1. Robert Zemeckis filmed "What Lies Beneath" while waiting for Tom Hanks to lose weight and grow beard for "Cast Away". (Source)
2. Robert Zemeckis was so frustrated with the cliffhanger ending of The Empire Strikes Back that he purposely put the trailer & release date for Back to the Future 3 at the end of Back to the Future 2 so that the audience would know that the story would be completed in six months. (Source)
3. Director Robert Zemeckis, who has approval over all films in the Back to the Future franchise, says that he will block all attempts to remake or reboot the original film. (Source)
4. Sidney Sheinberg wanted to change the title of Back To The Future to 'Spaceman From Pluto'. Robert Zemeckis, horrified, asked Steven Spielberg for help, so Spielberg wrote Sheinberg a memo convincing him that they thought his title was just a joke, embarrassing him into dropping the name change. (Source)
5. Believing that Romancing the Stone would flop, Studio Execs pre-emtively fired Robert Zemeckis from directing Cocoon. Allowing him to go forward with his own prject, Back to the Future. (Source)
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6. Back to the Future filmed for five weeks with Eric Stoltz playing Marty Mcfly. Director Robert Zemeckis disliked his style of humor so much they threw away the five weeks of filming and $3 million dollars to recast with Michael J. Fox. (Source)
7. Robert Zemeckis, spread a rumor that hoverboards were in fact real, but not marketed because they were deemed too dangerous by parents' groups. These rumors have been conclusively debunked.(Source)
8. Robert Zemeckis, the director of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, was originally turned down the role of director because "Disney acknowledged his previous films were box office bombs."(Source)
9. Robert Zemeckis is making a 3D adaptation of The Beatles animated film "Yellow Submarine"(Source)
10. Robert Zemeckis used Alan Ritchson's (Thad from Blue Mountain State) facial image, body physic, & movement for Ray Winstone as Beowulf (Source)
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