“Back to the Future” was inspired by the idea of traveling back in time to meet your parents when they were just teenagers. You can see a version of the movie every day on the Maury Povich show where young kids have kids and take DNA tests with their kids watching. “Back to the Future” was a pioneer in this field, a top box-office smash that has staying power. But there are 10 surprising things about “Back to the Future” that are most surprising.
10. Eric Stoltz was cast as Marty McFly but was fired when he refused to take off his makeup from the movie “Mask”
9. Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus did all of Michael J. Fox’s singing in the movie
8. The DeLorean wasn’t the first choice to be the time machine. The Yugo GV was the original car but the scenes didn’t work well with Marty and Doc Brown both pushing the car from behind to get it up to 88 miles per hour
7. When Marty is trying to re-start the DeLorean as he prepares to return to 1985, the car’s headlights flash the Morse Code for “Crispin Glover is a nut job”
6. In the original script, Marty goes back to 1955 and discovers his father George McFly is not only a peeping Tom but he’s also way into ass play
5. The “Enchantment Under the Sea Dance” was originally called “An Evening of Dancing and Date Rape”
4. In an earlier draft, the Libyans arrive at the mall parking lot but make a brief stop to go into Spencer’s Gifts to buy some dirty board games
3. Plans for a new sequel would have Marty go back and destroy every single copy of “Back to the Future III”
2. Deleted scene predicted the internet site Craigslist.com would be created to make it easy to find hookers
1. In the original script, Lorraine’s character gets impregnated by Marty and they have the freakiest looking baby in the world who grows up to become a prop comic
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