Marty Mcfly, Back to the Future
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Acknowledgments It's That Time Again . v Preface, By Dan Madsen Foreword to the Future . vii Introduction, By Greg Mitchell Thinkin' Fourth-Dimensionally . .ix Abbreviation Key Unlocking the Code to Time Travel . .xi The Timeline By Greg Mitchell and Rich Handley Chapter I: Prehistory to 1 B .C . 3 Chapter IX: 1956 to 1984 A .D . 89 Chapter II: 0000 to 1800 A .D . 7 Chapter X: 1985 A .D . 99 Chapter III: 1881 to 1884 A .D . 15 Chapter XI: 1986 A .D . 112 Chapter IV: 1885 A .D . 22 Chapter XII: 1987 to 1991 A .D . 127 Chapter V: 1886 to 1930 A .D . 35 Chapter XIII: 1992 A .D . 136 Chapter VI: 1931 A .D . 48 Chapter XIV: 1993 to 2014 A .D . 147 Chapter VII: 1932 to 1954 A .D . 63 Chapter XV: 2015 A .D . and Beyond . 153 Chapter VIII: 1955 A .D . 71 Appendices I: Hill Valley: Then and Now (and Later) By Greg Mitchell . 173 II: Courthouse Square: The More Things Change… By Rich Handley and Paul C . Giachetti . 179 III: Make Like a (Family) Tree: Exploring Hill Valley Genealogy By Rich Handley and Paul C . Giachetti . 185 IV: All the Time in the World: Charting the Path of Temporal Travel By Rich Handley . 197 V: Hill Valley Hall of Fame: Historical Meetings and Celebrity Encounters By Rich Handley . 209 iii Unlocking the Code to Time Travel “And that's when you came up with the idea for the Flux Capacitor, which is what makes time travel possible!” — Marty McFly, Back to the Future his chronology draws information from not only the Back Since all entries indicate their sources via the four-letter codes, to the Future films and TV series, but also a variety of other readers are free to reject any aspects of the franchise they prefer t sources, many obscure . For each entry, four-character codes not to acknowledge . By way of example, [BTF1-s1] would indicate indicate the source . Some codes also feature lower-case suffixes, that an entry originated in the first film’s draft-one screenplay, denoting that an entry was culled from the script, novelization or while [BFAN-17] would signify that the source was the animated comic book adaptation of a film or episode . In addition, codes for series’ 17th episode . entries related to the animated series, comics and Telltale Games video game contain an episode or issue number . The symbols and codes are detailed below . To avoid redundancy, notes accompanying the entries use shortened forms of the film titles Some view the films and their spinoffs as taking place in the same (BTF1, BTF2 and BTF3), while Back to the Future Part II and Back universe, while others consider them separate . This chronology does to the Future Part III often drop the word “Part” for brevity’s sake . not take a stance on that debate, utilizing an all-inclusive approach: If What’s more, the franchise’s name as a whole is often shortened it occurred or was noted in the cartoons, comics, games or novels—or simply to BTTF . in a commercial or music video containing BTTF elements—it’s covered here . This includes early-draft scripts that differed greatly Detailed information about particular characters, inventions or from the final product . For the purpose of this book, the events of locations, as well as a complete episode guide, can be found in A such drafts are treated as alternate histories . Matter of Time: The Unauthorized Back to the Future Lexicon, available at hassleinbooks .com, amazon .com and BTTF .com . CODE STORY CODE STORY ARGN BTTF-themed TV commercial: Arrigoni MSFT BTTF-themed TV commercial: Microsoft BFAN Back to the Future: The Animated Series NIKE BTTF-themed TV commercial: Nike BFCG Back to the Future: The Card Game NTND Nintendo Back to the Future—The Ride Mini-Game BFCL Back to the Future comic book (limited series) PIZA BTTF-themed TV commercial: Pizza Hut BFCM Back to the Future comic book (monthly series) REAL Real life BFHM BTTF-themed McDonald’s Happy Meal boxes RIDE Simulator: Back to the Future—The Ride BTFA Back to the Future Annual (Marvel Comics) SCRM 2010 Scream Awards: Back to the Future 25th BTF1 Film: Back to the Future Anniversary Reunion (broadcast) BTF2 Film: Back to the Future Part II SCRT 2010 Scream Awards: Back to the Future 25th BTF3 Film: Back to the Future Part III Anniversary Reunion (trailer) BUDL BTTF-themed TV commercial: Bud Light SIMP Simulator: The Simpsons Ride CHEK BTTF-themed music video: O’Neal McKnight, SLOT Back to the Future Video Slots “Check Your Coat” TEST Screen tests: Crispin Glover, Lea Thompson and CHIC Photographs hanging in Doc Brown’s Chicken Thomas F . Wilson restaurant at Universal Studios TLTL Telltale Games’ Back to the Future—The Game CITY BTTF-themed music video: Owl City, “Deer in UNIV Universal