The manner by which Marty returned to the 1980s was also changed. The time machine was initially envisaged as a static device, at one point even being constructed out of an old refrigerator (this plan was dropped when it was realised children might imitate the film and climb inside a refrigerator at home). While the basic structure of Back to the Future remained unchanged throughout development, it did undergo numerous changes and refinements from draft to draft. When a test of Brown’s latest invention – a fully-functioning time machine – goes disastrously wrong, Marty finds himself trapped in the year 1955 where his parents are his age and his mother unwittingly falls passionately in love with him. It provided Zemeckis with the clout within Hollywood to hand-pick his next directorial project: he selected Back to the Future, and asked Steven Spielberg to produce it via his production company Amblin Entertainment.īack to the Future follows a Californian teenager, Marty McFly, who has befriended an eccentric inventor and scientist named Emmett “Doc” Brown. The film, which starred Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, was an unexpected hit on release, grossing more than US$86 million dollars from a US$10 million dollar budget. That production was Romancing the Stone, a 1984 romantic adventure written by Diane Thomas and set up at 20 th Century Fox. He instead chose to put Back to the Future aside and put his name out to direct whatever studio production came his way. All three films had been commercial failures, and Zemeckis in particular was leery of pushing his luck by risking Spielberg’s reputation on another box office bomb. At that stage he had already worked with Gale and Zemeckis three times: twice producing for them on I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) and Used Cars (1980) and once by hiring them to write his 1979 comedy 1941. The only producer in Hollywood who demonstrated any interest in Back to the Future was Steven Spielberg. You’ve got the kid and the mother in his car! It’s incest – this is Disney.
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We went in to meet with an executive and he says, “Are you guys nuts? Are you insane? We can’t make a movie like this. This was the last vestiges of the old Disney family regime. Several producers suggested sending the script to the Walt Disney Company, then in the tail end of its time as a producer of relatively anodyne family films.īob Gale said: ‘I thought one day, “what the hell, let’s take it to Disney.” This was before Michael Eisner went in and reinvented it. Most studios rejected the screenplay either because they disliked the time travel narrative, or because they felt it wasn’t raunchy enough to appeal to a teenage audience. It was then famously rejected more than 40 times by successive Hollywood studios and production companies. Zemeckis and Gale’s screenplay was written under a contract with Columbia Pictures, who then rejected the script once its studio readers had assessed it. The film is, of course, Back to the Future.
Its dialogue was even quoted in a speech by President Ronald Reagan. Their time-travelling screenplay took five years to make, from initial draft to premiere, but became not only the highest-grossing feature film of its year but the beginning of a much-loved film trilogy, a touchstone for 1980s popular culture, and one of the most widely adored science fiction films ever made. Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale were both filmmaking students at the University of Southern California (USC). I thought we could dramatise those two things.’ Then there is the message that we all have control over our destinies. What turned the light on for me was coming across my dad’s old high-school yearbook and thinking, “Would we have been friends if we’d been at school together?” All of us have that revelation when we understand that our parents were young once, too. Have you seen this film? We would love to see your review.‘Bob Zemeckis and I had written three movies together,’ said Bob Gale, ‘and we had always wanted to do a time-travel story. Won Oscar for Best Sound Effects Editing, nominated for three others including Best Screenplay. From the top tier of 1980s comedy, it spawned two excellent sequels. He has to try to return to his correct time, but first, fix things up with his parents or he won't ever be born. His friend Marty McFly, high school teenager, is accidentally sent back in time to 1955 where he meets his future mom, who falls in love with him instead of his father.
Doc Emmett Brown creates a time machine with a Delorean, flux capacitor, and plutonium stolen from Libyan terrorists.
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