That was literally goingto be gathering atomic energy from a nuclear blast near a...

That was literally going
to be gathering atomic energy from a nuclear blast near a remote
military testing site. Robert Zemeckis eventually
changed the time machine to a DeLorean
before production began, setting off a craze
for the extinct sports car. But the idea of a nuked
refrigerator turned up again years later in another
equally famous movie franchise when George Lucas
and Steven Spielberg finally used the idea in Indiana Jones and The Kingdom
of the Crystal Skull in a notorious scene
that had fans questioning the filmmaker's sanity