Studios Hollywood promotional video the Headlights” DCTV BTTF-themed TV commercial: DirecTV SUFFIX MEDIUM ERTH The Earth Day Special -b BTF2’s Biff Tannen Museum video (extended version) GALE Interviews and commentaries: Bob Gale and/or -c Animated series credit sequence Robert Zemeckis -d Film deleted scene GARB BTTF-themed TV commercials: Garbarino -n Film novelization GETV BTTF-themed TV commercial: General Electric, -o Film outtake “The Future Is Now” -v Video game print materials or commentaries HUEY BTTF-themed music video: Huey Lewis and the -s1 Screenplay (draft one) News, “The Power of Love” -s2 Screenplay (draft two) LIMO BTTF-themed music video: The Limousines, -s3 Screenplay (draft three) “The Future” -s4 Screenplay (draft four) MCDN BTTF-themed TV commercial: McDonald’s -sp Screenplay (production draft) MITS BTTF-themed TV commercial: Mitsubishi Lancer -sx Screenplay (Paradox) xi The DeLorean nearly becomes a Tyrannosaurus’ next meal CHAPTER I: PREHISTORY TO 1 B.C. Mesozoic Era (252,200,000 B.C. to 66,000,000 B.C.) geological formations on the terrain, Verne horses or Cenozoic Era (66,000,000 B.C. to Present) around in a gyro-beanie cap . The two temporal intruders are discovered by a red-skinned Tyrannosaurus rex, but • Emmett Brown worries that he and fellow time-traveler are saved from becoming the dinosaur’s next meal by Marty McFly could find themselves stranded in one of their father, Emmett L . Brown, who parks his time- these geological eras after the DeLorean’s time circuits traveling DeLorean on the beast’s head . Verne and become damaged in 1931 . Engaging the circuits, he Jules, sporting a pair of rocket boots, hurry inside and fears, could throw the vehicle drastically off-course, return with Doc to their own era [BFAN-c] . sending them to the Cenozoic era—or, worse, the NOTE: Although no date was provided for this Mesozoic [TLTL-4] . encounter, the Tyrannosaurus rex is generally NOTE: Doc’s fear of ending up in the Cenozoic believed to have walked the Earth between 85 era is nonsensical, since that is Earth’s current million and 65 million years ago. Phanerozoic geological era—Doc himself is from the Cenozoic era. October 25, 64,000,000 B.C. Sometime Between 154,000,000 B.C. • Biff Tannen, having stolen Emmett Brown’s DeLorean and 150,000,000 B.C. from the Institute of Future Technology, arrives at the “Dawn of Time” while evading a group of so-called • Desperate to find something spectacular to bring to his “time-travel volunteers” following him in a special elementary school class for show-and-tell, Verne Brown eight-passenger DeLorean . Taunting his pursuers, steals his father’s time-traveling DeLorean and, with Biff flies the car past a Tyrannosaurus rex and into an Marty McFly along for the ride, “borrows” an unhatched active volcano’s lava flow . When the stolen vehicle dinosaur egg from a female Apatosaurus . Verne befriends malfunctions due to Biff’s rough piloting, Doc instructs the dinosaur and, once it hatches, names it “Tiny ”. After the volunteers to accelerate their DeLorean up to 88 some misadventures in 1992, the Browns return Tiny to miles per hour while bumping Tannen’s vehicle, thereby his mother in the Jurassic Period [BFAN-26] . creating a time vortex and slingshotting both cars back NOTE: Scientists date the Jurassic Period as to 1991 [RIDE] . lasting from 199 million to 145 million years NOTE: The eight-seat DeLorean’s time circuits ago, with the Apatosaurus species believed to displayed “8888” during the encounter with the have lived around 154 million to 150 million Tyrannosaurus, as the chronometer’s four-digit years ago. Verne claimed they were traveling a limit made it impossible to show the actual year. “zillion” years into the past, but since that is not The ride’s Sub-Ether Time-Tracking Scanner a real number, it is unknown what year they’d display, however, indicated the Gale-Zemeckis have ended up in had he actually tried to enter Coordinates to be “-64(106) BC,” translating such a destination into the Flux Capacitor. to 64,000,000 B.C. (It should be noted that this would still be about a million years after the Sometime Between 85,000,000 B.C. and 65,000,000 B.C. species’ accepted extinction period.) • Jules and Verne Brown arrive from 1991 A .D . to explore the past . While elder brother Jules studies Back in Time: The Unauthorized Back to the Future Chronology 3 Standoff at the Palace Saloon: Beauregard Tannen confronts Edna Strickland and Doc Brown At the Union camp, Jules attempts to convince • In the new reality caused by the time-travelers’ presence, General Clayton to call off the battle, claiming his own Doc and Jules arrive with a homemade electromagnet niece’s son, Verne, is in danger of being killed .