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 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