Facts about Back to the Future

If you haven't seen the Back to the Future series you should really check it out. Here is a list of the 10 facts about the Back to the Future movie series.

10. The time machine was actually going to be a refrigerator instead of the famous deLorean.

9. Worried that people would not like a film with the word 'future' in the name, Sid Sheinberg, a studio executive, tried to change Back to the Future to the title Spaceman From Pluto.

8. In Back to the Future III when "Mad Dog" Tannen tried to hang Marty McFly, Michael J. Fox was accidentally hanged, rendering him unconscious for a little while.

7. In early drafts of Back to the Future II, Marty journeys to 1967, which is where he is arrested for not having a draft card.

6. John Lithgow, Dudley Moore and Jeff Goldblum were all suggested for the role of Doc Brown.

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5. There was never supposed to be a sequel to Back to the Future. "The flying car at the end was a joke, a great payoff," Zemeckis recollects, but nothing was to become of that.

4. Doc Brown's dog Einstein was going to be a chimpanzee in the movie.

3. Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) and Lorraine  (Lea Thompson) only meet once in the whole franchise.

2. The actor Elijah Wood (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit) made his film premiere in Back to the Future II as the child playing the arcade game Wild Gunman in the Cafe 80's.

1. The Delorean was chosen as the time-travelling car essentially because the filmmakers thought that its wing doors could conceivably be confused for a UFO.

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