Afterwards, he would retire to the Sheraton Universal Hotel for the night. He would oversee the reels completed that day and make changes.
Zemeckis would wrap photography for the day and board a private plane to Burbank. While he shot the train sequences in Sonora, Writer and Producer Bob Gale was in LA supervising the final dub of Part II. Shooting BTTF parts II and III back-to-back was exhausting for Zemeckis. Robert Zemeckis was given the idea of setting Back To The Future III in the old west by Michael J Fox when the director asked him, while shooting the first movie, what time period he'd most like to visit. The film crew didn't realise, they just thought it was superb acting. When filming the scene where Marty is hanged from the court house by Mad Dog, Michael J Fox was accidentally genuinely hanged to the point of passing out.
The embroidery on Marty's outfit includes two symbols for atomic energy, on the upper chest, by the shoulders. So why not browse our 20 things you (probably) didn't know about the third instalment to kill all of, oooh, 10 minutes.ĬHECK OUT 15 THINGS YOU PROBABLY DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT BACK TO THE FUTURE II Whichever of the two you'd prefer to get your mitts on, you're in for a bit of a wait. If the Back To The Future trilogy is to be taken as historically accurate, which of course only a truly insane person would do, we are at most 20 months away from the invention of the hoverboard.Įxciting stuff, but small fish compared to Doc Brown's eventual invention of a flying, time-travelling train that "runs on steam", as seen in Back To The Future Part III.