Back To The Future Part 1 & 2 Synced..

I remember cutting the milk bar, cafe 80's and saloon scenes together at collage as an editing project. It really showed off the brilliant repetition of these films. This is going one step beyond, I must admit I have thought about doing this. Brilliant.

Back to the set...

Collection of 1955/1985 photos form the Back To The Future set...

Doc, where are you?

New Back To Te Future Game goes on the market this month...

Sure it'll be brilliant, but I have to say, with all the amazing hyper real texturing and CG moeling that goes into games these days, this looks a little flat...

Third time's a charm...

Remember Back to the Future Part 2? Remember the confusing alternative 1985? Remember The Biff Tannen Museum? Check this out...

BTTF.com has got their hands on this exclusive never-before-scene clip of the full 3 and a half minute video bio for Biff Tannen seen briefly in Back To The Future 2.

The VHS tape was obtained through a fan that had family connections to the production of the Back To The Future films. This clip above does not appear on any official Back To The Future release! Cool! (Original post found on Doobybrain.com)

Power Laces! Alright...

Back to the Fox...

This is an awesome teaser remake, Fox is still the king of the cool teens.

Heavy...

As you all know, Back to the Future is doing the rounds at your local flee pit on it's 25 year anniversary. What you may not know is that it could have been a very different film and in a alternate 1985 it kinda was. Aside from a very different original script involving a fridge and an H-bomb - See Indy 4 - Marty McFly was gonna be played by Eric Stoltz. I remember reading this in one of my many BTTF annuals when I was a kid - but seeing Stoltz as Mcfly in this clip if pretty cool.

Back to the Judgement Day...

Want...

Great Scott...

Brilliant C4 promo for the Great British Food Fight starting soon. Check the Delorean/Back to the Future homage. Bad ass.

If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits eighty-eight miles per hour... you're gonna see some serious shit...

Just spent a muddy few days on the Isle of Wight at the brilliant Bestival. Loads of great stuff; old music, new music and of course dressing up. We were lucky enough to catch the outstanding Neon Neon - Super Furry Animals front man Gruff Rhys' electro-pop collaborative project with Boom Bip - a concept album outlining the life and times of John Z. Delorean. My love affair with Delorean's over stylized DMC 12 and it's roots in my Back to the Future childhood makes me a little bias, but the Neon Neon project is very good. I feel they have portrayed Delorean's life and sour times in a great album with some fantastic tracks.

I realize this is not a music blog, however, Neon Neon's ending performance at Bestival was a feast of fantastic visuals. Each song had a style and it's own set of Delorean archive - from images of Raquel Welch and the DMC 12 production line to Michael Douglas looking 80's and cool. They had also commissioned some slick looking GFX of the car and some bonkers shapes. I manged to find copies of some of them on YouTube.

As well as all this they have a couple of music videos to accompany the album. "I Told Her on Aldaraan/Trick for Treat" and "I Lust U". They are highly produced slick films, great visuals and some good visual narratives. "Aldaraan/Treat" features a John Delorean lookalike and some good Star Wars references where as "Lust" tells the story of a man and his pet jellyfish that dances and lights up. I am finding it difficult to find out the directors or production houses, I'm sure they will come to light soon as Neon Neon finds more followers.

The detail/pornographic shots of the DMC12 are one of the best parts of the videos for me. Impeccably lit, capturing the sleek stainless steel body and over-styled lines of a beautiful and ultimately flawed machine. Delorean's lasting legacy and reminding us of his ultimate driving dream.

Revenge of the Nerds II...

Whilst whining on about the recycling of script ideas the other day - I forgot to mention that in the original script for Back to the Future; 'Einstein' - Doc's scruffy counterpart was written as a monkey. Described as an Organ Grinder Monkey called Shemp.
Thank the maker they rewrote that one.
Could have been quite a different movie.
Also dogs are far more intelligent.

Those nerds are a threat to our way of life...

Whilst languishing in the Doghouse chewing on my bone, I've been reading scripts. Old, new, sold, unsold, different drafts - check the Good Smells... for links.

I find the development of an idea from conception to realization very interesting and to read the first draft of a film that has been released is quite insightful. What goes and what stays and how a director, crew and actors have interpreted the text.

In some cases you can also see ideas being recycled and moved from project to project.
For example in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull there is a scene where Indy escapes from a nuclear blast in a lead lined fridge. As unbelievable as this gag is, it looks like it might just be a recycled idea from the original draft of Back to the Future by Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale back in 1981, also produced by Frank Marshall and Steven Spielberg.

In the original script; to generate time travel Doc Brown uses direct nuclear power, not electricity - and in 1955 the only nuclear source is at a military testing base - starting to sound familiar? Lead lining of the fridge protects Marty and he is sent back to the future.

Director Robert Zemeckis said in an interview that the idea was scrapped because he and Steven Spielberg did not want children to start climbing into refrigerators and getting trapped inside.

I wonder.