Back to the Future screenplay

[whaledriver]

So I was watching a youtube video about the making of Back To The Future.  They talk about writing the first version of the screenplay for the movie.  The picture they show while talking about writing the screenplay has Bob Gale using a word processor.  Its hard to tell but that sure looks like an Atari XE computer.  That would be a pretty cool bit of history if the screen play for one of the most iconic movies made was written on an Atari.

 

What do you guys think?

 

Here is the video.  

 

The picture is at 3:56

Edited February 13, 2020 by whaledriver

[+Nezgar]

I remembered this being mentioned previously. There's probably other threads too.

[whaledriver]

Ha!  I thought that this might have been caught before.  I did a quick search and didn't come up with anything.  Oh well.  Sorry for the re-hash.

 

[Gunstar]

Yep, been there, done that, it's still cool though. Someone was commenting on the printer there in one of the previous threads too.

[+slx]

Could be an Indus GT right of the computer and beneath the printer.

[SoundGammon]

Back To The Future was released in 1985, when was the XE released?

[Gunstar]

1985. It is an XE, that was established for sure in the previous thread about it. I also owned one for 20 years and can verify, even from that poor picture that it is an XE.

Edited February 13, 2020 by Gunstar

[Rybags]

The problem I see - first draft of BTTF was 1981.  Though with films it's not uncommon for massive rewrite if it's a book to screenplay translation and not uncommon for script changes during filming and even during post-production.

 

[manterola]

I first saw this picture and a mini book released together with BTTF3.  Back To the Future : The Official Book of the Complete Movie Trilogy. by  Klastorin, Michael and Hibbin, Sally

So I think that by 1990 there were plenty of Atari XEs

[Gunstar]

Here is the original thread about this: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/244785-back-to-the-future-written-on-an-xe/?tab=comments#comment-3350126

[_The Doctor__]

On 2/13/2020 at 5:24 PM, Gunstar said:

Here is the original thread about this: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/244785-back-to-the-future-written-on-an-xe/?tab=comments#comment-3350126

Yep, he used an 800 for many things, but moved on to a 130XE with iNdus and and hp printer for Back to the future. Catch some more pictures of it soon on reelz channel Back To The Future: Behind closed doors...

[_The Doctor__]

I might as well post a couple

[Rybags]

As if by coincidence I recently watched some Minty Comedic Arts YT docs on BTTF.   I don't think there's any mention of sight of Ataris though, but having watched numerous movie related docos it's pretty common for novel to screenplay to script amendments to take place at all stages, even during the final edit (Star Wars original being a classic example, and there's a YT video on that worth looking up)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited June 29, 2020 by Rybags

[Kyle22]

If you research T. T. Brown Fluxliner, then Doc Brown's Flux Capacitor sounds about right.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1153437/pg1

 

Edited June 30, 2020 by Kyle22
Sorry if O. T.