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Lea Thompson on Middle-Aged 'Back to the Future' Makeup: 'No One's That Scared Seeing Me Now'

Lea Thompson adores the fact that Back to the Future is one of the most beloved movies of the 1980s. But there’s another reason the actress, now 56, celebrates the contemporary classic about a time-traveling teen Marty McFly that made her a major star in 1985.

“I’m really happy to be mostly known for a part that was great, and a part that I aged in, so no one’s that scared seeing me this age,” Thompson told Yahoo Movies during a Facebook Live interview (watch in full below) while promoting her new directorial effort, The Year of Spectacular Men. “It’s like, ‘We’ve already seen you that age. And you look a little better, so it’s OK.'”

With a few major credits already to her name (Jaws 3-D, All the Right Moves, Red Dawn), Thompson was 23 when she took on the role of Lorraine Baines/Lorraine McFly, mother to Michael J. Fox‘s adolescent wannabe rock star. The first time we see her, of course, is present day 1985, and 47-year-old Lorraine McFly is depressed, unfit, and boozes too much. (Though she’ll look much better once Marty alters the course of history, avoiding 17-year-old Lorraine Baines’s romantic advances in the process, in 1955.)

“They did the best they can, it’s hard to do that kind of makeup,” said Thompson, who sat through three-to-four hours of prosthetic applications a day while on set (or as she exaggerated during the interview, “A hundred years”).

“That’s why they do it in CGI,” Thompson said of the aging techniques that have become so common in movies lately. “That makeup is just hard.”

Watch Yahoo Movies’ full Facebook Live interview with Lea Thompson: 

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10 Classic '80s and '90s Movies That Influence 'Spider-Man: Homecoming'

Tom Holland and Jacob Batalon in Spider-Man: Homecoming (Photo: Sony Pictures)

Warning: This post contains spoilers for key scenes and plot points of Spider-Man: Homecoming.

If you’re a Marvel Comics fan, Spider-Man: Homecoming is a veritable gold mine of Easter eggs from the wall-crawler’s 55-year-and-counting career of catching thieves just like flies. At the same time, it’s equally rich with homages to popular teen movies from the ’80s and ’90s. Even before the film went into production, Marvel Studios chief, Kevin Feige, made a point of describing it as a “John Hughes movie,” directly name-checking the writer and director responsible for so many of that era’s high school classics.

In separate interviews with Yahoo Movies, star Tom Holland explained that director Jon Watts gave the young cast a must-watch list of classic movies to watch before shooting began, while Homecoming  co-writer John Francis Daley elaborated on the Spidey-Hughes connection. “What John Hughes was best at was finding the funny in the relatable… and to keep Peter as a truly normal, grounded, relatable person I think is really set him apart from all the other versions of Spider-Man that people have seen.” Homecoming‘s cinematic influences do extend beyond Hughes, though. Here’s a list of 10 teen favorites that are overtly, or subtly, referenced by Spider-Man and his amazing friends.

Matthew Broderick in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ (Photo: Everett Collection)

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) This one is kind of a gimme; while in hot pursuit of the Vulture’s henchmen, poor Peter Parker (Tom Holland) has to forego his usual web-slinging action due to the fact that he’s in that dreaded low-rise territory known as suburbia. Crashing through backyard after backyard, he passes a pool party where Matthew Broderick’s own climactic backyard chase from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is playing out on a TV screen. “Great movie,” Peter calls out as he continues on to the next yard. (Wonder if he considers Ferris Bueller to be as ancient a film as The Empire Strikes Back?) “That scene is a perfect example of our challenge to take Spider-Man out of a world where he’s comfortable,” director Watts told Yahoo Movies. “If you put him in the suburbs where there’s nothing tall to swing from, what does he do? It was a great opportunity to put him in an awkward situation.”

Judd Nelson and Ally Sheedy in ‘The Breakfast Club’ (Photo: Universal/courtesy Everett Collection)

The Breakfast Club (1985) At a press conference in June, Zendaya revealed that Ally Sheedy’s proto-Goth girl, Allison Reynolds, is a direct ancestor of her Homecoming character, Michelle “M.J.” Jones. And the two do have a lot in common, including a quiet manner that masks a caustic wit, as well as a flair for epic side-eye and eye-rolls. In fact, Michelle is glimpsed sitting in detention alongside Peter — the Anthony Michael Hall of her school — in one memorable Homecoming scene, despite the fact that she’s not even supposed to be there. Speaking with the press, Zendaya made it clear that she hopes modern teens take away the same lesson from Michelle that their parents learned from Allison, namely that: “It’s OK to be weird. If you make things awkward and uncomfortable, that’s cool. I love that Michelle’s outspoken and says what everyone’s thinking, but she just doesn’t care.”

