Did you know that in the initial versions of the script for the film “Back to the Future”, there was no lightning striking the city clock. Doc Brown sent young MacFlay at one time with the energy of a nuclear explosion.
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Yes, yes, the famous comedy sci-fi movie was supposed to end in a nuclear explosion. After all, the energy for movement in time was developed initially from a nuclear reaction. And in 1955, Doc did not come up with anything else but to go from Marti to Nevada, to one of the cities where nuclear weapons were tested to assess its impact on buildings, household appliances, and mannequins of people
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Moreover, the storyboard of this scene was already completed, that is, it was ready to go into production. Another goal of the storyboard is to calculate an approximate estimate for the shooting of the episode. So, this final episode with the explosion turned out to be the most expensive in the film and exceeded 1 million dollars. The studio would not allocate such money to Zemeckis and Gale, and they had to rewrite the script, inventing a different, cheaper plot. It was then that the lightning and the clock appeared.
Do you want to know how it would look if the money for an imitation of a nuclear explosion was found? This is possible thanks to the memoirs of screenwriter Bob Gale and the very storyboard from Andrew Probert
So, Doc Brown and Marty are going to Nevada. By tradition, Doc sits in a truck and controls Marty on a walkie-talkie.
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Marty himself goes to the very town in which nuclear weapons are being tested (the idea is actually borrowed from the film “Atomic Child” by Leslie Martinson).
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Marty will have to drive up to Delorian to the test mast, at the top of which a nuclear charge is installed, the operator in the test center will have to undermine it.
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But he saw communist sabotage in the appearance of a time machine at the test site (there was such a time) and moved the tests to a slightly earlier date.
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Will Marty have time to accelerate to 88 miles per hour by the time of the explosion ?!
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In that version of the script, each time it travels, static electricity causes hair to stand on end. When Marty emerges in 1985, a tourist attraction is located at the site of the landfill. And his return observes groups of tourists with very original hairstyles.
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This is how a famous film could end if the creators had more money.
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