10 More Movies You Didn't Know Recycled Footage From Other Films
9. Back To The Future Part II's Cloud Shots Were Borrowed From Firefox
Back to the Future Part II's opening credits are set in front of breathtaking footage of the DeLorean flying through the clouds from a first-person perspective.
Though you probably assumed a production as well-minted as this - rocking a $40 million budget, over double that of the original - probably just strapped a camera to an aircraft and flew it into the heavens, that actually wasn't the case at all.
Instead, director Robert Zemeckis re-used footage that appeared in the 1982 Clint Eastwood action-thriller Firefox, where Eastwood played an American pilot tasked with stealing the titular high-tech Soviet aircraft.
Legendary Hollywood aerial cinematographer Clay Lacy shot most of the in-air footage for Firefox, which appears prominently during the film's various dogfight sequences, and was then seamlessly used again seven years later in Back to the Future Part II.
Possibly as a wink to this - but surely more to the western genre as a whole - Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) then adopts the pseudonym "Clint Eastwood" in the western-themed Back to the Future Part III.