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The original ending of Back to the Future was used in Indiana Jones instead (featuring Coca Cola™)
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I legitimately can't tell if Cryer just improvised an incredibly well-thought-out bit or this was actually in the original concept for the movie.
I saw a Behind Closed Doors feature about BTTF recently. It was very interesting. Look out for it in your cable guides, REELZ channel. There are other similar features for Ghostbusters, Top Gun and others.
Anyway, yeah iirc that fridge and nuke stuff was in an early script and that's as far as that got. I also didn't realize until seeing this feature that they shot a bunch of the movie with Eric Stoltz in the lead role, before replacing him with Michael Fox. Another funny was that the studio producer person wanted to call it, "Spaceman from Pluto", because the studio was afraid after seeing other time travel movies bomb. Spielberg said he'd deal with that, and he called the exec to say, "Good one! That was funny, we love your sense of humor.", knowing he'd be too embarrassed to push that he was being serious.
They also didn't plan for a sequel, despite the way the ending looked. And if they had planned ahead, they wouldn't have had the girlfriend in the car, whom they quickly dumped in an alley at the start of the second movie.
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Anyway, yeah iirc that fridge and nuke stuff was in an early script and that's as far as that got. I also didn't realize until seeing this feature that they shot a bunch of the movie with Eric Stoltz in the lead role, before replacing him with Michael Fox. Another funny was that the studio producer person wanted to call it, "Spaceman from Pluto", because the studio was afraid after seeing other time travel movies bomb. Spielberg said he'd deal with that, and he called the exec to say, "Good one! That was funny, we love your sense of humor.", knowing he'd be too embarrassed to push that he was being serious.
They also didn't plan for a sequel, despite the way the ending looked. And if they had planned ahead, they wouldn't have had the girlfriend in the car, whom they quickly dumped in an alley at the start of the second movie.
Eric Stoltz as Marty Mcfly in Back to the Future!
Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy Blu-ray will be released on October 26. The Hollywood Reporter has our first look at one of the special features...
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The story I had known was that the time machine itself was a fridge, and I didn't know anything about Coca Cola being the fuel
Yeah, there was no mention of coca cola as fuel in the long behind the scenes feature I mentioned, which had interviews with many of the people from the film.
When i read the title I thought the Time Machine was going end up in a warehouse waiting for "Top men"
i watched the inndiana trilogy for the first time like 2 weeks ago
and i really can't fathom why people hate the refrigerator scene in crystal skull, mind you i haven't seen crystal skull
but with everything that happens on the original trilogy, i dont know how can you have a problem with tha refrigerator scene lol
and i really can't fathom why people hate the refrigerator scene in crystal skull, mind you i haven't seen crystal skull
but with everything that happens on the original trilogy, i dont know how can you have a problem with tha refrigerator scene lol
I am not as old as you so i had to think about it, yeah in the era of lawn darts you have to be careful about that shit
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Yeah apparently Spielberg scrapped this idea not because he thought it was ridiculous, but because he was afraid kids would trap themselves in fridges trying to imitate Marty
They could have done some cool shit, like showing a stuff wookie, the mash potato mountain from third kind, the axl from the cop car from american graffeti, etc
Just wanted to chime in and say it is super weird to see his name without the J.
the nuclear test site scene is one of the few purely enjoyable sequences in Crystal Skull. Started from a good source, apparently.
Turns out in the final cut it wasn't Coke that Doc needed to power the Mr. Fusion. It was Miller Genuine Draft.
He filmed 6 weeks I think. How long was the shooting with Fox ? This could tell us how much footage there could be
Spielberg want the do the Fridge scene for years and Lucas wanted to do ancient aliens for years. Their passions finally crossed and audiences were blessed with the majestic 4th Indy movie.
Let me just say here that I had no idea Ben Stiller was even on Twitter, much less was this much of a Democrat. Pleasantly surprised.
Being near an atomic blast to power a time machine sounds like that time traveling ferengi episode of DS9.
Wikipedia says 100 days filming, which appears to be from when Fox joined. Before that, about 6-7 weeks with Stoltz.
Another anecdote is that Marty's girlfriend got fired before she filmed a single scene, only because she was considered too tall to play opposite Fox. Since she hadn't filmed anything yet, I assume they didn't have all that much footage with Stoltz.
Btw, Stoltz is still in the movie. When Marty punches Biff in the diner, that fist is Eric's. You can't see his face though.
Another anecdote is that Marty's girlfriend got fired before she filmed a single scene, only because she was considered too tall to play opposite Fox. Since she hadn't filmed anything yet, I assume they didn't have all that much footage with Stoltz.
Btw, Stoltz is still in the movie. When Marty punches Biff in the diner, that fist is Eric's. You can't see his face though.
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It's the perfect blend of comics Luthor and Gene Hackman Luthor. One of my absolute favorite portrayals of the character.
wouldn't indy break every bone in his body given that he was thrown completely clear of the blast
This was always my take on it. It's stupid, sure, but is it really that much more stupid than jumping out of the plane with the raft? Neither are survivable in real life. Action/Adventure films are full of cartoonish stuff like this.
I had some issues with the ending myself, but the fridge never bothered me.
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If you were writing the first words of a novel version of Back to the Future, how would you do it? Maybe you'd introduce the concept of time being important, like the film did with all them crazy...
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I read this Tumblr a long time ago and it made me remember I had actually read the novel as a kid.
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The fridge scene is something you would see in a Looney Toons cartoon. The raft scene, not so much.
The only scenes with Stoltz that I have seen (clips or pictures) were the diner scene and the mall parking lot. Have more been released?
Not gonna lie, that sounds amazing.
Back to the Terminator needs to happen.
