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Get ready to uncover some astonishing secrets and quirks behind the iconic Back to the Future trilogy. From casting surprises to hidden movie details, we'll dive into facts that even the biggest fans might not know. Whether it’s about the famous DeLorean or the creative inspirations, these unusual tidbits add a whole new layer of fun to this beloved franchise.
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00:00I have to tell you about the future! I have to tell you about the future!
00:08Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most out there,
00:12fun, and random facts about the beloved 80s film Back to the Future.
00:16Because some of these bits of trivia include key plot points, a spoiler alert is in effect.
00:21I've seen this one, this is a classic.
00:24Number 10. The film was inspired by a yearbook. Picture this. You're going through your parents'
00:28basement full of old relics and stumble upon a high school yearbook. You learn that your father
00:32was the president of his class. You've got a real attitude problem, McFly. You're a slacker.
00:38You remind me of your father when he went here. He was a slacker too.
00:41Now you wonder what it would be like to be friends with him as a teenager.
00:44This is precisely what happened to Back to the Future co-screenwriter Bob Gale.
00:48This is how he got the idea for the film.
00:50Would I have been friends with my dad if I had gone to high school with him?
00:54And boom. That's when the proverbial bolt of lightning, shall we say, struck me.
01:00Who wouldn't want to go back in time seeing your old school and how your parents were in
01:04their adolescence? Everyone was just a kid once, even our parents. We're all nostalgic
01:08for that time. And that is a feeling that this movie really encapsulates.
01:12Mom. Dad. Did you hit your head? You guys, you guys look great.
01:18Number 9. Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis faced a lot of rejection.
01:22You're never going to get a chance to play in front of anybody.
01:25Marty, one rejection isn't the end of the world.
01:27Back to the Future is a legendary movie that has stood the test of time. Past, present,
01:32and we're sure future. But it wasn't an easy film to get made. While it's not uncommon for
01:36writers to have to pitch their scripts to a few different studios before landing a deal,
01:40this movie was really put through the ringer.
01:42He didn't like Professor Brown. We said, okay, how about Doc Brown? Sid said, okay.
01:47He made us change the name of Marty's mother to the name of his own wife.
01:52According to Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, who wrote the script together,
01:55they were rejected over 40 times until Universal Pictures finally gave it the green light.
02:00Frank decided not to make the movie.
02:02Uh, no.
02:03We didn't know why.
02:05We're pretty sure those other studios are having some major regrets.
02:08If only you could go back and change the past, right?
02:10We all make mistakes in life, children.
02:12Number 8. The DeLorean wasn't the original time machine.
02:16The DeLorean was the perfect choice for the time machine in Back to the Future.
02:19Are you telling me that you built a time machine out of a DeLorean?
02:24Like Doc Brown said, if you're gonna build a car into a time machine,
02:27why not do it with some style?
02:29Yet, the original plan was to have a refrigerator.
02:32What was it?
02:32It was a chamber built from an old refrigerator.
02:35And Doc Brown had to haul it around on the back of a pickup truck.
02:38Clearly, that's nowhere near as theatrical as the DeLorean.
02:42And thanks to this film, generations of viewers are now obsessed with this niche car.
02:46John DeLorean even wrote letters to thank the film's writers
02:49because he was so thrilled that his car was featured so prominently.
02:52I mean, look, the car is the coolest looking car that was available.
02:56It still is.
02:56It still is, you know.
02:57The Gold Wing doors is just perfect.
02:59We're not so sure Frigidaire would have expressed such gratitude, but we'll never know.
03:03Number 7. There was a chimp in the script.
03:06The original time machine wasn't the only thing that needed tweaking.
03:09We all know and love Doc's dog, Einstein,
03:11and we cannot imagine any other animal as the world's first-time traveler.
03:14Have a good trip, Einstein.
03:16Watch your head.
03:18However, Doc's animal sidekick was supposed to be a chimp named Chimp in the original script.
03:23The reason he was cut was because the president of Universal Studios at the time
03:27didn't believe the film would make any money with a chimpanzee in it.
03:30Movies with chimps in them don't make any money.
03:32Or, so says Sid Sheinberg, Frank's appointed overseer of the project.
03:37We're not sure his logic is sound, but we think this change was a good one.
03:41I'm sorry, you little devil.
03:44Can you imagine Doc sending a chimp into the future in a fridge?
03:47That's a totally different movie.
03:48Number 6. Thomas F. Wilson has answers.
03:51Hello? Hello? Anybody home?
03:54Think McFly? Think.
03:57Biff Tannen is the antagonist we love to hate.
04:00Thomas F. Wilson played him flawlessly in all three installments of this film series.
04:04This role is his most iconic to date.
04:07You and me, Lorraine.
04:08Watch your class.
04:09It's meant to be.
04:11I'm gonna marry you someday, Lorraine.
04:14Someday you'll be my wife.
04:16Apparently, when people approach him about it, he is ready.
04:19Let's get over the Back to the Future stuff right off the bat.
04:23Yes, I was in the movie.
04:24You're all sitting there.
04:25That's not the guy from Back to the Future.
04:27Yes, it is.
04:28When fans interact with him, he has a card for them that answers their FAQs.
04:32Some of the questions include whether Michael J. Fox is nice.
04:35Spoiler alert, he is.
04:36And whether the manure was real, which it wasn't.
04:46He even has a song version where he answers various questions.
04:49What's Michael J. Fox like?
04:52He's nice.
04:52What's Christopher Lloyd like?
04:54Kinda quiet.
04:55What's Crispin Glover like?
04:58Unusual.
