‘Great Scott!’ It Was 40 Years Ago the DeLorean in ‘Back to the Future’ Drove Onto Our Screens

The iconic movie was released July 3, 1985, and millions of fans are still in love with the films and the DeLorean time machine.

July 3, 2025, marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the first "Back to the Future" film. The destination time in the Franchi family's DeLorean time machine is set to go back and watch the premier. Travis Gillmore/The Epoch Times

“Wait a minute, Doc. Are you telling me that you built a time machine out of a DeLorean?”

It was 40 years ago today, July 3, 2025, that Marty McFly, Michael J. Fox’s character in the “Back to the Future” film franchise, first discovered on the big screen that Dr. Emmet Brown, Christopher Lloyd in a wild-haired scientist role, had invented a time traveling machine.