Remember when the Back to the Future movies came to life and showed us a beautiful future? Hoverboards! Cars that can fly! Shoes that tie themselves! Jaws 19! Those gaudy, dazzling hats! And we nailed it, right? You can see it all right now if you go outside, and it’s all ready to be used! Despite the fact that we don’t have hoverboards, we’ve accomplished a lot, and it’s incredible to think back on this classic 1980s film franchise that defined a generation. This franchise, in our opinion, handled time travel better than any other film in the 30 years since. The Back to the Future movies are one of the few movie franchise that is, in a word, perfect. They are humorous and poignant, exhilarating and eternally unforgettable.
We took another look again at these incredible flicks, as well as all kinds of Back to the Future facts you may not have known. Huey Lewis, in addition to providing the theme song, had a cameo appearance in the first movie. Or how about the fact that both Ronald Reagan and Clint Eastwood were major fans? Or that Johnny Depp tried out for the role of Marty McFly? Below, you’ll find all of this and more! Start the flux capacitor and prepare to see the most fascinating behind-the-scenes details from the greatest time travel films of all time!
#1 In the whole franchise, Doc Brown and Lea Thompson only meet once.
Lorraine and Doc endure an uneasy meeting when Lorraine accompanies Marty back to Doc’s residence. Despite appearing together in five films and one television movie, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson have never spoken on-screen conversation.
#2 Technically, Marty throwing the Frisbee in 1885 is correct.
Marty uses a Frisbie pie dish to knock a pistol out of Mad Dog’s grasp in Part III. The Frisbie Pie Company was founded in Connecticut in 1871. Their pie pans were thrown on the Yale campus, leading to the development of Frisbees.
#3 Time travel is used in the third film to seamlessly tie into the first.
Doc informs Marty that he was inspired to invent the flux capacitor after hurting his head on the bathroom sink while attempting to hang a clock over his toilet in Back to the Future. When Doc hurries into the bathroom after seeing Marty at his house in Back to the Future III, you can barely make out the clock hanging over the toilet he slid on.
#4 The Story Behind the Franchise Is Very Touching
The films were primarily inspired by Bob Gale seeing his father’s high school yearbook and wondering if he and his father would have been friends as teenagers.
#5 Back to the Future: The Sequel’s Creative Writing May Have Aided a Plot Point
Biff is seen during the school dance “spiking” the punch with booze. George is depicted sipping the punch in Back to the Future before confronting Biff in the parking lot. Drinking Biff’s spiked punch may have contributed to George’s uncommon bravery in the initial scenario.
#6 Back to the Future II is the very first movie to feature the same actor playing two different characters on screen at the same time.
The VistaGlide is the most noticeable effect in Back to the Future II. The effect of the same performer conversing with oneself is used in three situations. The dinner sequence in 2015, 1955 Biff talking to 2015 Biff in the garage, and 1955 Doc talking to 1985 Doc were the three sequences that were shot. The camera had to be divided into thirds to make the dinner sequence with the VistaGlide, and Fox had to appear three times to portray his older self, Marty Jr., and his daughter Marlene. It’s the first movie to feature the same actor playing two separate roles on screen at the same time.
#7 Back to the Future III contains a fantastic Clint Eastwood joke.
When Marty mentions Clint Eastwood as Doc and Marty are at the drive-in prepping the DeLorean for the journey to 1885, Doc responds, “Clint who?” On the drive-wall in’s is a movie poster for Revenge of the Creature and Tarantula, two flicks in which a young, then-unknown Eastwood makes some of his earliest cinematic performances.
#8 Michael J. Fox was actually (accidentally) hanged.
When “Mad Dog” tried to lynch Marty in Back to the Future III, Michael J. Fox was unintentionally hung, putting him comatose for a brief while. In his book, Lucky Man, he discusses this.
