispin Glover who played her father BUD LIGHT
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