Meantime, while the Cubs play host to the Mets in Game 4 of the NL Championship Series that night, Gale will attend a cast reunion at a screening in New York alongside actors Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Lea Thompson and soundtrack musician Huey Lewis. "Back to the Future Part II" also returns to theaters Wednesday for one day to mark the 1989 movie's flash forward to Oct. It all adds up to sweet marketing serendipity for Universal Pictures, which just happens to be releasing the Back to the Future 30th Anniversary Trilogy on Blu-ray and DVD on Tuesday.
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The second prediction, people don't automatically realize when they watch the movie today, but we were predicting there would be a major league team in Miami." "It's a double joke because they win the World Series against Miami - which major league baseball in 1989.
"What better way to give him the idea than with a really outrageous scenario, which is the Cubs win the World Series?" Gale said by telephone Friday. Fox, gets the idea from another character of going back in time to make money on sports betting.
Gale said the prediction grew out of the plotline in which primary character Marty McFly, famously played by Michael J. In a sport where players and fans believe in curses, jinxes and superstitions, maybe it's not so crazy to think a movie has somehow spurred the Cubs to the brink of history. That's because the 1989 movie "Back to the Future Part II" predicted the Cubs would win the 2015 World Series, and the man who wrote the screenplay and imagined this unlikely scenario is Bob Gale, a lifelong St. If the Chicago Cubs end their 107-year championship drought this season, they might owe some of the credit to a fan of their biggest rival. 'Back to the Future' writer, a Cardinals fan, discusses prediction of Cubs winning 2015 World Series You have reached a degraded version of because you're using an unsupported version of Internet Explorer.įor a complete experience, please upgrade or use a supported browser