And he certainly was in no jeopardy from me either (you’ll see)

But the #BackToTheFuture script that I read before my audition was VERY DIFFERENT than what ended up on screen.

Thread https://twitter.com/redhourben/status/1287979855875903489

It opened with Marty McFly playing the Close Encounters theme on his electric guitar while he pirated a VHS cassette of the movie.

And the time machine wasn’t a Delorean that had to travel at 88 miles per hour and have 1.21 gigawatts of power but just... well... a time machine that needed nuclear fission and a secret ingredient that turned out to be...

Coca-Cola

(Swear to god)

The final sequence didn’t involve a clock tower or a lightning bolt, but instead finds Marty sneaking onto a atom bomb test site with his time machine to be near the nuclear fission that he needs for it to work.

In an eerie scene he finds...

The test site is complete with exquisitely detailed suburban houses and mannequins to simulate the effects of an atomic explosion on an American town.

He gets the time machine in place, the atom bomb is about to go off, he’s reaching for the Coca-Cola, the countdown is at 10, 9, 8... when he slips and drops the bottle!!

It shatters on the ground

He’s all out of Coke!

He panics (understandably) but then remembers: he’s in the 1950’s and any self respecting American suburban home has a bottle of Coke in...

The refrigerator! He checks and sure enough, there’s one in there. He pours it in the time machine but then realizes...

Oh crap! He has to figure out how to survive an atomic explosion!

Again, he panics.

But then it dawns on him, there’s a lead-lined box nearby, otherwise known as...

A refrigerator.

He climbs in, closes the door behind him, the bomb goes off, the time machine activates, and he’s simultaneously shot #BackToTheFuture

Does this sequence sound familiar to anyone?

I can hear you all collectively screaming “Yes, yes, Jon!! It does! Clearly Spielberg loved the scene and repurposed it decades later for a much-maligned scene in INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL!!”

I love how you were all on the same page about that.

Do you remember any of this, @RedHourBen ? Or did you get the actual shooting script?