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... Back To The Future had been my favorite circumventing thirty years, Marty did not movie prior to the release of Back To The live them and could not possibly have gotten Future Part 11 I immediately became addic­ married. So his children could only exist as a ted to Part II and saw it 28 times prior to its concept or ghost, if anything. In the reality of removal from all the local theaters in early his "original" timeline, Marty and his girl­ March. I am now suffering withdrawal symp­ friend would have vanished from Hill Valley. toms and anxiously await its release on They would have been searched for and Home Video. never found. Meanwhile, nerdy Biff of 1985 would probably hesitate about mentioning Mark Crane the flying car he had seen. Safety Harbor, FL But in spite of this possible criticism, I'm .. .1 just received your issue# 1 official collec­ always willing to give my favorite filmmak­ tors magazine in the mail. I would like to ers the benefit of the doubt. When non-fans thank everyone who worked on the maga­ raise these questions, I'll insist that there is a zine. I loved every part of it. I thought the supernatural subplot or something. But be­ movie was great. The Back To The Future tween you and me, I wish Doc had spoken to trilogy will be up there with the Star Wars middle-aged Marty, found out about the gui­ trilogy! tar or hand accident, and then returned to correct things at that point. Alan Brunette Chula Vista, CA William La Rochelle Ontario, Canada .. .In 1984, I sat in math class totally unabsorbed in Back To The Future Part II is released, I've seen it the fractions and the teacher who stood before me. three times ... thanks for bringing the two best time­ .. .I have just received my copy of the Back To The In 7th grade, numbers just couldn't hold my atten­ travel movies since It's A Wonderful Life to the old Future Fan Club Magazine and I must say it was tion, so I drifted .. .l wondered what it would be like if silver screen, and one near me as well. I can't wait till more than I expected! The greatest thrill for me was my future self, say 1998 (this was 84 so that'd be a Part III is released. Maybe I ought to see it four the official merchandise section and the merchan­ stretch), were to time travel to the past, say 1984, times, break a chain! dise greatly appealed to me. The Back To The and without my 1984 self knowing it, my 1998 self Future Part II watch designs were impressive and would be totally screwing up my 1984 life. Okay, Kenneth Hough the advance one sheets even more so (I paid $50 for okay, I know, real deep but for 12 going on 13 it was Minot,ND both of mine) but most of the fans and convention­ a stretch. Summer, 1985, Back To The Future is ... I've seen Back To The Future Part II five times goers I've met and spoken with are all looking for released. I see it three times in the theater, a first for now and it has to be one of the best films I've seen! the same two things: 1) The denim jacket Marty me since Star Wars; one of the all time best, most From the beginning where Doc and Marty travel to wore in the first film, which is gray with blue high­ entertaining movies I've seen. November, 1989, 20 I 5 all the way through the altered 1985 and back lights. 2) Marty's 2015 Nike Hi-Tops, dubbed "Air to 1955, this film had me interested all the way McFly" by more than one fan. There are conflicting through. I couldn't believe how fast it moved - the reports from Footlocker personnel that Nike is end came before I even knew it. I loved Marty's indeed producing this shoe but are working on low­ futuristic family and especially his daughter - ering the cost to the consumer somehow. I have also ~~~~ Michael, you make an attractive female! The special been told that there rna y be two versions of the shoe effects were outstanding and, as with the first film, (one battery-operated, one not) perhaps that is the there were so many things to see and hear in this film "lower cost alternative." you have to go back and see it several times to catch Craig Bard 1J!J!1~ J/1/Jl/J{iA NCLZJ(> it all. My compliments to the filmmakers on a job Bridgeton, NJ well done. I'm looking forward to Marty and Doc's Official Magazine #2 wild west adventure in Part III! Thanks for a great Think About It Spring 1990 fan club! ...Suppose you and I are sitting alone in a room. A minute goes by, and I happen to discover a time President & Publisher - Dan Madsen Sally Myers machine. I get into it and go back one minute in time Associate Editor- John S. Davis Orlando, FL Director of Marketing- Robert Allan to now. So, you and two of me and a time machine Typography - Terry Zugates .. .I love Back To The Future, and have joined this are in the room. A minute goes by, and both of me Proofreader- Susan Mulvihill club mainly because the films are so well-written. As get into the time machine and go back in time one Photographer - Mark Streed an aspiring writer myself, I appreciate seeing an minute to now. So, you and four of me and a time efficiently told story. Now that you know my heart is machine are in the room. A minute goes by, and the Fan Club Address- PO Box 111000, Aurora, in the right place, I'd like to comment on something four of me do that again. A minute goes by, and the C080011 USA Bob Gale said in his interview. He claimed, "Our eight of me do that again. And again. And again. Contributors This Issue - Nancy Cushing­ time machine doesn't travel through space- it only And again. So, you and I are sitting alone in a room, Jones, John Hornick, Sid Kaufman, Michael travels through time ... " I'm no expert in the space­ when suddenly. ..a hundred billion me's and a time Klastorin & Thomas F. Wilson. time continuum, but Piers Anthony's book Bearing machine appear! A minute goes by, and they all An Hourglass, from his Incarnations oflmmortality instantly disappear - except for you and me! Issue #2, Spring 1990. Back To 17re Future Fan Club series points out that the Earth's rotation must be Magazine is publ ished quarterly for $9.95 per year by Charlotte Fullerton Fan Clubs, Inc., 537 Olathe St., Suite C, Aurora, Colo­ compensated for. The DeLorean therefore must Haverhili, MA rado 800 II USA. Second-class postage pending at adjust itself accordingly, only appearing to be "in the Aurora, Colorado. POSTMASTER: Send address same place," otherwise Doc and Marty might have changes to Back To The Future Fan Club, PO Box ended up on the moon or in the center of the Earth. Box -Office Report 111000, Aurora, Colorado 800 II. Back To 17re Future On the other hand, I was relieved to hear Mr. Back To The Future Part JI, to date, r.