Back to the Future (1985) (feat. Scott Thompson)

We’re going to the past with Back to the Future (1985) in our first-ever episode about time travel. Hannah takes the lore reins this week and breaks Cullen’s brain with all sorts of time travel physics, philosophy and paradoxes. With our grad school professor, screenwriter Scott Thompson, we unravel the time travel rules of the Back to the Future universe, 

 

Be sure to follow @freemartin.short on Instagram to see more about the short film Scott and his child Hayes are writing and producing! You can also read more about the story in the article “Screenplay Script Writing & Short Film Anatomy: Free Martin” on Shore Scripts.

 

Research for this episode:

• “A brief history of time travel” - Oliver Franklin-Wallis on Wired
• Flux Capacitor: The Real Science Behind Back to the Future - GiantFreakingRobot
• Time travel - Wikipedia
• Time dilation - Wikipedia
• Delorean time machine - Wikipedia

 

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Research & Writing by Cullen Callaghan and Hannah Sylvester

This episode was edited by Hannah Sylvester.

 

Cover Art by William Callaghan

Intro Music: "The Quest" by Scott Little.