Back To The Future: All The Things You Missed

Published on September 12, 2019 By Jason Albert

Mayor Hobo?

In some of the final moments in the first film, Marty sees the hobo who complains about those ‘crazy drunk drivers’. After that, Marty turns around and refers to him as Red. Well, it turns out that it caused quite a few heads to turn.

Back To The Future
Universal Pictures

Even though it’s claimed that Michael J. Fox improvised the name, there are speculations that he is supposed to be Red Thomas – the major mentioned in 1955. Since the hobo isn’t mentioned by name in the script, we don’t know if it’s true or not!