Though he pulled doube-duty for months, fans might have the birth of those twins to thank for Michael J. But the show had to change its schedule when Meredith Baxter (Elyse from Family Ties) giving birth to twins in real life and Fox jumped. Fox, who couldn’t make the film initially because of conflicts with his sitcom Family Ties. In the end, the moviemakers got who they wanted all along: Michael J. But, watching the clips of Stoltz, a fine actor, it’s clear why the Marty move was made. The decision wasted about six weeks in shoots and nearly $4 million. As any fan knows, Eric Stoltz (the guy who plunged the adrenaline into Uma Thurman’s heart in Pulp Fiction) was the original Marty McFly but was fired for being too dark and brooding in what was supposed to be a more comedic role. Gale’s iconic response: “ Doc Brown doesn’t drive a Mustang!”Ħ. But, once filming began, Universal’s product placement team got an offer from Ford that would have paid $75,000 (about $171,000 today) if the time machine was switched to a Mustang. After tinkering with the idea, writer Bob Gale realized he hit gold when he decided a DeLorean should be the time machine, especially given the car’s troubled history and the carmaker’s even more troubled history (John DeLorean, who later wrote Gale and director Bob Zemeckis a thank-you note for using his car, was busted in 1982 in a $24 million cocaine deal).
BACK TO THE FUTURE 3 ROTTEN TOMATOES MOVIE
In early drafts of BTTF (there were many) the time machine was a refrigerator, a gag that George Lucas and Steve Spielberg finally got to use years later - to much mockery - in an Indiana Jones movie that shall go unnamed.ĥ. Steven Spielberg responded, farcically thanking the executive for his joke and saying the entire crew got a kick out of it.Ĥ. During production, a Universal executive sent a serious memo to producers saying he thought the film’s name was confusing (how does one go back to the future?) and offered a suggestion of his own: Spaceman From Pluto.
It’s actually an homage to the 1923 silent film Safety Last! starring Harold Lloyd.ģ. In the iconic opening sequence that shows dozen of clocks ticking and tocking, all running 20 minutes fast as part of a Doc Brown experiment, there’s one clock quickly shown that depicts a man hanging off the minute-hand of a large clock, just as Doc would do later in the movie. (It didn’t seem to stop Disney from buying the Star Wars films in which siblings Luke and Leia share a kiss.)Ģ.
Disney declined after saying it was a “movie about incest” referring to the 1955 scene in which Marty kisses the 18-year-old version of his mother. The Back to the Future script was rejected 40 times before Universal bought it. On this, perhaps the most important day in the history of the globe, FTW looks at 30 facts from the iconic film trilogy.ġ. After years of waiting and countless Facebook hoaxes, today, Octois the day in the Back to the Future movies when Marty McFly and Doc Brown left 1985 to travel to 2015 in order to save Marty’s future kids from peril.
0 kommentar(er)
