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Development
The greatest challenge was the creation of the futuristic vision of Marty's home town in the year 2015. Production Designer Rick Carter wanted to create a very detailed image that has a different tone than  “Blade Runner (film)” has, he says he wanted to get past the smoke and the chrome. Rick Carter and his most talented men spent months plotting, planning and preparing in order to turn Hill Valley into a city of the future.

When writing the script for BTTF 2, writer and producer Bob Gale wanted to push the ideas of the first film further in order to make it funny.

Robert Zemeckis remembers that initially the Back to the Future (movie) was not supposed to have a sequel. When it became a huge success in the audience the movie became a franchise and a sequel was planned. At first the sequel was supposed to take place in the 60's in a setting typical of that time with the Hippie movement and a flower child. But in the consequence problems occured in the negotiations about the appearance of Crispin Glover in the sequel. Robert Zemeckis says that it is difficult to predict to future when you are writing a story about the future because you can make many mistakes about what is going to happen in the future.

Production
All in all it took two years to finish the set building and the writing on the script before shooting could finally take place. During the shooting it was a well guarded secret how the futurized, that is aged, characters would look like. Their look was created using a state of the art make-up techniques. Michael J. Fox describes the process as very time consuming, “it took over four hours although it could be worse”.

[Robert Zemeckis]] describes the message of the movie as a lesson about the use of information about the future. Information about the future can be dangerous, when it is used to change the world to negative results. In the movie the main characters Marty and Doc Brown have to go back and repair the caused damage.

Writer and producer Bob Gale says that the film is not supposed to be nostalgic, the effect of the film depends on how old the spectator is. The character of Marty McFly, being a kid from the 80's, who is stuck in the 50's wouldn't like it at all. He wouldn't understand why some things are unavailable at this time and why there are things he couldn't do and he would want to get back home. During the movie screenings he realized that young people laugh at certain things and old people laugh at different things, depending on what the people respond to. Robert Zemeckis remembers that the previews were great. Bob Gale tells about the first previews that they were surprising for the spectators who have never heard of it before, when the dog Einstein disappeared in the car they believed that he was dead and were very relieved when the dog came back alive.

The problem with the production has been to recreate in detail the sets and scenes from the first film that played in the 50's. Michael J. Fox says that it was like a déjà-vu for him to play exactly the same scenes he has already done before, for example the scene where he is performing “Johnny be good" on stage during the "Enchantment under the sea" dance.

The actors resume their parts in the sequel. Marty McFly is portrayed by Michael J. Fox, Emmett Brown by Christopher Lloyd, Loraine McFly by Lea Thompson and Marty's arch nemesis Biff Tannen is played by Thomas F. Wilson. Alterations in the cast occurred due to Crispin Glover's unappropriate claims. As a result Crispin Glover's role of George McFly was rewritten so that he is dead when the action takes place in the alternate version of the future in the year 2015. Elisabeth Shue took over the part of Marty's girlfriend Jennifer.

DVD
The Back to the Future 2-DVD comprises of several features. The Bonus Material starts with the BTTF2 Featurette with information about the production of the movie. The Making of the Trilogy - Chapter 2 describes how the film was developed mainly by the participation of Bob Gale, the writer and producer and Robert Zemeckis the director of the movie. Another features included are: Outtakes, The Hoverboard-Test, Storyboards to Final Feature Comparisons, Production Archives and the Theatrical Trailer.

Back to the Future 2 begins where Back to the Future has ended, that is when Doc Brown returns back from the year 2015 to tell Marty that he has to accompany Doc Brown on a rescue mission of Marty's son. Jennifer, Marty's girlfriend is alarmed and joins them, the three of them get into the DeLorean and set off for the year 2015.