<~~;;::-.(Ji) Part IJTM and ~ 1989 Universal City Studios, Inc. and Gale state that Marty's children, "Don't really exist." has grossed over $307 million world­ Amblin. All Rights Reserved. Licensed by Merchandis­ The idea of Marty and Jennifer meeting their older wide making it one of the most M'l':t-~rl~f.:il"":"-:1 ing Corporation of America, Inc. Printed in the USA. selves bothered me a bit. It is not the same as visiting su=sful mms of all time. The Reprint or reproduction in part or in whole is strictly Back To 17re Future film­ forbidden. Subscription rates - $9.95-US, $12.00. people of the past, whose existence has already been makers have high hopes that Canada, $2 1.95-Foreign for one year. Single copies of woven into the fabric of time. Even when Marty Part Ill, which opens May 25th, watched himself escape the Lybians at Lone Pine will bring moviegoers back to the the latest issue are available for $3.00 ppd. Rates are theaters to see the final chapter in the subject to change without notice. Mall, an established event was merely .playing itself time-travel trilogy. out. Naturally, in Back To The Future Part II, by WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR By John S. Davis the better. So our original time-line changes from reality to probability and our probabil­ o you ever wonder what's going ity is now the reality. In essence, that original to happen in Back to the Future time-line never really happened. In fact, D Part III? We know it's a western. Marty is the only person with any memories The preview makes that clear enough. But of that previous reality. Yes, it existed, at one beyond that, the story is very top secret, and time, but not anymore. only the people involved in making the film Marty's new and improved future doesn't know what it's all about. Still, if you watched last long, though. By the next day, Doc and listened closely, you may have picked Brown returns from 2015, insisting Marty up on a few clues that the filmmakers left go back to the future with him in an attempt behind to pique our curiosity. Although we to save his family from being destroyed. can't construct the full story from these Their plan doesn't go exactly the way they clues, we can, with a little deductive reason­ intended, but they do, nevertheless, prevent ing, make some good educated guesses. But Marty junior from making a big mistake. to do that properly, we should go back to The point at which things begin to go 1985 and retrace the events that caused time awry is when the police find Jennifer in the to be irrevocably skewed. ally and decide to take her home. Doc and You'll recall that during a Libyan terrorist Marty discuss the potential problems should attack, Doc Brown is apparently killed and Jennifer meet her future self, and decide they Marty hops into the DeLorean to escape. must rescue her before anything like that can Unfortunately, he gets the car up to 88 miles happen. But, of course, Old Biff overhears per hour and puts thirty years between him­ With a little help from Western Union, self and the terrorists. Marty discovers Doc Brown is alive So now Marty is in 1955 and inadvert­ and well and living in 1885. But how ently changes the manner in which his par­ does Marty travel back to the old ents originally met, jeopardizing his own west? Why, with the DeLorean that future existence. But with the help of the Doc Hid in a cave so Marty could fmd it 70 years later, of course! 1955 version of Doc Brown, Marty success­ fully manages to get his parents together, would have been trapped in the and, in so doing, changes his own future. His future. No time machine, no time father, George McFiy, has gained the confi­ travel. dence to stand up for himself and is now a It is possible that something in writer. And Doc Brown, we discover, sur­ Back to the Future Part III may vives the terrorist attack with a little help explain this blooper. So let's just from Marty back in 1955. speculate. Okay, so now a new time-line has been When Biff returns to the future, created due to Marty's trip to the past. It after stealing the DeLorean, he trys hasn't changed much, just enough to make this conversation, as well as the one about to get out of the car too quickly and breaks Marty's new 1985 a little brighter. the sports almanac, and devises a plan of his off the handle of his cane. At this point he But what happens to the original time­ own. Biff follows Doc and Marty, and when seems to be in pain. At first we may think line, the one that existed before any time they are away from the DeLorean for a few that his pain is due to getting hit by the cane traveling ever took place? Some people minutes, he takes a trip back to 1955 to give as it breaks, but didn't he seem to be in a lot would say it still exists as an alternate reality, the sports almanac to himself and returns to more pain than the cane could have inflicted? but this really isn't the case at all. In truth, 2015. There's a blooper in Biffs time travel­ He could barely walk, he was gasping for due to Marty's tinkering, the original time­ ing, however. breath, and he was clutching his stomach. line has ceased to exist from 1955 onward After Biff gives himself the almanac, a What could have happened to him? We saw and has been