Back to the Future Part II Back to the Future Part II Back to the Future Part II is a 1989 American science fiction film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Bob Gale. It is the sequel to the 1985 film "Back to the Future" and the second installment in the "Back to the Future" trilogy. The film stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Thomas F. Wilson, and Lea Thompson. In the plot, Marty McFly (Fox) and his friend Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown (Lloyd) travel to 2015, where bully Biff Tannen (Wilson) steals Doc's DeLorean time machine and uses it to alter history for the
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