20 Things You Somehow Missed In Back To The Future

20. The Head Producer HATED The Title

Bob Gale came up with the idea for Back to the Future after seeing an old yearbook photo of his father and wondered if they would have been friends if they went to school together. When he and the director, Robert Zemeckis, agreed to adapt this idea into a film, they thought Back to the Future would be a great title. Universal Pictures's head-producer, Sidney Sheinberg, rejected this idea, stating a film with the word "Future" in the title would bomb.

Sheinberg sent a note to the executive producer, Steven Spielberg, telling him to change the title to Spaceman From Pluto. Spielberg knew it wasn't a wise idea to tell the most powerful man in Universal Pictures his title sucked so he pretended Sheinberg concocted "Spaceman From Pluto" as a joke. Sheinberg was too embarrassed to correct Spielberg and left the name be.

But Zemeckis was cheeky enough to make a reference to Sheinberg's title. When the family on the farm look at the DeLorean, the son shows his father a comic with a UFO on the cover which looks like the time machine. If you look at the comic closely, the story is called "Space Zombies From Pluto."