replaced by a new time-line. new time-line is created, one in which he is what he did in 1955, nothing of which could Think of it this way: there are a variety of rich and powerful. But when he goes back to have caused him any kind of distress. So the different paths a person's life can take and the future it is the future he left, rather than question is, did he travel to some other time these paths are determined by the choices we his own rich and powerful future as it should before coming back to the future? Appar­ make throughout life. For George McFiy, be. Remember, Doc tells Marty later that ently he must have. But where did he go? there are several probable futures: the one they can't go to 2015 and prevent Biff from 1885 perhaps? that originally occurred, the one in which he taking the almanac back in time, because Why would Biff travel back to the old has no backbone, and one in which he learns that original future time-line no longer exists. west? That's impossible to answer at this to stand up for himself. When George knocks If this little bit of time traveling had been point. But consider this. In Back to the Biff out in 1955, his life begins to change for done properly, Doc, Marty, and Jennifer (Continued on Page 9) -1- EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW THOMAS F. WILSON Back ToBiff By Dan Madsen

lthough Thomas F. Wilson went and continues, through severaJ physical trans­ when his A fonnations to play four different schedule variations of Marty McFiy's arch neme­ permits, to sis, BiffTannen, in Back To The Future perform PartH, the actor claims the underlying stand-up persona of the character was a constant. comedy. "'w.tipum­ "Biff is still the same jerky guy we first Wilson, meled mer­ cilously by saw in the SO's." Biffs through­ In addition to his portrayal as Biff's out my forma­ future grandson, Griff, in Back To The tive years," says Wilson. "It is die Future Part H, moviegoers will soon most ultimate see his continuation ofthe role ofBiff, irony that now my as well as introducing one of Biff's most famous role is ancestor's, Buford "Mad Dog" Tan­ his wife that of a bully." nen, in the upcoming Back To The Caroline and Future Part /H. their two daughters re- Born in Philadelphia, Wilson stu­ side in Southern California. died international politics at Arizona Gaining national attention by State University before turning his playing a character like Biff, who, attentions toward performing with a in the actor's own words is stint in summer stock at Villanova "genetic waste," Wilson takes it University. The actor began his career all in stride. "It has always been as a stand-up comic, performing on a dream of mine," notes the "open mike" nights in comedy clubs actor, "to be universally de­ in Philadelphia and New Jersey. As spised by the American movie­ his act became more polished, Wilson going public!" began to earn a modest income as a The Official Back To The comedian, and soon found himself Future Fan Club recently spoke performing in clubs in Baltimore, with Tom on his experiences as Washington D.C. and New York. the villain in the trilogy of popu­ While in Manhattan, Wilson also lar films. attended the American Academy of Tom, how did you become interested Dramatic Arts. backyard to put on a show for kids. But in the acting profession? when I really got seriously interested in Wilson moved to Hollywood in acting was in high school, and that was 1981, and again found himself in front I was presi d~nt of the debate team in when I began toying with the idea of of audiences in comedy clubs such as high school and I played the tuba in the doing it professionally. the Comedy Store, the Improvisation band. So I wasn't cutting any kind of and Comic Strip, sometimes doubling macho figure in the hallways at school. Do you recall how you were cast for as the club's bouncer. After appearing But the teacher advisor of the debate the original Back To The Future? in a number of commercials and epi­ team was also the teacher of theatre arts sodic television shows, Wilson was in our high school and he got me inter­ I had done lots of theatre and a number cast as Biff in Back To The Future. ested in performing in plays. Of course, of television commercials as well as Since then, the actor has starred in my parents say I was a ham from very guest-starring spots on television shows. April Fool's Day and in the features early on. I was always that guy who was But, auditioning for a big part in a Action Jackson and Let's Get Harry, putting chairs in a semi-circle in the Steven Spielberg-produced movie was -2- Do you recall your first I think Back To The Future is a day on the set of the classic. I think it and E. T. are probably first film? the classic films of the 80's. A lot of movies that are big blockbusters come The very first day, all and go, but nothing has galvanized I remember is my everybody's thought process like Back trying incredibly to To The Future. They love the movie, stay out of people's they remember it, and they remember ways and to listen certain parts vividly. It was really a to what was told heartwarming film that entire families to me, and to love. People come up to me all the time do as good of a and say, "We own the video, our kids job as I could. watch it every weekend, and they have The first scene memorized it!" that I shot Do you get recognized very often as was in the Biff? 50's cafe where I'm Biffbecame really famous in that movie knocking and especially his manner of speech. "I think the on Cris- America really grabbed on to all the third movie those phrases he used. You know, like was the most fun to film be­ calling people a "butthead!" (Laugh­ cause ofall the ter) Yes, that originated with Biff! I cowboy stuff," take full credit for the term "butthead". says Wilson, seen here as Rift's being used in the schools across Amer­ great, great grand­ ica! Other phrases have become popu­ father, Buford pin Glover's head. I was