Great Scott! This classic could’ve featured a chimp, a suicidal teen, and a time-traveling refrigerator.
The script was rejected over 40 times and by every studio.
In the early '80s, following the success of Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Porky's, most studios were looking for raunchier teen comedies, while Disney thought the storyline of a mother falling in love with her son was too inappropriate.
Via news.com.au
Bob Gale, who co-wrote the script, was inspired to write the story after seeing his father's high school yearbook while visiting him.
According to Gale — who also went to the same high school as his father — the yearbook made him think about whether or not they would've been friends had they gone to high school together.
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In the original script the time machine was NOT the iconic DeLorean, but rather a refrigerator.
The idea to use a refrigerator was changed after the film's director Robert Zemeckis and producer Steven Spielberg thought kids might copy the idea and crawl inside fridges.
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In the refrigerator version of the script, Marty McFly, in a rather dark turn, accidentally time-travels while attempting suicide.
In that script, Marty was so upset about how things were going in his life that he attempts suicide by climbing into the time machine, thinking it would electrocute him to death. According to Gale, they realized that they couldn't have a main character who tried to kill himself.
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