Fans of the sci-fi classic the DeLorean, the car that existed only in the 1980s, transformed into a time machine thanks to Doc's breakthrough invention, the Flux Capacitor. How, exactly, does a Flux Capacitor work? Presumably, fans who read the book will finally find out.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis and executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, Back to the Future grossed a staggering $210 million during its release and launched Michael J. Fox into the stratosphere of movie superstardom. Fellow sitcom star Christopher Lloyd (Taxi) co-starred as eccentric scientist Doc Brown, who stole a teensy bit of plutonium from some terrorists to power his time machine, sending prototypical '80s teen Marty McFly to 1955. The successful sequels that followed in 1989 and 1990 brought Marty forward to 2015 and Doc back to 1885 - but left many unanswered questions and potential paradoxes in their wake.
Now, those questions are set to be answered at last, with Insight Editions set to release Doc Brown's Owner's Workshop Manual on March 30, written by none other than Bob Gale, the screenwriter who co-wrote the original and penned both sequels. The book, a collaboration with illustrator Joe Walser (a BTTF enthusiast who led the restoration of the original DeLorean from the movie), presents itself as a guide to Doc Brown's inventions, hoverboards, time trains, and more. The book also contains a wealth of original excerpts from Doc's journals, revealing information for the first time about his and Marty's stories that didn't make it to the screen. Pre-order it on Amazon now to learn all of Doc Brown's secrets!
"It seemed natural that we would want to fill in the backstory of Doc’s early time travel experiments and how he arrived at the point of putting it into a car," Gale said. The writer added that the next step was "expanding it even further to fill in all the great little missing stories that you assume from the movies, but here we are saying, ‘Okay, this is how Doc met Marty. This is what happened to Doc when he first arrived in 2015. This is how he survived in the Old West until Marty came back for him.’ These are questions people always ask me.”
Projects like this are incredible gifts to fans, allowing them to delve deeper into their favorite franchises. Back to the Future is the perfect cinematic world to explore because so little about it has been expanded upon since the trilogy's release. Beyond that, what makes this project truly special for Back to the Future fans is that the book was written by Bob Gale, which means the revelations inside are as canon as it gets. What, specifically, is revealed in the book, readers will have to set their DeLoreans to MAR 30 2021 and pre-order the book at Amazon.
