BTTF.com given early preview of upcoming site
Universal Studios Home Video recently provided BTTF.com with an exclusive look at the soon-to-be-launched promotional website for the Back to the Future Trilogy DVD release in December.
Late last week, our friends over at Universal handed me the keys to their virtual DeLorean time machine to take a test drive through an online version of Hill Valley, and I must say that Universal and their development team has done an exceptional job with this highly anticipated website!
Universal's official DVD website will be quite a thrill for fans across the globe when it officially opens next month. The site — launching sometime before the end of October — will provide fans access to online scripts, storyboards, one-sheet posters, materials from unused ideas, chats, contests, and much more.
Visitors to the broadband-enhanced site will assume the role of Marty McFly, traveling through time in the DeLorean to visit all of the time periods visited throughout the film trilogy. Along the way, you'll find photo galleries, video libraries, and behind-the-scenes materials, and a few surprises relative to the time period currently being visited. You'll also be able to preorder the DVD & video sets if you've not already done so.
Universal has made great efforts to make the site accurate right down to the tiniest of details that Back to the Future™ fans are notorious for noticing. Without a doubt, it'll be a tremendous compliment to the classic film trilogy, and just like the DVDs, I think you'll all be quite pleased with the results of the website. Your continued patience will soon pay off, so stay tuned...
"Crazy drunk novelist!!" BTTF actor writes a book
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| Buck Flower (right) promoting his book with actor Charles Napier (left) at a recent Barnes & Noble book signing. |
We know him as the drunken bum Marty briefly encounters in 1985 who utters only six words in Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II combined. Now the veteran genre actor has gotten very talkative — George 'Buck' Flower has co-authored a novel with fellow actor Charles Napier called Red Necks in Love.
The book, currently available from PublishAmerica.com, is a comedic story about a fastidious young Law School graduate from Boston sent to a rural and extremely remote area that very few in America have ever heard of — the land of the Red Neck. The hero of the story finds himself being chased by ruffians armed with chainsaws, encounters a couple of 'Good ole' boys' with a pet alcoholic pig, and the insanity insues. [Thanks to 'Robert Gibbons' for the link and photo!]
