As Back To The Future celebrates its 30th anniversary, we delve into a 25-year-old making-of book.
Would they have shared much in common?
Might they have hated each other?
Its typography is cheerfully large, but its studded with set photos, concept drawings and colorful little anecdotes.
That idea was dropped due to safety concerns.
Universal wasnt, it turned out, too keen on a story about a teenager who bootlegs movies.
The studio refused to let us make a film where the hero was a video pirate, Zemeckis said.
Fox said of trying to learn the accent, The dialect was a bitch.
Cinematographer Dean Cundey initially made his name for his regular, quite brilliant work for John Carpenter.
As an artform, visual effects were in the doldrums in the Hollywood of the 60s and early 70s.
All that changed withStar Wars,with George Lucas setting up ILM to achieve its numerous complicated effects shots.
The same page also provides an early mention of Zemeckis mischievous suggestion that the hoverboards actually existed.
And thus, a naggingly persistent urban legend was born.
Then theres the 77-year-old Lorraine inPart II,and the Biffhorrific Lorraine, with her big hair and jewellery.
The great thing about Back To The Future is that I get to play all three.
Remember the amusing Jaws 19 gag inPart II?
Well, the series has another link to theJawsfranchise one thats easy to blink and miss.
If youre wondering who we have to thank for Christopher Lloyds casting, its producer Neil Canton.
Lloyds wife Carol thankfully managed to make him reconsider.
The end ofBack To The Futureintroduced Doc Browns modified, hovering DeLorean with its Mr Fusion energy reactor.
Apologies: its one of our rare article splits.
We thus only split it very long pieces, or picture-heavy ones, where its helpful to do so.
On with the list… Production designer Rick Carter dubs it the Jules Verne train, named after one of Docs favorite authors.
Here are some storyboards fromPart II.Note how the date still matches the one in the finished film.
Heres a fun little Easter egg in Part III: the local newspaper editors named M.R.
Gale a reference to Bob Gales full name, Michael Robert Gale.
The guy in the hat above?
Thats cinematographer Dean Cundey on the set ofPart III.
He decided to dress in the style of the period he was shooting, the book reveals.
Filming onPart IIItook place over three-and-a-half months in Sonora and Jamestown California.
The book says that In 2015, the police will be friendly, likeable, sexy and women.
Bob Zemeckis wanted them to be so attractive that people wouldnt mind being arrested.
These include Do you know where your children are?
and Look before you gleek!
The scene was later cut to save costs.
The master of hand-drawn poster design Drew Struzan was responsible for theBack To The Futureseries magnificent posters.
Our favourites the one on the left, with Marty McFly emerging from the stop watch.
