The story you likely know: after receiving a letter from 1985-edition Doc Brown dated to 1885, Marty finds Doc Brown '55 and requisitions his help to first find the DeLorean that has been hidden in a cave outside Hill Valley for 70 years, then to fix it, and lastly to completely ignore the older Doc's express injunction against returning to 1885 for a rescue mission. Thus it is always with threequels that are not cartoons about toy mortality. I cannot state with authority that Zemeckis used all his Back to the Future energy in juggling the multiple time frames and overlapping action of the second film in the trilogy, but compared to that film's weird energy, Part III feels a touch sedate. To a certain degree, they are, too: with pretty much the exact same set of creative minds as the second film, from designer Rick Carter to cinematographer Dean Cundey (who in fact shot all three entries), Part III is every bit as confident and slick as its two predecessors but it is hard to ignore a distinct feeling of deflation. You would be within your rights to assume that, being filmed essentially as one four-hour movie, Back to the Future, Part II and 1990's Back to the Future, Part III would be of functionally uniform quality. See also " Lost, third- and fourth-season finales of". In such ways do time-travel narratives offer up all kinds of structural awesomeness.
Fox, roller of the eyeballs'.A recap: never expecting to put together a sequel to Back to the Future, Robert Zemeckis found himself making two, right in a row, each of them telling a discrete standalone story linked by a cliffhanger ending that takes place seconds after the climax of the first movie. Michael is having his chair changed to read 'Michael J. Underneath 'Robert Zemeckis', it now reads 'Guardian of the imagination'. Wilson Online): As a joke, the prop men have changed the back of Bob Z's chair. Wilson (who played Biff, Griff and Mad Dog Tannen) wrote down that detail in a diary entry from 1991 that originally appeared in US Magazine (via Tom F. Fox's on-set chair says "Roller of the Eyeballs," but Tom F. Nowadays, if a Back to the Future sequel was shooting in someone's neighborhood today, everyone would know about it within the hour.Īlso, for those wondering, there's no clear indicator as to why Michael J.
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Maybe that's a testament to how much more nosy people are today, or just to how much easier it is to come by information about where a particular movie is shooting when word can move lightning fast across the internet and social media.
It doesn't look like the set was all that closed off to the public, or at least to the people who lived in the neighborhood where they were shooting. Sometimes you forget just how many people are needed to pull off a simple scene like this, and that should also make you realize just how much more work is involved when it's a much more complicated sequence being shot. Fox) has just come home after the DeLorean is wrecked by a train, briefly talks with his family and Biff, and heads off to pick up Jennifer. Here's the behind the scenes footage Back to the Future Part III from (via Reddit):Īs you can see, the production is at the McFly house, right at the garage, shooting a scene from near the end of the movie. She's a peeping tom! It's nothing too revealing, but it gives you a good idea of the vibe on a film set, which usually requires a lot of standing around. Yesterday brought a lot of fun updates for fans of Back to the Future, from the forthcoming arrival of Pepsi Perfect (in a very limited supply) to a trailer for Jaws 19 to the arrival of skateboards modeled after the iconic hoverboards from the film, just as the word for the floating device has been recognized by the dictionary.Īnd now we bring some unique footage from a Back to the Future Part III set video, shot by someone who just happened to live next door to the house that was used as the McFly residence.