Ok so some of the points discussed about this trilogy I am not 100% sure about, but wanted to try and clarify the ones I am pretty sure about. I'm a bit of a Back to the Future nerd (have not bought the blu ray triology yet but have the DVD triology anniversary edition with zemekis and gale doing new commentary). Anywho a few movie points that I wanted to clarify:
The end of the second movie has a "To Be Concluded" thing because the second and third movies were done together- at Universal's request. I didn't think the third movie had a to be continued thing but I'm not sure- so i can't say either way. Now about the way the first movie ended:
According to the director commentary (from 10 years later or whenever it was anniversery'd) they wrote just the first movie initially and wanted to make a joke/dig at all the sequels and such so they put in the future stuff as a big joke- and I thought the "to be continued" was in the movie as a joke as well. Then when the movie did so well in theaters and sold so well Universal came back to them and basically put them on the spot about a sequel. In the commentary they basically say they had no intentions of making sequel(s) but Universal wanted them to and the movie was so successful they wrote the rest of the trilogy, using the joke story from the end of the first as the plot of the rest of the trilogy.
So that is all I had to add- also that Crispin Glover is only in the first movie because he asked for a shit-ton of money and Zemekis and Gale didn't think he was one of the more important characters.
Back to the Future
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