Executives at Disney, however, weren’t too fond of the idea of Marty McFly constantly having to fight off the advances of his mother, calling it “incest” before rejecting the pitch.
But even with a stellar idea and a well-written script Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale still had a hard time finding a studio willing to produce Back To The Future.
Several of the studios they pitched the idea to said it was too family friendly and that they would be better off taking it to Disney.