lar, too, like "Make like a tree and get "Mad Dog" Tan­ nen. very excited to be there but I outta here!" and "Hello, anybody was, of course, very nervous be­ home?!" So people really latched onto cause, of all the years of pre­ the Biff character because he's such a paration and acting I had done, jerk! (Laughter) In my real life, I look a nothing had prepared me to be lot different than I look as Biff. People one of the leading characters in a do recognize me , though. Kids recog­ huge movie like Back To The nize me easier for some reason. Adults Future. usually think I went to high school with them in Montana! But kids recognize Certainly you weren't prepared me more often. for the success the film achieved. How would you describe the charac­ I don't think anybody really had ter ofBiff? even an inkling that it would have Biff is basically a bully who has ob­ the kind of success it had. You viously lost a couple of brain cells know, Back To The Future was a either in the operating room at his birth film that had its share of speed or along the way somewhere. But Biff is bumps during production - it also, I think, an evil character. Biff has wasn't all smooth sailing. My first aspects of evil that I tried to put into the an incredible thing. I went up for a day on the set of Back To The Future I performance that I think might have reading. It wasn't a cattle-call but there wasn't working with Michael J. Fox. I been lacking in other portrayals of bul­ were a number of people up for the was working with Eric Stoltz in the part. I auditioned my way to the top role of Marty McFly. Of course, after lies. It's natural to think of bullies as and after 7 or 8 readings, there I was at several weeks of shooting, they let Eric buffoons and stupid and always losing Amblin Entertainment auditioning for go and hired Michael because they just to the good guy. But there are aspects of a conference table full of guys includ­ didn't feel Eric was right for the part. bullies that aren't buffoon-like and ing Steven Spielberg, Bob Zemeckis So the film had its ups and downs. aren't very funny which gives the char­ and Bob Gale and other giants of show When the release date got closer, acter more texture. What it boils down business. It was very nerve-racking! It though, we started hearing these little to is that bullies enjoy what they do. was possi bly the most nervous time hints that it was a really good movie. They like making people very unhappy, I've ever had auditioning for some­ Then the press started picking up on they like scaring kids, which, at its very thing. It was just so big! I was truly that and that was when all the success root, is a bad, bad thing. There are also shocked when I got the role. we had dreamed about became a reality. many aspects to Biff which aren't very - 3 - funny at all and, thinks of himself as a moron when he in fact, could be was younger. But as an old man Biffhas described as evil. calmed quite a bit. So is there any Which film in the series is your favor­ good in Biff? ite?

I don't see any Well, they're so different that I really good in Biff. A lot don't have a favorite - I like both of them of people ask me for different reasons. They are much that question because, as an actor, like the first and second acts of a play. I you're supposed to find those aspects of think Part One is excellent in its heart­ the character for yourself that are lika­ warming nature. It sets up the Marty ble so that you can love the character McFly character you're playing. I don't find that at all. I wonderfully and it don't think that bullies have many paved the way for dedeeming values. Let's face it and just the other two say that bullies are bad people and movies. shouldn't be doing what they are doing The second and there's very little that's good about The transformation ofTom Wilson. Top to movie, like the them, if anything. bottom: Griff in 2015, rich Biff in the altered 1985, and old Bifffrom 2015. second act ofa pia y, Were there any Biffs in your life introduces my char­ growing up? talented actor, he would look at '· acter, Biff, a lot me with such pain and embar­ more. He wreaks Absolutely! I was pummeled merci­ rassment that I would really have havoc on the McFly lously by Biffs throughout my forma­ a hard time doing the scene. Some­ family and in Mar­ tive years. My ability to play Biff was times, as an actor, when the stuff gets ty's life and shakes him up a bit. The directly related to my staring these guys kind of real, it gets sort of weird. A film says that if you play with time bad in the face through most of my years in number of times I would have to stop things may very well happen to you. So school. I stared them right in the eye as because I just couldn't do it to the guy. the second film is darker in tone but I they were pulling and pushing me It would almost be so real that I couldn't enjoy it for those reasons. It's much like around. I portrayed what I saw when I put him through that. The Empire Strikes Back. Empire is was in school. I was an asthmatic kid definitely my favorite Star Wars movie - I was sick from school a lot. I was What do you think has made Biff because it dealt with real issues. It got your run-of-the-mill Charles Atlas such a cruel and mean-spirited per­ down to some of the scarier aspects of want-to-be. I was the kid who got sand son? life. It introduced real challenges and kicked in his face, and, in portraying I think that his grandmother nagging real foibles in the antagonist. Biff, I just used all that imagery that I him had something to do with it. Just had. his bitter resentment to what has hap­ What have you found most difficult Isn't it ironic that now you are known pened in his life has made him the way about shooting Part Two and Part all over the world for playing a bully. he is. You know, let's face it, he's a Three back-to-back? loser. As big as the guy is, have you It is the ultimate irony that my most ever actually seen him