04:58Stop asking me the question.
05:00We think this whole concept is both genius and hilarious.
05:04Number 5.
05:05Michael J. Fox didn't sing.
05:06Michael J. Fox shines in this role.
05:08His comedic timing is impeccable, and his physical comedy steals the scenes.
05:13You're my mom.
05:14You're my mom.
05:15My name is Lorraine.
05:18Lorraine Baines?
05:20Yeah.
05:20There's just one thing that he did in the film that we really can't give him any credit for.
05:24During the Johnny B. Goode scene at the Enchantment Under the Sea dance, Fox as Marty really is playing the guitar, but his singing is not his own.
05:32Way down in Louisiana, down in New Orleans, way back up in the woods of lonely evergreens.
05:38There stood a long cabin made of earth and wood, where lived a country boy named Johnny B. Goode.
05:44Instead, Mark Campbell from the band Jack Mack and the Heart Attack is the voice behind this tune.
05:48They could have fooled us.
05:49And even though he wasn't credited, we're giving him credit here since we think it's very due.
05:54Here's the thing.
05:55Know this coming in.
05:56You can't ever tell anybody you're it.
05:59There's no screen credit.
06:00Number 4.
06:01The cast almost included Melora Harden.
06:04Back to the Future is infamous for having initially cast Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly before switching him out from Michael J. Fox.
06:11Well, they often ask me about the chemistry.
06:13I just felt we had chemistry from the instant we walked on the set.
06:17We were both shameless.
06:18We were both shameless.
06:19Yes, we just, you know, we were so happy to see each other.
06:22That wasn't the only cast member who got the boot.
06:24After Gale and Zemeckis decided that Stoltz wasn't the right pick,
06:27they had to decide what to do with Melora Harden, who was cast as Marty's girlfriend Jennifer.
06:32I was 17 at the time, too.
06:34So very, very painful.
06:35There's no doubt it was very painful.
06:38But I think I'd already had painful things happen.
06:41So I knew how to get through things.
06:43Harden is taller than Michael J. Fox, which ultimately led to her being replaced by Claudia Wells.
06:48It was apparently the two female executives at the time that thought that it was emasculating for their lead character, male,
06:57to be in scenes with a woman that was taller than him.
07:02We don't think we could have watched Jan Levinson the same way had she appeared in this film.
07:07Number three.
07:07Michael J. Fox's filming schedule was crazy.
07:10Speaking of replacing Eric Stoltz, that decision led to a lot of chaos in Fox's schedule.
07:15While working on the film, he had to keep his commitment to Family Ties,
07:18which he starred in as Alex P. Keaton from 1982 to 1989.
07:23Well, Dad, I was thinking, you know, term papers and exams come and go,
07:26but the family unit is the one true constant in life.
07:29So he worked on Family Ties from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
07:32Then he'd work on Back to the Future until 2.30 in the morning.
07:35This grueling schedule lasted for two months, and we're not sure how he pulled it off.
07:40All it takes is a little self-confidence.
07:41You know, if you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything.
07:47When you watch the TV series or the film, there is no indication of any sleep deprivation.
07:52That is a nod to Fox's incredible acting ability and dedication to his craft.
07:56I gotta go.
07:57Thanks very much.
07:58It was wonderful.
07:59You were all great.
08:00See y'all later.
08:02Much later.
08:03Number two.
08:04There was supposed to be a nuclear explosion scene.
08:07The most memorable and iconic moment of this movie is inarguably the scene in which Marty is sent back to the future.
08:13In about 30 years, I hope so.
08:18We still hold our breath when Marty can't get the car started and Doc is hanging from the top of the clock tower.
08:23Can you believe that the clock tower wasn't originally going to be part of the film?
08:26Save the clock tower.
08:28Save the clock tower.
08:30Mayor Wilson is sponsoring an initiative to replace that clock.
08:3430 years ago, lightning struck that clock tower and the clock hasn't run since.
08:39The ending was supposed to include a nuclear explosion.
08:42Marty was supposed to drive through a test site as a way to obtain the nuclear fuel he needed to get back to the future,
08:47but this whole sequence was too pricey.
08:49Thus, the lightning hitting the clock tower idea was born.
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09:16Number one.
09:17The movie's title was almost vastly different.
09:20You've got to come back with me.
09:22Where?
09:24Back to the future.
09:25Back to the future.
09:26It seems like a paradoxical title, but it's actually brilliant, encompassing the entire mission of the film.
09:32Bizarrely, the movie's title was almost Spaceman from Pluto.
09:35What on earth is this thing I'm wearing?
09:37Well, this is a radiation suit.
09:40Radiation suit?
09:41Of course.
09:43Because of all the fallout from the atomic wars.
09:44We admit that this title is more clever than it originally seems, as Marty is basically an alien in his own hometown.
09:51He also uses the Spaceman trope to his advantage while getting George and Lorraine together.
09:56Silence, Earthling!
09:59My name is Darth Vader.
10:01We even see mention of space later when George publishes a novel.
10:05However, it certainly doesn't tell you much about the film and could even be seen as misleading for a story about time travel.
10:11So they definitely made the right call in changing it.
10:14Steven said, I know what to do.
10:16Dear Sid, thank you for your most hilarious memo.
10:19We all got a big laugh out of it.
10:21Keep them coming.
10:23That was it.
10:24Which of these fun facts had you saying,
10:26Great Scott!
10:27Let us know in the comments.
10:28Hey doc, we better back up.
10:29We don't have enough road to get up to 88.
10:31Roads?
10:32Where we're going, we don't need roads.
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