William Zabka and Ralph Macchio in ‘The Karate Kid’ (Photo: Mary Evans/Ronald Grant/Everett Collection)

The Karate Kid (1984) He may not pledge allegiance to Cobra Kai, but Flash Thompson (Tony Revolori) is totally the Johnny Lawrence to Peter’s Daniel LaRusso. Whether calling him “Penis Parker” (itself an indirect shout-out to another ’80s classic, E.T.) or engaging in some decidedly unsportsmanlike trash talk during Academic Decathlon training sessions, Flash is always eager to humiliate his rival on the most public stage possible. But Peter, like LaRusso before him, scores the final knockout, hijacking Flash’s car and leaving him by the side of the road with his homecoming date. Revolori, who previously played the hero of Wes Anderson’s acclaimed 2014 film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, has said that he enjoyed breaking bad in Homecoming, especially since the movie doesn’t make an issue about his race. “The fact that there’s not a single line of exposition to explain why I look the way I look. I’m just in the movie. It’s not about being a certain race, and I think that’s the kind of diversity we need in Hollywood right now.”

Can’t Hardly Wait (1998) If only Peter had re-watched this nostalgic ’90s favorite before heading over to Liz Allan’s shindig, he would have realized that a high school house party is the absolute worst place to try and impress the girl you’ve been crushing on for years. Sure enough, his plan to swing in and make a big splash as Spider-Man is thwarted by an unplanned side mission involving the Shocker. Can’t Hardly Wait‘s Preston (Ethan Embry) is similarly unable to persuade his dream girl, Amanda (Jennifer Love Hewitt), of his affection due to a series of increasingly crazy circumstances. According to Daley, an early version of the storyline involved Peter hosting the party instead of Liz, but is similarly prevented from joining the festivities in costume. “All the cool kids from school burst into his bedroom while he’s gone and just start going through all his s—t, like all the toys he still kept.” Adds Daley’s co-writer, Jonathan Goldstein: “That’s very Hughes-ian, like the characters Anthony Michael Hall used to play. The kid who’s too old to still be doing this stuff.”

Anthony Michael Hall, Kelly LeBrock, Ilan Mitchell-Smith in ‘Weird Science’ (Photo: Universal Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection)

Weird Science (1985) We should probably be glad that geek buddies Peter and Ned (Jacob Batalon) are only applying their serious science and tech skills to making web fluid and hacking Tony Stark-designed super-suits. Otherwise, they might go and do something really weird…like building a cyber-girlfriend who steps out of the computer and into reality. Here’s another fun connection between Weird Science and Homecoming: Robert Downey Jr. is a big ol’ spoilsport in both. Back in ’85, he dropped a red Icee on dorks Gary and Wyatt, and 32 years later, he drops a bomb on Peter by taking away the teen’s Spider-Man suit after his Staten Island Ferry mishap.

Jon Cryer and Molly Ringwald in ‘Pretty in Pink’ (Photo: Paramount / Courtesy: Everett Collection)

Pretty in Pink (1986) High school law eschews the designated dork from taking the pretty girl to the big school dance. But Hughes went and upset the natural order of things by having Duckie (Jon Cryer) swoop in and rescue his best friend and longtime crush object, Andie (Molly Ringwald) from being stood up at the prom by status-conscious Blane (Andrew McCarthy). Truthfully, it was a bridge too far for audiences at the time, who demanded that the ending be reshot with the pretty girls and the popular guy walking off into a happily ever after. For a brief moment, though, Duckie got to be the hero who gets the girl, a geek dream that Peter gets to live out when he asks the significantly more popular Liz to the homecoming dance and she says yes. For better or for worse, he ultimately loses the girl to her villainous dad rather than a petty prepster.

