Back to the Future (franchise) Back to the Future (franchise) The "Back to the Future" franchise is an American science fiction–adventure comedy film series written and directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Bob Gale and Neil Canton for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and distributed by Universal Pictures. The franchise follows the adventures of a high school student, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox), and an eccentric scientist, Dr. Emmett L. Brown (Christopher Lloyd), as they use a DeLorean time machine to time travel to different periods in the history of Hill Valley, California. The first film was the highest-grossing film of 1985 and became an international
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