punch some­ It was literally debilitating physically. famous role is that of a bully. body? He's a loser! He takes punches, Michael J. Fox and I talked about it and we said we never understood before What do you fmd most enjoyable about he's got a glass jaw, he tries to torture how a person could be actually hospi­ playing a character like Biff? people smaller than him, and lots of times he's relatively successful in that talized for exhaustion but it was really There's something about being the vil­ but most every time we see him he's impressed upon us how you can just lain that is compelling. People are bothering a guy much smaller than exhaust yourself physically. Back To somehow drawn to the villain and they him. He's a loser and he knows it and The Future Part II was the most diffi­ watch what is happening when the vil­ the only thing he has is size and evil cult thing I have ever done in my entire lain is on the screen. The villain is intent so he wreaks havoc on whoever life. The makeup process that I went always an integral part of the plot itself he can. through day after day was incredibly because he makes the story go. There exhausting. I spent literally hundreds of Don't you think as an old man that are always interesting things to do as hours in the makeup chair. I think it the villain. Realistically, as an actor, Biff has learned something? was over 300 hours. And that really sometimes being the villain is a tough He's become more of a curmudgeon takes a lot out of you. When I was thing. During the first movie, in scenes than an evil bully. He can laugh at doing the split screen stuff with the that I was actually bullying Crispin himself in his misspent youth. He thinks ILM Vistaglide camera, my day would Glover, I think that Crispin is such a of himself as a young man and he begin at 3:00 in the morning. My alarm -4- clock would go off at 2: !Sam, I would something like that - to play so many be in the makeup chair at 3:00am, I different ages. I'm the luckiest actor on would go through 6 hours of makeup Earth! I'm so blessed to have been a and I would do one half of the scene as part of these movies and it's a wonder­ the old Biff. Then while everyone else ful memory for me. was having lunch, I went through a Have the Back To The Future movies process that took over an hour of pain­ changed your life? staking makeup removal and then they would remake me up as the young Biff There certainly is a difference between and I would go back and do my lines being an actor that has to just beat responding to the old Biff which I had doors down to have anyone pay atten­ already shot. I would get home at tion to you and being in movies of such approximately 8:00 at night and some­ high profile. I can get meetings with times later. It was extremely exhaust­ people and get auditions for things that ing. So upon the completion of Back a lot of other actors can't get and I feel To The Future Part IL we had about a very lucky to have that opportunity. I two week break before we started on Back To The Future Part III which was Above: Buford Tannen creating problems for Marty and Doc in the old west. Below: Buford another huge undertaking. My makeup and his gang of outlaws. on Part III wasn't quite as bad but it filming of Part II that everybody was about an hour and a half a day of kind of relaxed and had a good glueing a beard, a mustache and dirt to time. The location shooting was my face. I play Biffs great, great grand­ great and getting to ride horses father, Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen in and roping and shooting guns - Part III. The third film was exhausting we had fun playing cowboys and in its own right. We've all put in a Indians. lifetime's worth of work in these last Which time period in Part II is two movies. your favorite? Do you use a different voice for I enjoyed what we called "Biffor­ "Mad Dog" Tannen? rific." I enjoyed the time period Yes, it's a different tone of voice. It's a where Biff actually owns all of very deep, gravelly voice with a nice Hill Valley in the altered 1985. Southwestern twang, like a good cow­ Biff is the evil millionaire horrifying think most actors are pretty surprised boy should have. person. But it was fun to play with all by the lack of change generally when that happening to the character. they get a high profile role in a film. As Was there a feeling of deja vu for you an actor, it's a bit more success and you when you came back to do Part II and How would you describe Michael J. get to do neat things in movies and such Part III? Fox? but I'm still the same guy. I still put my There was enough of a feeling of deja He's a great guy. Michael is a very nice pants on one leg at a time and it's just vu doing Part II from Part I. Especially person who, in the crush of his amazing me, my wife and kids and our dog. I in this fugue-like plot device where a success, has remained a very normal, still drive a truck and I'm just a regular lot of the scenes actually happen again very genuine person. I have nothing guy. I'm the same Tom Wilson I always but in a slightly different way. Biffs but good things to say about him. Our was. Success hasn't spoiled me. great, great grandfather will confront work experience together was a very What kind of role would you now Marty McFly again but it's in a western pleasant one for me and I look forward like to sink your teeth into? saloon. And the scene ends up in gun­ to doing it again anytime. play. I started calling all this "deja Biff' After a role like Biff in the Back To The Are you sad that you have to leave because I just kept thinking, "Boy, I've Future movies, sinking my teeth into a Biff behind now? done this before!" role is something I'm used to now. I'm Yeah, it is kind of sad. After such a hard looking for meaty stuff. Of course, my What do you like most about Back work load for well over a year there is a To The Future Part III? first reaction, after playing a character release there when it's over and I have like Biff, is to go and try to do some­ I think the third movie was the most missed Biff. The crewcut is no longer thing like the St. Francis of Assisi story! fun to film because of all the cowboy with me as my hair grows out and I Something that has me helping small stuff. We had a blast! Part III was easily become Tom Wilson again. I do miss injured children or something! (Laugh­ my favorite to shoot. The experience of Biff but it was such a wonderful time in ter) But I'm just out there looking for making it was the most fun for me. We my life that I'll never forget it. How parts that are compelling and challeng- had become such a family through the many actors get the opportunity to do (Continued on Page 13) -5- OFFICIAL BACK TO THE FUTURE MERCHANDISE

