20 Things You Somehow Missed In Back To The Future
No matter how many times you watch it, there's always something new to find.
Time-travel is one of the most fascinating and trippy concepts in sci-fi. Since HG Wells wrote The Time Machine in 1895, everyone has fantasised about what they would do if the could travel to the past or future. This concept has been explored in many ways; to create your own legacy in Bill & Ted, being trapped in a time-loop in Groundhog Day, or stopping a catastrophe before it occurs in The Terminator.
But the most celebrated time-travel movie has got to be Back to the Future. The premise is genius; What if you went back in time and stopped your parents from meeting, meaning you were never born! But the film didn't just have a great spin on time-travel. It had a stellar cast, a masterful script, astounding practical stunts, and one of the greatest soundtracks in cinema.
As amazing as Back to the Future is, the behind-the-scene dramas, references to other films, sneaky cameos, and little Easter eggs are just as fascinating. You may know one or two secrets lurking in the film but I guarantee you didn't catch them all.
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."