Back to the Future: The Ride heavily from the original. Following the events of "Back to the Future Part III", Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown moves to the present time in Hill Valley where, in 1991, he founded the Institute of Future Technology, a scientific institute specializing in his "futuristic" inventions. On May 2, 1991, he invites tourists into the facility as "volunteers" in order to test out his newest invention, the eight-passenger DeLorean time machine, by traveling one day into the future. Meanwhile, Doc travels to 2015 in the original DeLorean (a new time machine being built out of another DeLorean) to make sure the space
Back to the Future to see if any other of the major studios wanted a piece of us." Every major film studio rejected the script for the next four years, while "Back to the Future" went through two more drafts. During the early 1980s, popular teen comedies (such as "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Porky's") were risqué and adult-aimed, so the script was rejected for being too light. Gale and Zemeckis finally pitched "Back to the Future" to Disney, but they felt the story of a mother falling in love with her son was not appropriate for a family film under the Disney