Co-creator Bob Gale and director Robert Zemeckis have often spoken about the 40 times that Back to the Future was infamously rejected before Universal Studios greenlit it. Ironically, it was Steven Spielberg who had been the only one who wanted to make it, and in the end, it was his company, Amblin Entertainment, that produced it.
"'This is really a very nice and sweet movie, and we’re looking for stuff more like Porky’s and Stripes and raunchier comedies,'" Gale claimed he heard repeatedly. However, when they took the film to Disney, they got a very different response.
The Six-Week Blunder and Late-Night Hustle
The other well-known issue the film ran into was having to fire the lead. While Fox was their first choice for Marty McFly, his Family Ties schedule meant he wasn't available. They hired Eric Stoltz instead, but after six weeks of shooting, they realized it wasn't working out. Family Ties' producers finally agreed to Fox taking the role, but he could only film after the TV series finished for the day. This meant they only had him from 6 p.m. until around 2 p.m.
Despite facing 40 rejections, being deemed both "too sweet" for mainstream studios and "too scandalous" for Disney, and enduring a grueling, sleep-deprived lead actor swap, the filmmakers' persistence paid off. The chaotic production didn't hinder the movie; instead, it forged a defining 1980s masterpiece that cemented its place in cinematic history.
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