When Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale filmed the first film "Back to the Future," no one thought about the sequel. Zemeckis believed that the sequels contradict the very idea of the film. The flying car at the end was just a joke. But the fact that the sequel to be, became clear after the US president mentioned the film and said a direct quote from him: "Where we go, we do not need roads"
But Zemeckis still had doubts. They did not have a ready story, for the next film, they were linked by other projects. And in general, he doubted the sequels, which were "not a matter of art, but a question of fees"
But seeing that the position of the studio was "Do you want to participate or not, but we will still withdraw the continuation," Zemeckis and Gail, agreed. In detail the story of why Robert Zemeckis took off "Back to the Future II" I already told you
Now let's find out how the idea of the third film appeared. This story is directly related to the creation of the second part.
So, the main condition for the start of work on the sequel Zemeckis and Gail was called - the indispensable participation of Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. If the actors refused, the filmmakers would also come out of the project, giving "Universal" the opportunity to develop it without them.
When the actors agreed, the shooting of the sequel began officially. May 22, 1986 "Universal" released "Back to the Future" on video cassettes, and before the final credits appeared an inscription made in the familiar red-yellow font: "To be continued ...".
Before starting to work on the script, Bobs wanted to understand which of the former participants "Back to the Future" would like to star in the second film. The first to call Leah Thompson (Lorraine). She agreed. Tom Wilson (Beef)? Certainly. Crispin Glover (George)? And here there were difficulties. His requests were too high - the fee, compared with the first film, was to grow more than ten times, not counting the various bonuses.
But the threat to film a sequel without Glover did not mean that George would not be in the script. Just in the first scenario, which because of the employment of Zemeckis Gail almost completely wrote one, George's role was much less than in the first film.
The beginning of this first version of the continuation script, which got the working title "Second number", is very similar to what we will see on the screen: Marty and Doc are sent to the future, Biff steals "Gray's Sporting Almanac", the course of history changes, and our heroes it is necessary to correct it. But the continuation of the original version of the script was not at all like later. Instead of returning back in 1955, Biff decides that it would be cool to see the sixties, and leaves in 1967. All the major adventures take place in the era when George McFly, who is teaching in college, leaves for California to give a lecture at the University of Berkeley, and thus is absent for much of the script, and Lorraine becomes a hippie.
It was not yet clear whether Crispin Glover would return - the Beans doubted this, but kept the opportunity for negotiations in case the actor and his representatives were ready for a normal conversation - but one thing was now secured: if the actor were to participate, then he will play the fool. Gail decided to build a story around those actors who were available. Therefore, in an alternative scenario in 1985 George died.
Zemeckis liked Gale's script, but he offered to think again about improving the plot. "You know? We are in a completely unique situation, we are able to remove the sequel of the story, in the center of which is a journey through time, and we can actually do what our public really wants to see, that is, to go back and reconsider the film they just seen. " And two Boba-Gale and Zemeckis-sat down to rework the script, which they called the "Paradox." The new script on 165 pages began in the same way as the first version, but its second part was a large-scale return to the first film.
And after the hundredth page, the third part of the adventure was added, in which Doc Brown, due to a lightning strike in DeLorean, was accidentally sent from 1955 to the Wild West,
there was a new love line, as Doc fell in love with a teacher named Clara Clayton, and a new villain named Byuford Tannen, a distant relative of Tom Wilson's character from the first film, who at that moment was called "Black Biff", and not "Mad Dog" , as in the final version.
True, this third part was too crumpled. And introduced into the world of Marty at this late stage of the plot's development, the new heroes did not combine with everything else. When Bob Gale re-read the text of the expanded story in search of possible abbreviations, he suddenly had a vague feeling that, working on the script of one sequel, he actually developed the material, which would be enough for two. A more detailed development of the plot of 1885 led to the fact that the script increased by another third and the film had to go for more than 3 hours, and the cost of the cost of shooting it had to exceed $ 120 million - more than two sequels of the "Star Wars" together . "Universal" could not approve this scenario. Gale began to persuade Zemeckis and the rest of the producers to seek more than one sequel, and two.
Steve Spielberg managed to persuade the studio management to shoot two films at once. He presented everything in this light - if the second film proves successful, then maybe it is worthwhile to prepare another picture in advance, instead of collecting all the actors for the third part in two or three years? Fox and Lloyd are happy to sign a contract for two films. Leia Thompson and Tom Wilson so wanted to work with Zemeckis and Gale again that they would most likely happily take the opportunity to stay longer Lorraine and Biff. Both films could be shot sequentially and completed the installation of the third part, when the second will still be in the cinemas. Shainberg realized that this idea has potential.
As a result, in late January 1989, it was decided to break the "Paradox" into two parts
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Photos were taken from the filming of films "Back to the Future 2" and "Back to the Future 3", dir. Robert Zemeckis, Universal Pictures and fragments of the book by Casin Gaines "We Do not Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy"
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