Back to the Future Day first began on Oct. 21, 2015, commemorating the day to which Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), Dr. Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd), and Jennifer Parker (Elizabeth Shue) traveled in the DeLorean time machine at the beginning of Back to the Future Part II, to get the skinny on the McFly’s rotten kids.
To celebrate, fans dress up like their favorite characters and watch the movies together.
In honor of the noteworthy date—and also the 35th anniversary of the Back to the Future movie trilogy—Universal will release Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy on 4K Ultra HD for the first time ever.
According to SyFy Wire, the bonus features reveal a woulda-shoulda-coulda alternate title and also shows the original design of the time machine, which wasn’t always the iconic car we all know.
“In the first two drafts of the script, the time machine was actually a time chamber built out of an old refrigerator which Doc Brown had to drag around on the back of a pickup truck,” Bob Gale, the movie’s co-writer/producer, reveals in the clip.
He goes on to explain that director/co-writer Robert Zemeckis wasn’t thrilled with that idea, knowing this was a special opportunity to create something truly iconic and he came up with the idea of the DeLorean.
“When we finally got the movie to pre-production, director Bob Zemeckis was starting to think about how he was going to film some of these scenes, and he came up with the brilliant idea it would make a lot more sense for Doc Brown to have built the time machine into a car,” Gale explained.
The original Back to the Future was released on July 3 in 1985 and became a huge blockbuster, going on to earn $388 million at the box office. The franchise would go on to take in $975 million worldwide.
You can order the Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy on 4K Ultra HD here on Amazon.
Featured Image: Universal Pictures
Source: SyFy Wire
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