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 ====== Dirty Laundry : Film changes ====== ====== Dirty Laundry : Film changes ======
  
-Steven Spielberg films a sequel to //E.T. the Extraterrestrial//, as the film's merchandise (such as the Atari video game) put pressure on him. 1984's //E.T. II: Night Terrors// bombs and is widely considered one of the worst movies ever, derailing the career of lead actor Michael J. Fox. Spielberg pulls the plug on an equally scary for kids movie in development he was producing, //Gremlins//, and delays the second Indiana Jones. //Temple of Doom// - rated PG-13,  a rating inspired by the outcry //Night Terrors// caused - misses the summer season but becomes the biggest movie of 1984, and beingwidely considered a much improved sequel. +Steven Spielberg films a sequel to //E.T. the Extraterrestrial//, as the film's merchandise (such as the Atari video game) put pressure on him. 1984's //E.T. II: Night Terrors// bombs and is widely considered one of the worst movies ever, derailing the career of lead actor Michael J. Fox. Spielberg pulls the plug on an equally scary for kids movie in development he was producing, //Gremlins//, and delays the second Indiana Jones. //Temple of Doom// - rated PG-13,  a rating inspired by the outcry //Night Terrors// caused - misses the summer season but becomes the biggest movie of 1984, and being widely considered a much improved sequel. 
  
 **IOTL**: //Night Terrors// had a treatment written but was dropped before the script was even done as Spielberg felt a sequel to //E.T.// would only be detrimental to the original. //Temple of Doom// was released in May, became the third biggest money maker of the year (behind //Ghostbusters// and //Beverly Hills Cop//), is considered the worst of the original trilogy (if not the //quadrilogy//), and the dark content of both that and  fellow 1984 hit //Gremlins// - produced by Spielberg - inspired the MPAA to create the PG-13 rating.  **IOTL**: //Night Terrors// had a treatment written but was dropped before the script was even done as Spielberg felt a sequel to //E.T.// would only be detrimental to the original. //Temple of Doom// was released in May, became the third biggest money maker of the year (behind //Ghostbusters// and //Beverly Hills Cop//), is considered the worst of the original trilogy (if not the //quadrilogy//), and the dark content of both that and  fellow 1984 hit //Gremlins// - produced by Spielberg - inspired the MPAA to create the PG-13 rating. 
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 **IOTL**: Cusack and Howell were considered for Marty, and Stoltz was originally cast before the filmmakers decided he wasn't the right fit, leading them to wait for their original choice - Michael J. Fox. Melora Hardin was let go once Fox joined, as they felt she was too tall next to him. //Part 2// was intended to be a western before Bob Zemeckis and Gale noted they couldn't drop the ending of the original where Marty and Jennifer were going to the future, forcing that to become //Part 3//. They also considered having Marty in 1967 before just reusing the 1955 setting again. Marlene is played by Marty's mother Lea Thompson, and his daughter is Fox himself in drag. **IOTL**: Cusack and Howell were considered for Marty, and Stoltz was originally cast before the filmmakers decided he wasn't the right fit, leading them to wait for their original choice - Michael J. Fox. Melora Hardin was let go once Fox joined, as they felt she was too tall next to him. //Part 2// was intended to be a western before Bob Zemeckis and Gale noted they couldn't drop the ending of the original where Marty and Jennifer were going to the future, forcing that to become //Part 3//. They also considered having Marty in 1967 before just reusing the 1955 setting again. Marlene is played by Marty's mother Lea Thompson, and his daughter is Fox himself in drag.
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-Robert Zemeckis followed //Back to the Future// with another movie for Universal, a screen adaptation of //The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy// written by Douglas Adams himself. It comes out in 1986, along with //I, Robot// written by Harlan Ellison; Cusack's next movie, Ridley Scott's //Legend//; and blockbuster //Top Gun//, starring Emilio Estevez and Jane Seymour.+Robert Zemeckis followed //Back to the Future// with another movie for Universal, a screen adaptation of //The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy// written by Douglas Adams himself. It comes out in 1986, being one of the three biggest hits of the year, along with //I, Robot// written by Harlan Ellison; Cusack's next movie, Ridley Scott's //Legend//; and blockbuster //Top Gun//, starring Emilio Estevez and Jane Seymour. The latter two are among the top ten highest-grossing movies of 1986.
  
-**IOTL**: Douglas Adams did move to America hoping to get the //H2G2// movie running, but it fell victim to development hell and only came out after his death, in 2005. Ellison's script was done in the 1970s and didn't go anywhere, with //I, Robot// eventually naming a Will Smith movie without ties to Isaac Asimov. Both the 1986 movies that did come out starred Tom Cruise, +**IOTL**: Douglas Adams did move to America hoping to get the //H2G2// movie running, but it fell victim to development hell and only came out after his death, in 2005. Ellison's script was done in the 1970s and didn't go anywhere, with //I, Robot// eventually naming a Will Smith movie without ties to Isaac Asimov. Both the 1986 movies that did come out starred Tom Cruise, with //Top Gun// the year's biggest hit and //Legend// tanking but becoming a cult classic.
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 //Fletch//, a comedy action-thriller film starring Chevy Chase based on Gregory Mcdonald's popular Fletch novels, is a massive hit upon release in 1985. While it debuted at second place behind //Rambo: First Blood Part II//, it topped the box office the following weekend, remaining there for four weeks before being dethroned by //Back to the Future//. //Fletch// grossed $97,5 million worldwide, the fourth biggest hit of the year, and several sequels, starting with 1986's //Confess, Fletch//. //Fletch//, a comedy action-thriller film starring Chevy Chase based on Gregory Mcdonald's popular Fletch novels, is a massive hit upon release in 1985. While it debuted at second place behind //Rambo: First Blood Part II//, it topped the box office the following weekend, remaining there for four weeks before being dethroned by //Back to the Future//. //Fletch// grossed $97,5 million worldwide, the fourth biggest hit of the year, and several sequels, starting with 1986's //Confess, Fletch//.
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-Warner Bros., flush with cash from the sale of Atari to Honeywell, purchased the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) as a vehicle for diversifying their film portfolio. Two of the inherited projects came out in 1986, //The Transformers: The Movie// - directed by Chuck Jones, written by Simon Furman and having a //Star Wars//-inspired plot different from the TV series to draw in newcomers, and even brought James Earl Jones as Unicron - and Robert Bresson's //Genesis//+Warner Bros., flush with cash from the sale of Atari to Honeywell, purchased the DeLaurentiis Entertainment Group (DEG) as a vehicle for diversifying their film portfolio. Two of the inherited projects came out in 1986, //The Transformers: The Movie// - directed by Chuck Jones, written by Simon Furman and having a //Star Wars//-inspired plot different from the TV series to draw in newcomers, and even brought James Earl Jones as Unicron - and Robert Bresson's //Genesis//, both among the biggest hits of 1986 (the latter in the top 3)
  
 **IOTL**: //The Transformers// is only a bigger episode of the TV series with plenty of death to showcase new toys - as Orson Welles, who finished off his career as Unicron, summed up, "I played the voice of a toy. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen." Bresson spent decades wanting to do //Genesis//, and Dino DeLaurentiis tried helping him in the mid-1980s before running short of cash. **IOTL**: //The Transformers// is only a bigger episode of the TV series with plenty of death to showcase new toys - as Orson Welles, who finished off his career as Unicron, summed up, "I played the voice of a toy. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen." Bresson spent decades wanting to do //Genesis//, and Dino DeLaurentiis tried helping him in the mid-1980s before running short of cash.
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