10 Bizarre First Drafts Of Famous Movies

2. Back To The Future - Marty Tries To Kill Himself In A Coke-Powered Time-Travelling Fridge

Back To The Future is one of the most iconic and beloved movies of the 1980's. It's treated with such reverence that in these days where just about everything is being re-made and rebooted, there's not a whisper about a Back To The Future do-over. It took quite a few do-overs, though, before Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale had a script that studios were interested in. In one very early draft Marty McFly was suicidal, and in a "hilarious" misunderstanding climbed into Doc Brown's time machine (then a stationary, refigerator-like device) believing it would kill him. Thankfully, the duo decided a suicidal protagonist didn't really fit with the upbeat, comedic style they were aiming for, but even after they changed that aspect, the movies early drafts were still decidedly weird. Doc Brown lived in an abandoned theatre and ran a bootleg video operation on the side. He also had a pet monkey, rather than a dog, and his time machine (still shaped like a fridge, and not a DeLorean) only works when Marty accidentally spills Coca-Cola on it. The trigger for Marty to go back to the past is Brown being shot by government operatives. When he gets to the '50's the script hits similar beats to that of the finished movie, and when he gets back to the present day it has changed. But whereas the finished movie shows that Marty came back to the perfect life, in the script the new '80's looks like the sci-fi fantasy people in the 1950's thought it would be - with robots and flying cars. The weirdest thing of all, though, is that Marty's beloved rock and roll no longer exists. Why? We can only speculate that after hearing Marty butcher Johnny B Goode at the school dance, society as a whole decided that they didn't want anything to do with whatever the hell that was. Way to go, Marty. You ruined the future for everyone. In the end it was decided to save the robots and flying cars aspect for the sequel, and any reference to Marty destroying a whole genre of music before it had even been invented was abandoned.