The History Of Marty McFly And Doc Brown From The ‘Back To The Future’ Series Revealed

It was never revealed in the 'Back to the Future' movies how Doc Brown and Marty McFly ever got acquainted. Why was a middle aged whacky scientist hanging out with a 17 year old high school rock and roller? The truth, straight from one of the co-creaters, has been revealed!

I'll start by saying this. 'Back to the Future' is my favorite trilogy ever. Yes, I still love the original Star Wars trilogy, and Indiana Jones trilogy (No, I'm not counting The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull), and all that, but I guess it was the timing in my life when these movies came out that just stuck with me. And if they try to remake them, I'm gonna be PISSED!

Now that that's out of the way...Bob Gale, who co-created the 'Back to the Future' movies with Robert Zemeckis, recently wrote to Mental Floss, and explained the back story of how Marty and Doc became the time traveling adventuring friends we came to know and love:

"Okay, from the horse's mouth (yes, I'm the horse—er, co-writer, co-creator): We never explained it in the movie. But the history of the characters that Bob Zemeckis and I created is this… For years, Marty was told that Doc Brown was dangerous, a crackpot, a lunatic. So, being a red-blooded American teenage boy, age 13 or 14, he decided to find out just why this guy was so dangerous. Marty snuck into Doc's lab, and was fascinated by all the cool stuff that was there. When Doc found him there, he was delighted to find that Marty thought he was cool and accepted him for what he was. Both of them were the black sheep in their respective environments. Doc gave Marty a part-time job to help with experiments, tend to the lab, tend to the dog, etc. And that's the origin of their relationship.

—Bob Gale"

So, there ya have it! I can die happy now...Thanks, Bob. Thanks for that.