If you sat down to watch "Back to the Future II" on Wednesday in celebration of Back to the Future Day, you may have noticed some eerie similarities between the alternate-1985 universe version of Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson) and a certain Republican presidential candidate with a penchant for self-promoting and building giant hotels and casinos. And it turns out that that's no accident: The writer of the flick has just confirmed that Tannen is, in fact, based on Donald Trump.
In an interview with The Daily Beast, "Back to the Future" series screenwriter Bob Gale was asked about some of the parallels of modern day Trump and the 1985 version of Biff in "BTTF2." Gale revealed that not only did he and his fellow filmmakers agree with those parallels, but that Trump was actually inspiring them at the time they were working on the flicks in the '80s.
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In an interview with The Daily Beast, "Back to the Future" series screenwriter Bob Gale was asked about some of the parallels of modern day Trump and the 1985 version of Biff in "BTTF2." Gale revealed that not only did he and his fellow filmmakers agree with those parallels, but that Trump was actually inspiring them at the time they were working on the flicks in the '80s.
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- 10/22/2015
- by Katie Roberts
- Moviefone
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