Back to the Future II (set in 2015) was wildly divergent from the 1985 present in the film, with flying cars and other advanced technology, but the actual 2015 was very similar to 1985—cars were slightly different, phones didn't exist, but the built environment looked nearly the same.
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“The 2015 future did have Biff Tannen as a Donald Trump-like figure in some kind of power. So it had some kind of prescience. But yeah, the big, the big noticeable thing is just how different the built environment looks.”
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