Michael J. Fox in ‘Back to the Future’ (Photo: Universal/courtesy Everett Collection)

Back to the Future (1985) No sooner has he gotten to Hill Valley High’s “Enchantment Under the Sea” dance than Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) has to ditch his date — and future Mom — Lorraine (Lea Thompson) in order to take care of some pressing time travel business. Peter isn’t able to bust a move at his school’s homecoming soiree either, regretfully abandoning Liz on the dance floor in order to thwart her Vulture father’s plot to raid Tony Stark’s airborne storage locker. At least Marty gets to invent rock and roll during his time brief time at the Hill Valley dance; Peter has to bail before he can show off how he can out-Rihanna Rihanna.

Jennifer Connelly and Frank Whaley skate the night away in Career Opportunities (Photo: Universal Pictures)

Career Opportunities (1991) Peter Parker isn’t the only nerd lucky enough to spend a night locked in a facility with Jennifer Connelly. This John Hughes-scripted comedy traps awkward outcast Jim (Frank Whaley) and knockout Josie (Connelly) in a Target store after closing time, where they have to contend with their wildly different backgrounds, as well as a pair of bungling burglars. Midway through Homecoming, Spider-Man’s attempt to foil a Vulture robbery lands him in deep storage inside the U.S. Department of Damage Control, with only his “suit lady,” a.k.a. his in-suit A.I. K.A.R.E.N. (voiced by the Beautiful Mind Oscar winner), for company. We’ll leave it to you to decide whether Target for the Damage Control storage locker has better toys.

Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) Not a teen movie, you say? Perhaps that’s true, but Tim Burton’s feature filmmaking debut is nevertheless an ’80s classic for young kids and teenagers alike. Besides, it can’t be accidental that Spider-Man’s first big victory in Homecoming involves stopping a bicycle thief. And he doesn’t even have to leave Queens to do it! Poor Pee-wee Herman has to travel all the way to Texas to recover his beloved two-wheeled ride. Here’s an eye-popping face-off we want to see in the Homecoming sequel: Spider-Man vs. Large Marge.

 Watch: Tom Holland Wants His Peter Parker to Be This Generation’s Marty McFly:

Get more Spider-Man scoop from Yahoo Movies:

Your Ultimate Guide to the Spider-Man: Homecoming Easter Eggs

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'Back to the Future' DeLorean: From Sketch to Screen… and Beyond!

The 'Back to the Future' DeLorean is on the shortlist of all-time movie cars. Here's a look at how the vehicle went from artist's concepts to Hollywood star, and how a team of superfans, under the supervision of restorers Joe Walser and Terry Matalas, and with the support of producer Bob Gale, painstakingly rebuilt the car for the film's 30th anniversary.

Are You Telling Me That You Built a Time Machine... out of a DeLorean?!

The original screenplay called for the time machine to be in a pickup, but director Robert Zemeckis, in a moment of inspiration, decided to change it to the gull-wing sports car. Some of the original concept art from the Universal archives.

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Exterior Concept

Sketches of front and rear of DeLorean.

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Interior Detail Sketch

The DeLorean cockpit reimagined for skipping through time.

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Interior Sketch

Early design of rear interior of DeLorean.

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Profile Sketch

The Doc Brown-modded DeLorean was retrofitted by various parts scavenged from junkyards but the production designers.

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Time-Travel Sequence

Storyboard showing the time machine in action.

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Time-Travel Storyboard

A more detailed breakdown of how the time-travel effect would be depicted on screen.

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Roads? Where We're Going, We Don't Need Roads...

During production on the film trilogy, the A and B cars were used for main action shots.

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'Back to the Future' Poster

The classic theatrical poster features Michael J. Fox hopping out of the iconic gull-wing DeLorean DMC-12.

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DeLorean Seal of Approval

After seeing the original film in 1985, John DeLorean wrote a letter to producer Bob Gale and producer-director Robert Zemeckis. The automaker called the movie "absolutely brilliant. ... I was particularly pleased that the DeLorean Motor Car was all but immortalized in the film."

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Hero Car on Universal Lot

After production wrapped on the 'Back to the Future' sequels, the A car was stowed on the Universal Studios lot in Hollywood, a fixture for years on the tram tour. But after two decades in the elements, it fell into disrepair.

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Flux Capacitor

The A car's Flux Capacitor remained inside the vehicle. This photo, taken in the '90s, reveals the wear and tear from exposure.

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Stripped Down

After decades of neglect, a team of superfans with the support of producer Bob Gale, meticulously restored the Hero vehicle. First, they completely stripped the car and catalogued all parts.

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Before and After

The restoration team found rat nests in the interior. After they were finished, the car was pristine. Can almost sniff the new-car smell!

