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1. Writer and producer Bob Gale came up with the idea for the movie while looking through his father's high school yearbooks during a visit with family and discovering his dad was the president of his graduating class. As he put it to Esquire, "I wondered whether I would have been friends with my dad in high school."
2. For years, multiple studios passed on the script, more than 40 rejections in total. Among them: Disney, with Gale claiming they said, "Are you guys out of your minds? You can't make a movie like this here. This is Disney, and you're giving us a movie about incest!"
3. Not a fan of the title, Universal Pictures head Sid Sheinberg suggested the name be changed to Spaceman From Pluto.
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