Back to the Future Back to the Future Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. It stars Michael J. Fox as teenager Marty McFly, who accidentally travels back in time to 1955, where he meets his future parents and becomes his mother's romantic interest. Christopher Lloyd portrays the eccentric scientist Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown, inventor of the time-traveling DeLorean, who helps Marty repair history and return to 1985. Zemeckis and Gale wrote the script after Gale wondered whether he would have befriended his father if they had attended school
Back to the Future Part III film played to a more materialistic idea of success, Zemeckis considered "Part III" more of a "human journey" with spiritual overtones. The shooting of the "Back to the Future" sequels, which were shot back-to-back throughout 1989, reunited much of the crew of the original. The films were shot over the course of 11 months, save for a three-week hiatus between filming of "Parts II" and "III". The most grueling part was editing "Part II" while filming "Part III", and Zemeckis bore the brunt of the process over a three-week period. While Zemeckis was shooting most of the train sequences in