A development deal was secured following Zemeckis' success directing Romancing the Stone (1984).
They were desperate for a successful film after numerous collaborative failures, but their idea was rejected over 40 times by studios because it was not considered raunchy enough to compete with the successful comedies of the era. Trapped in the past, Marty inadvertently prevents his future parents' meeting-threatening his existence-and is forced to reconcile the pair and somehow get back to the future.īack to the Future was conceived of in 1980, by Gale and Zemeckis. Set in 1985, the story follows Marty McFly (Fox), a teenager accidentally sent back to 1955 in a time-traveling DeLorean automobile built by his eccentric scientist friend Doctor Emmett 'Doc' Brown (Lloyd). Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover, and Thomas F. Written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, it stars Michael J. Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis.