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At this point, though, working right and for just a moment we see to travel to 1885 is, of course, with the there is still one unresolved loose end. The the date 1885 appear and then vanish. It DeLorean. And the only way for him to get car accident that Marty's mother told us would seem that the 1885 date had been one is if Doc hid the DeLorean back in 1885 about has yet to happen. So there is still the programmed into the time circuits previously and tells Marty where it is located in the possibility that Marty's life could go down to this point. We know that Doc didn't do it letter. Now Marty and the 1955 version of the tubes. Marty knows nothing about this and neither did Marty. So who's left? Biff. Doc can retrieve the car and make the forthcoming, life-changing accident and Consider this as well. If Biff did indeed needed repairs to it, so Marty can go to 1885 therefore has no means to prevent it. Or does travel back to the old west, as it seems he did, and rescue Doc. he? Jennifer is his ace in the hole here. She then the fact that he returns to the same 2015 Now that we've figured out a way for overheard Lorraine talking about the acci­ that he left is no longer a problem. You see, Marty to reach 1885, what actually happens dent and since she is supposed to be with by going to 1885, which Marty later does as once he gets there? From the preview we Marty when it occurs she could possibly well, Biff gives Marty the time he needs to know that Marty runs into Bifrs old ances­ prevent it. Yet according to Doc, by leaving destroy the almanac. What this does is elim­ tor, Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen. It would her on her porch swing she will wake up inate the future in which Biff is rich and also seem that Buford has some sort of thinking her trip to the future was simply a powerful, so when he goes back to the future grudge against Marty. Perhaps Marty some­ dream. But the filmmakers provided for that the only future he can possibly go to is the how messed up some plan of Buford's and as well. If you were watching closely, you one that he originally left. now he's gunning for Marty. Whatever the should remember that just before Jennifer So Back to the Future Part III is a western exact circumstances, it seems clear that Back leaves her future home, she stuffs one of the and Old Biff is somehow involved in the to the Future Part III will concern Marty and fax printouts saying "You're Fired" into her events of 1885. Doc's need to return to their correct time, jacket pocket. So at some point in 1985, she Now, let's talk about Marty. At the end of while preventing Buford from killing them. will take the fax out of her pocket and realize the second film, Marty is trapped in 1955. But why do Marty and Doc stick around that her trip to the future wasn't a dream· Yet, we know that in the third film, Marty in 1885 once Marty arrives? There are sev­ after all. This will allow her to alter her manages to travel back to 1885. But how eral possibilities. First, something happens to future life with Marty by preventing Marty does he do that? Sure, Marty goes to the the DeLorean. It wouldn't be the first time. from the mistake he was supposed to make. 1955 version of Doc Brown for help, but at Maybe the warranty on the DeLorean's Mr. But this is all just speculation extrapolated that time neither one of them knows how to Fusion has run out! It's not too likely that from what we know already, which may or construct a time machine. Remember, it Doc is going to find a qualified Mr. Fusion may not be correct. So don't go into the third takes Doc thirty years to figure out how to repair center in 1885! Something could also film expecting it to fall in line with the specu­ do that. be wrong with the car's time circuits. Still lation in this article. We don't have long to Obviously Doc can't simply return to another possibility is that Biff does some­ wait to either confrrm or disprove this specu­ 1955 and pick up Marty. If that were the thing in the past that would adversely affect lation because on May 25, 1990 we'll all be case Doc would never have sent Marty the the future. Then again, all of these possibili- going Back to the Future. •

If we were to make a visual representation of Back To The Future Parts I and //, it might look very much like the diagram presented here. Now, with the aid of this diagram, you can retrace the adventures of our favorite time travelers and see which timeline represents current reality and which ones no longer exist. For instance, you'll note that on the original timeline, the events from 1955 onward have been eliminated due to Marty's excursion into the past. or course, the time­ line in which Biff is rich and powerful is now only a really bad nightmare. So how will Part m change things? Will Marty's car accident in 1985 [ffi]DOC & MARTY

be prevented? If it is, then a T I ME T RAVEL E:VENTS T IME TRAVEL new timeline will be created, which is represented by our

is speculate, but on May 25th, @PART THREE 1990 we'Dknow the reality of KNOWN SP EC U ~ ATIVE CURRENT E LIMINATED S P ECUL ATIVE the situation.

