Things we learned at the Back To The long run reunion [Great Scotts]

Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Bob Gale, Neil Canton, Robert Zemeckis and Huey Lewis all gathered in Big apple, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Back To The longer term. Here’s what we learned.

How Zemeckis made the first flat screen TV.

Robert Zemeckis: You know the way we had to do the flat-panel TV screen. It’s not an optical, because Michael stands in front of it. We had to get a chunk of rear projection material and put it in a frame. We had a video projector film on an aperture that went in the course of the back wall inside the set. So that the projector and the frame turned together. So when Michael went and altered the frame, a majority of these special effects guys turned this entire rig. We predicted that right.

Where Marty McFly and the remaining of the Back To The longer term characters be today.

Lea Thompson didn’t know where Lorriane McFly can be today, because she played so many alternative scenarios of the character.

Michael J. Fox: ” Marty’s a family man, [I will see him] battling his kids, doing an analogous things that I’m doing. Although I’m not fighting my kids, but they certainly are a handful [Laughs].”

Christopher Lloyd: ” Doc, I don’t think Doc’s changed. He still developing with new contraptions, ideally.”

Mary Steenburgen: I suppose she would still be married to the Doc and they’d be flying inside and outside of the time space continuum.”

What props each actor and crew member kept.

Right now there’s currently an auction of Back To The long run props, with the whole proceeds going to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. So some of the people on the panel have donated these things to the charity, but several people have some leftover mementos.

Bob Gale: ” The us Today items are from my personal collection, so yes I kept some, but I also donated…It’s interested in a decent cause. I wish I had more props to donate”

Lea Thompson: ” I still have my pink dress, from the Prom. And every Halloween my kids try it on and I’m like, no you can actually’t wear that to a party.”

Michael J. Fox: What I wish I had was that freaking guitar. I was so stupid that I didn’t buy that. And that little yellow chiquita, when the amp blows Marty back. I wish I had that, but I don’t. I believe I actually have some shoes, I believe I even have a pair of Nikes that Marty wore. Maybe some other stuff… I’m unsure what I even have, my kids will find it someday.

Christopher Lloyd: ” I’ve got a yellow shirt with trains on it. That’s it.”

Mary Steenburgen: The actress who played Clara kept a tiny pin, from her costume that said Clara on it. But she gave it as a gift to her friend Clara, who took her to determine the Beatles when she was 5, as a thank you.

Huey Lewis: ” I even have nothing, I wish I had kept the glasses that I wore for my little cameo.”

The craziest Back to Future theory they’ve ever heard: Marty gets high.

Robert Zemeckis: I got a choice from a reporter who swore there was a scene where Marty was smoking weed with Marvin Berry and the band. And he said, ” did it is advisable cut that out… did the censors make you narrow that out for the DVD release? Because I know I saw that once I saw the movie inside the theater.” And I said, ” Were you high?” And he said, ” I would were.” So that’s probably that’s one, where people said they saw scenes that never existed.

There’s plenty more footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly, and maybe we’ll see it on the 30th Anniversary DVD

Later on we chatted with BTTF writer, Bob Gale, and he informed us that there’s still plenty more Eric Stoltz footage, but they didn’t release it on the DVD out of respect to the actor. That’s why the special never-before-seen Stoltz footage within the new trilogy pack only has footage, and no dialog. They wanted to include it for fans, but not make a tremendous deal out of the actor switch.

Bob Gale: ” That was our decision, to just soft-peddle it. We didn’t have the desire to make it… [a huge deal]. In ten years, the 35th anniversary, then we’ll put it in.”

Which could all right happen, because Stoltz doesn’t need to approve the footage’s release.

Somewhere, obtainable, there’s a tape of Johnny Depp auditioning for Marty McFly

But we may never see it. Bob Gale didn’t know where it was, but he speculated that it will possibly still exist. Internet, get on this – find that tape!

[image via The Hollywood Reporter photo by Diane Bondareff]

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