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Back in the Future

Here's the completed Hero car before it was moved to its current home, in Universal's on-site museum.

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OUTATIME

The restoration team's work was hailed by producer Bob Gale, who said the car "never looked this good, not even on the first day it rolled out of [the production] shop."

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Hero DeLorean on Display

Restored to its full glory, the Hero vehicle is now proudly displayed in Universal's museum as the movie celebrates its 30th anniversary... and beyond.

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'Spider-Man: Homecoming': Tom Holland Wants New Peter Parker to Be His Generation's Marty McFly

The team behind Spider-Man: Homecoming has long discussed how they approached July’s reboot of the Peter Parker origin story like a John Hughes teen comedy. Director Jon Watts and star Tom Holland told Yahoo Movies about their neo-classic inspirations last year at San Diego Comic-Con, and during a Facebook Live interview with us last week, Holland rattled off a number of titles Watts had suggested he screen before filming: Pretty in Pink, Back to the Future, The Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

The only entry in that batch not written or directed by Hughes was Back to the Future, but it is the one that appears to have resonated the deepest with Holland.

“My goal was to try and kind of be our generation’s Marty McFly,” Holland said of the vest-sporting time traveler so memorably portrayed by Michael J. Fox in the 1985 favorite and its two sequels. “That was what my all-time goal was.”

And like Back to the Future brought heart and charisma to a story that transcended its spiffy sci-fi bells and whistles, Holland is hoping Homecoming will have the same effect.

“I think one of the best things about this movie is if you stripped away all the Spider-Man scenes, there’s a really solid movie there without the superhero aspect, about Peter growing up, going to school, struggling,” he said. “So it’s a nice balance between superhero and kid at high school.”

Spider-Man Homecoming opens July 7.

Watch Tom Holland talk about how Chris Hemsworth helped him land the Spider-Man role:

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Watch 25 Years of Time-Tripping Doc Brown Cameos

We updated our post from May 2014 with some new Lloyd cameos.

Christopher Lloyd won’t leave Doc Brown in the past. The 76-year-old actor still finds regular excuses to reprise his best-loved role — and now that Back to the Future Day is upon us (that being Oct. 21, 2015, the future date our heroes travel to in 1989’s Back to the Future Part II), we have an excuse to revisit all of Lloyd’s Doc Brown cameos. As the timeline below demonstrates, Lloyd has been doing quick cameos as his mad-scientist alter ego for years now, no doubt a lucrative sideline. The the idea of a wacky genius whisking ordinary people through time never gets old — just ask Dr. Who, who’s still popular after 50 years. Dr. Emmett L. Brown’s only been around for 30, but in that time, he’s popped up in sneaker commercials, civic-minded TV specials, casino games, theme park rides, animated shorts, video games, and South American talk shows. Here are the best of Lloyd’s extra-curricular “Great Scott!” moments.

1990: Doc Brown flies into ABC’s two-hour The Earth Day Special, alongside such iconic characters as Murphy Brown, the Huxtable family, the Golden Girls, and the gang from Cheers. In this segment, Brown warns Doogie Howser — who’s attending to an ill Mother Earth, played by Bette Midler — about the dangers of global warming. Couldn’t he have warned Congress, too?

 1991: Back to the Future: The Ride is unveiled at Universal Studios. Technically it’s not a ride, but one of those cutting-edge motion simulators. The good Doc narrates the audience’s journey from Marty McFly’s hometown of Hill Valley, through the ice age, and into an active volcano, all to chase down Biff before he screws up the space-time continuum. Oh, Biff.

 2004: Though he’s avoided the phrase “flux capacitor” for the better part of a decade, Lloyd resurrects Doc Brown for a Back to the Future-branded slot machine. As gamblers spend their coins matching up pixelated electric guitars, bicycles, and pictures of Marty’s mom, Doc pops up to say encouraging things like, “Perhaps that could have gone a little better, but in 1885 dollars, you’re rich!” 

2007: Christopher Lloyd is digitally inserted into his Back to the Future scenes for a DirecTV ad, meaning that future Doc Brown is in present-day Hill Valley, as seen in the past. The timeline may be confusing, but the commercial gets right to the point; Lloyd’s opening line is “Great Scott! I forgot to tell Marty when he gets back to the future, he needs to get DirecTV HD!”

