Steven Spielberg responded, farcically thanking the executive for his joke and saying the entire crew got a kick out of it.Ĥ. During production, a Universal executive sent a serious memo to producers saying he thought the film’s name was confusing (how does one go back to the future?) and offered a suggestion of his own: Spaceman From Pluto. It’s actually an homage to the 1923 silent film Safety Last! starring Harold Lloyd.ģ. In the iconic opening sequence that shows dozen of clocks ticking and tocking, all running 20 minutes fast as part of a Doc Brown experiment, there’s one clock quickly shown that depicts a man hanging off the minute-hand of a large clock, just as Doc would do later in the movie. (It didn’t seem to stop Disney from buying the Star Wars films in which siblings Luke and Leia share a kiss.)Ģ. Disney declined after saying it was a “movie about incest” referring to the 1955 scene in which Marty kisses the 18-year-old version of his mother. The Back to the Future script was rejected 40 times before Universal bought it. On this, perhaps the most important day in the history of the globe, FTW looks at 30 facts from the iconic film trilogy.ġ. After years of waiting and countless Facebook hoaxes, today, Octois the day in the Back to the Future movies when Marty McFly and Doc Brown left 1985 to travel to 2015 in order to save Marty’s future kids from peril.
