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The (Back to the) Future is Already Here

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but the Internet would like to let you know that today is Back to the Future Day (in the USA at least, it’s been and gone in Australia because we really do live in the future).

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Yeah, the second film predicted the Cubs to win the World Series in 2015. No, it’s not Michael J. Fox’s b-day or the anniversary of the Robert Zemeckis classic’s premiere. When you’re driving up 81 in a time machine, you always get a lot of nods, people taking pictures.

“I wanted to be Marty McFly”, said Wallace.

Although there still aren’t flying cars and most fans said their biggest disappointment was not having the hover boards made famous in the movie. “So it was fun to play off of and when I saw her doing what she was doing, I said, “This is going to be charming”. I think we’re done’ producer Frank Marshall told Reuters about the possibilities and odds of going “Back to the Future” for a fourth time – much less rebooting.

Fox made a spectacular entrance on Kimmel, arriving on stage in a DeLorean driven by co-star Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown.

‘It seems like 2015 kind of sucks, ‘ Marty observes.

Nike sent him a pair of Nike Air Mags on Wednesday to prove that “Back to the Future” got its shoe prediction right.

To mark #BackToTheFuture Day yesterday, where social media went insane in celebrating the date Marty McFly travelled to in the 1985 film, the shoes are modelled on McFly’s attire in Back To The Future II – but we’re not entirely sure they’d be suitable for the golf course…

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For those who don’t want to leave home, the trilogy is exclusively streaming on Amazon Prime, and Universal is releasing a special edition trilogy box set in light-up packaging resembling Doc Brown’s flux capacitor.

Back to the Future 2 No flying cars yet but much of what it predicted has come to pass