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SPECIAl the EFFECTS of

By JohnS. Davis past is because, until very recently, it was Yet the need to worry about the precise impossible. And director Robert Zemeckis position of the characters was unnecessary et's take a look at Back to the loves to pursue the impossible. due to the fact that the animators could Future Part II At first, the effects But even Zemeckis doesn't pursue the simply draw them in where they needed to L may not appear to have been excep­ impossible without first doing a few warm­ be. But in Back to the Future Part II, things tionally difficult to create compared to such up exercises, and, in this case, the exercise were a little more complicated. Zemeckis films as The Empire Strikes Back, Return of was Who Framed Roger Rabbit. decided to not lock the camera in a set the Jedi or Who Framed Roger Rabbit, yet, After seeing the films Who Framed Roger position while filming the scenes where one in this case, appearances are deceiving. In Rabbit and Back to the Future Part II, one actor played multiple roles as had always Back to the Future Part been done in the past. II we have flying cars, a Instead he treated these time traveling DeLor­ scenes very much as he ean, a 3-D holographic would any other: he shark, and hoverboards, moved the camera but those are just the around and had the effects we are able to characters interact to see. It's the invisible the point of passing var.­ effects, in this case split ious objects such as hats, lines, that complicate books, and even a pitch­ things. er of iced tea to each It's not that split lines other. To accomplish are typically difficult to the effect they were do or that they haven't after, a new camera had been used for any great to be developed, called length of time, it's just the Vistaglide, which that this time their use could not only record was taken far beyond the exact movements of what bas ever been done the actors but also of before. We've all seen thecameraaswell. With­ the results of split lines. Their use enables out the Vistaglide, Back to the Future Part II filmmakers to bave various elements together would not have been possible. in the same shot which cannot be filmed at In addition, the actors movements within the same time. The technique has also been a scene had to be precisely determined so used when stories require a character to that each of the separately filmed elements come face-to-face with himself or someone within the scene would composite together who looks exactly like him. In the past, properly. To achieve these exact movements when this was done, the actor, who would during filming, the actors wore tiny ear­ also play his double, would film each part phones which transmitted a recording of separately and then the two filmed segments themselves reading their other character's would be composited together. But the two dialogue so they could get the timing of their look-a-likes never interacted with each other, lines correct. At the same time, the director they never passed each other, and never transmits instructions, via the earphone, tell­ exchanged objects with one another. ing the actors exactly how they should Those were the good old days. In this scene, Michael J. Fox plays three of the move: sit down, stand up, turn your head to four characters, each of which had to be shot Now special effects have become an art seperately, using split-lines, so the shot could be the left. Everything has to be precisely form in their own right. In Back to the composited together later. The bottom photo coordinated. Future Part II, split lines no longer represent shows how each element was masked off using Once the filming of these scenes is com­ the good old days. In the good old days, we split-lines. pleted, the ILM optical department takes never would have seen Michael J . Fox play­ over, and in Back to the Future Part II, they ing Marty at age forty-seven while at the might conclude that in terms of effects Roger had their work cut out for them. same time playing his son Marty Jr. and his Rabbit was more difficult to shoot. This, "There's a lot of interaction in this film," daughter Marlene in the same scene with however, is not the case. In Roger Rabbit, says optical man Stuart Robertson. "Bob each of these three characters interacting the actors had to react to animated 'toons Zemeckis moves all the time. There's a lot of with one another. The reason we never that weren't really there and ILM had to interaction. The old traditional splits were, would have seen something like this in the later composite them with the live action. 'Don't ever cross this line and we won't -11- move the camera and we'll just put a split happen in Back To the Future Part Ill But they would ask the computer to make them a right there.' It's real nice." doing a good job in effects like that is circle and this circle has imaginary points "There's two different types of splits that completely different kind of work." around its circumference called control points. we use," says optical man John Ellis. "Actu- Of course, not all of the effects were "You can grab one of them with the ally more than two, but what Stuart used in handled by ILM's optical department. The mouse," says Luskin, "and you can pull it the pizza shot is a combination of soft splits, film also required the efforts of model mak- and then your circle is distorted. Now, you soft being out of focus, just like a soft edge, ers, matte painters, and computer animators. can make a whole shark by having lots of and hard splits. Some of the hard splits Although computer animation can be used cross-sections and there's a program which would have been in the gymnasium when for a variety of purposes, its primary use in skins all these cross-sections." Marty lowers himself down on the rope and Back to the Future Part I/ was in creating the After a line drawing of the shark is con- he drops the sandbags on the guys while you holographic shark which dives out of a structed with these cross-sections and skin- still see him performing on stage from the movie marquee onto unsuspecting pedestri- ned, the next task is to animate the shark stage