With their win, the cubs are the first team to come back from a 31 deficit and win games 6 and 7 on the road since the 1979 pirates. Belushi plays jimmy dworski, a man in jail for grand theft auto who breaks out after winning tickets to see the cubs in the world series. Chicago cubs world series win will soon be a movie. They came close, but not quite after losing the 2015 national league championship series in a sweep the cubs came back in 2016 and dominated the season with the best record in baseball. Chicagos divisionseries win brings cubs a step closer to 1989 films 2015 reality. They then ousted the giants in the nl division series and beat the dodgers in the nl championship series to reach the world series against the indians, who opened a 31 lead in the bestofseven series. Time to grab your hoverboard and selflacing trainers as we take a look at the back to future predictions which really did come true. There is still a chance the cubs could win the world series in 2015.
Chicago cubs win the world series back to the future ii. Part ii that poked fun at their inability to win the world series. Back to the future cocreator bob gale explains why he had the chicago cubs winning the 2015 world series in back to the future part ii. Things have barely settled from the excitement and resolve of the original back to. Back to future ii writer discusses cubs prediction. The 1989 movie back to the future part ii predicted the cubs would win the 2015 world series, and the man who wrote the screenplay and imagined this unlikely scenario is bob gale, a. In the back to the future series, one of the many wild predictions included the chicago cubs winning the world series on october 21, 2015. Ap photofrank franklin ii the chicago cubs are a team of destiny. The cubs drought is such a cruel joke that when back to the future part ii came out in 1989, the prospect of the team winning a world series was. Fox surveys the hill valley of the future, marveling at of its technologies. The chicago cubs world series drought was only 81 years long in 1989 when back to the future part ii hit movie theaters with another installment of doc browns and marty mcflys time. Chicago cubs take on mets on back to the future day. Back to the future predicted this world series, sort of.
Louis and after we lost the first game i thought what is this cubs curse thing. One of the funnier or at least seemingly farfetched futurerelated jokes of back to the future hinged on the fact that perennially beatendown chicago cubs were in. Alongside the cubs winning the world series, and selflacing shoes being a real and. Cardinals fan wrote cubs winning world series in back to. The 1987 film back to the future ii correctly predicted that the florida marlins would win the 1997 world series and that the cubs would play florida in the 2015 world series. Back to the future part 2 212 movie clip hill valley.
Chicago cubs world series win has ruined a back to the. Back to the future ii predicted the cubs would win the. Chicago cubs win the world series back to the future ii christian battle. Back to the future day has been a whirlwind extravaganza. A full 2020 digital movie rental calendar a guide to when you can rent the way back, sonic the hedgehog, the king of staten island, and other new releases. When it comes to this years world series, cubs fans are certainly hoping that theres something to the 1989 movie s prediction that their team would finally end its championship drought in. It didnt happen in 2015, but once again back to the future gets it mostly right. Could the back to the future part ii cubs prediction. After a game 7 nailbiter, chicago cubs win 2016 world series against cleveland indians. The advent of the fax machine felt like the future when back to the future part ii was made, but in the time since, the internet happened, and the only place youre likely to find one now. Chicago cubs fans hold world series hopes based on back to the future prediction you dont have to believe everything hollywood says, but cubs fans do.
Soon afterward, an urban legend arose that back to the future part ii had predicted that a team from miami would win the world series in 1997. Chicago cubs fans hold world series hopes based on back. The cubs winning the world series and president trump. Only five other clubs have come back from a 31 deficit to win the title since the fall classic officially moved to a 232 format in 1925. Back to the future cubs win 2016 world series youtube. In back to the future part ii, the character terry, played by charles fleischer, tells mcfly that he wishes he could go back in time and bet on the cubs to win the world series at 100to1 odds. The chicago cubs are one step closer to the 2015 world series after winning the nlds, which means that the back to the future part ii prophecy is very close to becoming reality in the movie. Cubs predicted as 2015 world series champs part one takes place in october 1985, so were going to jump ahead to 2015, and theres no bigger sports event in october than the world series, and there was no more insane, outrageous, unbelievable thing to have happen than to have the cubs win it, gale says with a laugh. By now, youve probably watched back to the future ii and know the scene in the 1989 movie where marty mcfly realizes the cubs won the 2015 world series. You know, there really is, like a 14 to 1 possibility. The classic flick predicted the end of the chicago cubs epic pennant drought, and, possibly, donald trumps rise on the political scene.
The chicago cubs hadnt won the world series since 1908, so it was an amusing prediction to make in back to the future part ii in 1989 that theyd win the world series in 2015. Back to the future writer bob gale on cubs world series. When the cubs pulled out a dramatic 87, 10inning victory over the indians in game 7 of the world series at progressive field on wednesday night, they not only ended a 108year championship drought but also joined a select group of neversaydie teams. According to the news, of course, the miami team will lose the 2015 series.
No one enjoyed the cubs world series win more than bill murray. Did back to the future predict this years world series. Back to the future actor makes prediction chicago cubs will win world series duration. The florida marlins team began play in miami in 1993, and won the world series in 1997. Chicago twentysix years after its theatrical release, back to the future part ii still resonates with chicago cubs fans because it depicted the team as world series champion in 2015. Back to the future part 2 212 movie clip hill valley, 2015 1989 hd. Part 2, michaels character, marty mcfly, time travels to october 21, 2015, where he discovers to his bewilderment that the baseball team had finally won the world series. Did back to the future ii predict the 2015 world series. Back to the future ii correctly predicted cubs world.
Things are so crazy in the faroff world of 2015 that the chicago cubs win the world series. Twentysix years after back to the future ii hit cinemas, the films prediction that the chicago cubs would win the 2015 world series might actually come true. According to back to the future ii, which takes place in 2015, the chicago cubs are world series winners. Michael j fox says back to the future predicted chicago. Its just so apt that they happened to make their comeback so close to back to the future iis prediction. The cubs need to win four of five games to make it to the world series and keep a back to the future part ii prediction alive. Did back to the future predict the cubs would win world. Screenwriter bob gale admitted as much to the hollywood reporter, revealing that the chicago cubs triumph has now forever ruined a joke in back to the future. Back to the future ii almost predicted the cubs world.
Well, the movie back to the future, part ii did predict that the cubs would not only be in the world series in 2015 but actually winone year late, but thats pretty prophetic. Back to the future predicted baseball team the chicago cubs would end their world series drought and missed out by just a year on wednesday night. Back to the future missed the cubs win by just a year. Cardinals fan wrote cubs winning world series in back to the future 2 famously, the cubs win the 2015 world series in back to the future 2. Sorry to burst the bubbles of cubs fans, back to the future fans and fans of sheer randomness, but ive got some bad news for you. Louis, mo ktvi a lot of people are rooting for the chicago cubs because of a prediction made in the movie back to the future ii. When the movie back to the future ii came out in 1989, the joke was selfevident. Back to the future part ii predicted that the cubs would win the 2015 world series, but the team may be eliminated on a day designed to celebrate the film. Man predicts chicago cubs 2016 world series win in yearbook over 20 years. In 1989, when back to the future part ii came out, the chicago cubs had not won a world series in 81 years and miami did not have a major league baseball franchise. The movie was released in 1989, the same year that i started working in the channel. Whats most amazing about the cubs win, though, is not just the general fact that they broke their overcentury long streak, but they did it only a year after it was predicted to happen in 1989s back to the future ii. Cubs will win world series in 2015 back to the future.