Originally in BACK TO THE FUTURE, Marty McFly and Doc Brown never get their time-travel experiment off the ground. Their endeavor is halted by Hill Valley Councilman Dick Winston (Craig McNamara), all part of the film's initial backstory involving the city's eminent domain junction against Brown's property. "Originally we saw this as a taut drama," explains co-writer Bob Gale, "The story of 'an everyman-against-the-powers-that-be'. The whole time-travel thing, that was just there to steer the story into the courtroom nitty-gritty." In the original cut of the film, Marty and Doc return home to fashion a legal defense and leave Dick Winston to be gunned down by the Libyan terrorists...
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