Back From the Future. Brad Gilmore

was never brought up again. This wasn’t the end of Space Man from Pluto, however. In the 2018 film, A House with a Clock in Its Walls starring Jack Black, there is a reference to the title that never was. During a scene in the movie when the character Lewis gets off the bus and is met by his uncle, Jonathan Barnavelt (Jack Black), the two walk past a movie theater showing a fictional film called, you guessed it, Spaceman from Pluto.

      Once the film was released on July 3, 1985, movie-going audiences fell in love with the picture. Once the audience saw the iconic DeLorean time machine for the first time, it was all she wrote. Back to the Future fired on all cylinders due to a great script that paid off when paired with a wonderfully talented and funny cast, a brilliant director overseeing every aspect of the film, and phenomenal music underscoring all of this. The score of the film was conducted by Alan Silvestri, who went on to score the Avengers films in the MCU, captured the essence and spirit of the film with his dynamic and cinematic score. Most movies in the 1980s were being scored by what Zemeckis refers to as “the box.” Films such as Beverly Hills Cop or Fletch had scores that were electronic and echoed the era, but Zemeckis wanted his time travel epic to have an epic feel to it, which is exactly what Silvestri brought to the project.

      To add a little bit of rock ‘n’ roll to the movie, Huey Lewis and The News were brought on to write two songs for the film. “The Power of Love” and “Back in Time” were the two cuts that Lewis and his band came up with, and they both worked wonderfully for the story. Lewis also shot a cameo for the film where he tells Marty’s band, The Pinheads, that they were “just too darn loud” as they played the opening riffs to their rendition of “Power of Love.”