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‘Back To The Future’ Turns 40: A Time-Traveling Flashback
- On July 3, 1985, Universal Pictures released Back to the Future, a landmark sci-fi comedy that celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
- Following their 1980 comedy Used Cars, Gale and Zemeckis faced 44 rejections before Universal approved their risky time travel script, which Disney passed on due to its risqué plot.
- Produced on a $19 million budget, Back to the Future grossed $388.8 million worldwide and stayed No. 1 at US box offices for 11 of its first 12 weeks.
- Lucas Hallauer, the understudy in the Back to the Future musical, launches a backstage vlog series starting July 24, amid the franchise's 40th anniversary celebrations.
- Modern viewers may see the film’s teenage mother-son romance as controversial; co-creator Bob Gale says studios would interpret it as paedophilia today.
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Screenwriter Bob Gale found a yearbook of his father and wondered if teenagers would have been friends. From that occurrence he developed with Robert Zemeckis a story of temporary journeys where family paradoxes became the heart of the plot. Both came from working on the crazy comedy Used Cars and needed success, but the script was rejected more than 40 times. Some studies considered her too innocent for Porky’s time, others were afraid that she…
Lea Thompson says the first 'Back to the Future' is still the best
Forty years later, the actress loves attending screenings of the time travel classic with new audiences. Ralph Nelson/Universal Lea Thompson in 'Back to the Future'Forty years ago this week, everyone was looking 30 years into the past. (Wait, let's grab a calculator and make sure that adds up.) The release of Back to the Future firmly established Michael J. Fox as a superstar (and Teen Wolf six weeks later confirmed it), thanks to his charming a…
Great Scott! It's A Back to the Future Block Party! - Wellington Daily News
Kick off your Independence Day weekend by going Back to the Future! Local podcast A Cartridge and a Quest is teaming up with the Wellington Regent Theatre to host a time-bending celebration: the Back to the Future 40th Anniversary Block Party, happening Thursday, July 3 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Throw on your comfiest sneakers and head downtown for an evening of food, sweet treats, a beer garden, and a variety of local vendors—including Big Sky Tie Dy…
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