To celebrate the anniversary of Robert Zemeckis's enduring time-travel comedy/adventure co-stars Christopher Llyod, Lea Thompson, Claudia Wells, Donald Fullilove and key members of the production team joined a packed house for a screening of the film accompanied by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, which performed composer Alan Silvestri's celebrated score.
When asked about whether or not if there will be a remake of the classic sci-fi film, "Back to the Future" director Robert Zemeckis explained that Universal Pictures can't remake, let alone do anything with the 'BTTF' brand unless they've his and screenwriter Bob Gale's permission. Christopher Lloyd, now 76, played the iconic Emmett "Doc" Brown in the film, the inventor of the time-traveling DeLorean.
When asked about his role in Back to the Future, the actor said, "He was mad about adventure and invention and breaking boundaries, and he had an incredible mind to do this," "I always admired and was kind of in awe of people like Einstein, that they could imagine ahead of their time, see things that somebody else has never seen. I thought, 'Doc Brown's that kind of guy.' "
Lea Thompson was just 24 when she was cast as the older and younger versions of Lorraine. She said that when she first did the screen test inside Steven Spielburg's office, she remembered that Steven was working the camera and she mention, "Wow, I really made it."
"It was my first movie I had ever done," remembered Claudia Wells, only 18 when she took on the role of Marty's girlfriend Jennifer - a part that first eluded her due to a conflicting commitment, but came back to her months later when Fox replaced original lead Eric Stoltz and an actress more suited to the actor's 5'4" stature was needed. But amidst all these stories about there experiences during the making of the movie, the lead actor Michael J. Fox, did not attend the event.
Fox played Marty McFly in the movie.
