“This was before Michael Eisner went in and reinvented ,” Gale told CNN. After hearing “take it to Disney” enough times, Gale and director Robert Zemeckis decided to do just that. Ironically, whereas other major studios saw Back to the Future as a sweet, family-friendly picture that would make a perfect fit for Disney, the Mouse House’s executives thought otherwise. Disney’s studio executives thought Back to the Future was too raunchy. It's too nice, we want something raunchier like Porky's. We also got, ‘There's a lot of sweetness to this. It was ‘Well, this is time travel, and those movies don't make any money.’ We got that a lot. We'd go back when they changed management. “The script was rejected over 40 times by every major studio and by some more than once. As screenwriter Bob Gale told CNN in 2010: The Back to the Future script was rejected more than 40 times.īack to the Future may be considered a contemporary classic today, but the initial response to the script hardly predicted how big of a hit it would become. In celebration of the film’s 35th anniversary, here are a few things you might not have known about Marty, Doc, and Doc's pet chimpanzee.
Fox created a time travel movie for a whole new generation when he hopped inside a tricked-out DeLorean and zoomed back in the time-with a little help from some stolen plutonium-to ensure his future existence.