2008: The Back to the Future ride at Universal is replaced by a Simpsons ride. Lloyd pays his respects by voicing a Doc Brown cameo for the new attraction. As park visitors wait in line, they watch Doc have a time-altering encounter with Professor Frink, resulting in the creation of Krustyland. 

2011: Doc Brown resurfaces to promote Nike’s official replica of Marty’s Back to the Future 2 sneakers. In this commercial, Bill Hader is an employee at the film’s Lone Pine Mall, trying to sell the light-up kicks to Kevin Durant, when Lloyd rushes in requesting power laces. Sure enough, Nike is on track to release self-tying laces next year. If Doc Brown says it, you can consider it done. 

2011: You’ve seen Back to the Future’s climactic chase scene, but did you ever wonder how Doc Brown managed to get all that plutonium away from the Libyans in the first place? Robot Chicken answered this question in an episode guest-starring Lloyd. 

2011: The Argentinian TV program CQC, which is like a hallucinatory version of The Today Show, hosts Christopher Lloyd in character. During the awkward interview, Doc Brown is assaulted by an animated boxing glove and struck by lightning.

2013: Doc Brown returns to Robot Chicken for this sketch, in which McFly makes fun of his choice of time machine car. In retrospect, the Batmobile seems like such an obvious choice.

2014: Lloyd does a thirty-second cameo as Doc Brown in Seth MacFarlane’s satirical Western A Million Ways to Die in the West, playing off his Old West jaunt in Back to the Future: Part III. Basically he just says “Great Scott!”, but it’s still a highlight of the critically maligned comedy.

May 2015: Doc Brown comes face-to-face with his own Lego mini figure in this commercial for the LEGO Dimensions game, which features Lloyd’s voice in a Back to the Future expansion pack. It just goes to show: All the best LEGO characters are named Emmet(t).

October 2015: The mad professor finally gets to the be the hero of a Back to the Future film in the new short Doc Brown Saves the World, made exclusively for the 30th Anniversary Blu-Ray and DVD box sets.

Back to the Future photo credit: Everett Collection

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'Back to the Future' Gets the Ultimate Remix

In case you're just now opening the internet, Oct. 21, 2015, is #BacktotheFutureDay, that fateful future date Marty McFly traveled to in 1989's Back to the Future Part II.  

Related: Want More ‘Back to the Future?’ The Trilogy Has Its Own Extended Universe

There's plenty of movie nostalgia out there to indulge in, but if you really want to complete your Future planning, you must check out this new remix by DJ Mike Relm. He's the mastermind behind that sublime Cornetto Trilogy Megamix commissioned by director Edgar Wright to rock Comic-Con a few summers ago (among other gems). As is his forte, Relm proves the ultimate visual scratcher-and-cutter, blending classic lines and scenes from the Back to the Future trilogy into one cohesive sonic boom. And of course, there's a heavy emphasis on the most hip-hop element of BTTF Part II: those self-lacing Nike kicks that the shoe company has teased are coming today. Watch above while the day is still young!

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‘Back to the Future’ Bully Biff Tannen Was Indeed Based On Donald Trump

By Alyssa Fiske

As anyone who has seen Back to the Future knows, Biff Tannen is one bad dude. Things escalate in Back to the Future Part II, after Biff steals the DeLorean and travels back in time to change his life and become “America’s greatest living folk hero.” Biff becomes an ultra-rich, combover-sporting, “God bless America” parroting, misogynist who keeps getting married… hey… this guy sounds awfully familiar…

Related: The Internet Is Having So Much Fun With ‘Back To The Future’ Day

Sorry, haters and losers, but it’s true: Donald Trump was the inspiration for Biff Tannen in Part II. In an interview with The Daily Beast to celebrate “Back to the Future Day,” screenwriter David Gale confirmed your sneaking suspicion that that hairdo was no accident.

“We thought about it when we made the movie! Are you kidding?” he says. “You watch Part II again and there’s a scene where Marty confronts Biff in his office and there’s a huge portrait of Biff on the wall behind Biff, and there’s one moment where Biff kind of stands up and he takes exactly the same pose as the portrait? Yeah.”

Related: ‘Check Out That Four-By-Four!’ — How Two Men Turned Their ‘Back To The Future’ Dreams Into A Reality

In the end, of course, Doc Brown and Marty McFly save the day and send him barreling into a manure truck. Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox reunited for a Toyota ad, so maybe they could team up to defeat Trump, too.

(Via The Daily Beast)