Nerdy Fact of the Day: Back To The Future

Disney rejected the script for Back to the Future because of the incestuous storyline involving Marty McFly’s mother falling in love with him.

Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty (when the producers’ first choice Michael J. Fox was unavailable due to filming commitments on his TV show,Family Ties). He filmed five weeks worth of footage before he was let go and replaced with Fox, who the producers were able to get after working out a deal with the Family Ties producers.

Doc Brown was originally supposed to have a pet chimpanzee, not a dog.

The iconic DeLorean time machine was originally envisioned as a time travel chamber that resembled a refrigerator.

In Ronald Reagan’s 1986 State of the Union Address, he quoted the classic last lines from the film, “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”