Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ism70.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ism70!steven From: steven@ism70.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Re: Zemeckis movies Message-ID: <13100131@ism70.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 08:37:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ism70.13100131 Posted: Fri Aug 16 08:37:00 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 21:34:28 EDT References: <3420@garfield.UUCP> Lines: 44 Nf-ID: #R:garfield:-342000:ism70:13100131:000:1334 Nf-From: ism70!steven Aug 16 08:37:00 1985 Field of Honor This is a student film that Zemeckis and his partner Bob Gale made while they were at USC. Steven Spielberg saw it and forced Universal Pictures to make: I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) which was their first feature. It's about five teenagers from New Jersey who road trip to New Yawk to see the Beatles perform on the historic Ed Sullivan Show. Starred Susan Newman (Paul's daughter), Bobby DiCicco, Nancy Allen, Eddie Deezen and Marc (Jimmy Olsen) McClure. 1941 (1979) Zemeckis and Gale wrote this for Spielberg to direct. Used Cars (1980) A great comedy. Starred Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Gerritt Graham and Frank McRae as unscrupulous used car salesmen in Phoenix. Fifty bucks never killed anybody. Died at the box office. From Columbia Pictures. Romancing the Stone (1984) Zemeckis was going to direct Cocoon next. But Twentieth Century Fox insisted he be replaced. On the other hand, they let Michael Douglas hire Zemeckis to direct what turned out to be 20th's biggest moneymaker of 1984. Starred Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas. Back to the Future (1985) Their next project is: The Shadow Based on the radio serial character created by Walter Gibson. To quote Zemeckis "A cross between Dracula and Indiana Jones" In preparation now at Universal Studios. No cast set yet.