wing. Those were hard splits because ans in the year 2015. Jonathan Luskin and properly. A background plate of the movie we had a nice blue, shiny mylar area that we Stephen Rosenbaum, who are both mem- marquee was scanned into the computer could come down and then we just split hers of the ILM computer graphics team, enabling the animators to position the shark along a seam in the floor. A good example of suggested generating the shark solely by correctly in the scene. a soft split would be the pizza shot or Marty computer. But not everyone was convinced Another job for the computer graphics picking himself up and taking the hat off that a computer-generated shark was the team was doing some wire removal in the himself. best way to go. They felt it would cost too ftlm. A number of different effects required "It's complicated in finding a way to much and take too long. So the computer the production team to use thin black wires simply split up the frame. In opticals, be- graphics team spent five days working on a to support objects during filming, from the cause of the nature of film, whenever you test to prove that their idea was the best DeLorean to the hoverboards. do a split you're almost certainly going to approach for the sequence. After that, they "We have a program which can remove have some kind of an artifact left from it. If got the go-ahead and the real work began. the wires," says Luskin. What we do is tell you know where to look in a scene, you can "The first model I made," says Jonathan the computer where the wires are and it find the split. The difficult part is in finding Luskin, "looked a lot more like a real shark replaces where the wire is with something a way to mix and hide your splits and to and it was put together sloppily. The second that looks very much like the background, mix up hard and soft splits in the same model had to look more like this stupid so much so that you can't tell the difference. thing. It's very easy if you have a definite shark that they wanted with headlight eyes "The key thing here is there's a million hard line. This is one side and this is in the front. It was a goofy shark. We called techniques used for even one sequence. They another. But we've got focus changes, the it Bruce and it was like the shark in Jaws. It use whatever technique is the best, so it's camera's moving, and people are crossing very definitely was modeled after Jaws. The hard to make a blanket statement. The best in front of the split or going behind the split. idea is that, in the future for Jaws 19, there's point that Steve made is that really the hard- I can't think of one split that was your no money for the effects budget, so they use est stuff in wire-removal we did is computer normal straight-line-down-the-water-pipe- very cheap effects. That's an unusual thing graphics. The first thing you try to do with on-the-wall split, it was just all over the for us to do. It's almost an opportunity wires, as far as I can see, is ignore them place and the split line would change as the because, often when you're working, you because you light the scene and you can't see actors moved around." have some bug or some mistake and you them and everything moves so fast. Back to the Future Part II is the first film have to fix it. In this case, they were more "There's lots of things you can do before ever to incorporate actors playing multiple like features.'' you get into computer graphics, which is a roles in the same scenes without locking the Once a three-dimensional model of the very powerful technique, but you don't want camera in a set position during the filming of shark is completed, the computer animators to use it everywhere in the world. The thing the scene. This, of course, multiplied optical's begin to slowly construct the shark piece by is, with these kinds of effects, they're not just task greatly, but the final outcome proved piece. In this case, the animators started with futuristic sorts of things. For instance, there's that what was once impossible to do is now geometric primatives. What this means is that a scene with a train in Part III and there's very much possible. The only problem Marty is attacked by a computer-generated shark just when he some people hanging off it. In very is that most people don't realize how thought it was safe to go Back To The Future. dangerous situations like that they difficult and time consuming certain fake it, which means you might shoot types of effects can be, especially those the people blue screen, hanging on effects that are invisible, like splits. \ wires, something like that. Those are Yet the seamless integration of those situations where we use wire removal. unnoticeable effects is just another Plus, in Back to the Future Part IlL indication of the quality of ILM's they bring things like the hoverboard work. back to the old west. A lot of our "We do a good job," says Stuart effects are invisible." Robertson. "Effects ten years ago were Certainly there was more to the flying spaceships in outer space and effects of Back to the Future Part II that was fine, everybody knew that than what is briefly described above, was an effect. Now we're trying to but it does give us an indication of have a family sit down to a more what the ILM effects team went realistic dinner, but it happens to be a through to create these futuristic ef- dehydrated pizza and with the same fects. In the next issue, we will take a actor playing three parts and all three look at some of the other effects not parts interacting so that they pass the covered here as well as the effects for pitcher back and forth, which will Back to the Future Part Ill 1!1 -12- TOM WILSON and crew as family. I know that sounds the cast and crew of Back To The trite and ridiculous but it is the truth. Future are really some of the greatest (Continued from Page 5) Everybody got along famously and it people I've worked with. It was a was a lot of fun to do. What it all boils wonderful experience that I'll re­ ing. I like doing those different charac­ down to is that we had a good time and member for the rest of my life! • ters and changing. 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