Back to the Future

The original script was very different to what we see in the movie
The movie flows so well that it’s almost difficult to imagine it wasn’t written in one draft, but there were lots of changes throughout the writing process. Some of the key amends were:

• Marty’s surname was, originally, not McFly, but McDermott.

• The famous clocktower climax to the movie wasn’t part of the script. Instead, Marty and Doc would visit a nuclear test site in Nevada and a nuclear explosion would send the De-Lorean back to the future. This was changed because the whole sequence would have proved too expensive.

• The final scene originally didn’t play out how it does in the film, with Doc turning back up at Marty’s house and taking him and Jennifer on another adventure. It originally ended with George looking at a 1955 newspaper with a picture of Marty playing Johnny B. Goode on stage, and saying, “It can’t be. But it is…”