It was also a major star vehicle for Fox, who went on to appear in the movie's two sequels. Fox) accidentally time-travels back to the '50s and interferes with his parents' first meeting, went on to earn millions worldwide and received four Oscar nominations. The movie, in which '80s teenager Marty McFly (Michael J. Since it was released in July 1985, " Back to the Future" has solidified itself as a sci-fi classic. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.Most of the cast members still act as well.Fox has had guest roles in a number of shows in recent years, including "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "The Good Wife," and "Survivor.".Fox as Marty McFly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time and interferes with his parents' lives.
The classic '80s sci-fi movie "Back to the Future" first hit theaters in July of 1985.Fox and Christopher Lloyd starred in 1985's "Back to the Future." But many of them kept stopping and messing up the shot, meaning 20 crew members had to sit off-camera setting them off with switches and pulleys the millisecond each take began.Michael J. Twenty "clock wranglers" were needed for the first sceneīack to the Future's opening is a panning shot of Doc Brown's workshop, showing dozens of clocks all showing the exact same time. The Ghostbusters theme would be very different without itĪ few months after Huey Lewis and the News recorded The Power of Love for the Back to the Future soundtrack, they were asked by Columbia Pictures to write the theme to Ghostbusters. The $50,000 cheque they agreed to write possibly helped.
But it was written without Berry's permission, and the rocker kept Zemeckis and Gale waiting until the day of filming to give them the go-ahead. The script called for Marty McFly to pick up a guitar at the school dance and invent rock'n'roll by playing Johnny B Goode. Those performances aren't near the magnitude of the movies, but I find them enjoyable and satisfying, so that's the area of my concentration." I don't talk about the movies much because I'm busy with standup comedy and music performances. "Love is more important than material possessions. Eric Stoltz originally played Marty, but was fired due to performance issues. Crispin Glover is unusual, but not as unusual as he sometimes presents himself. I was in all three Back to the Future movies. As revealed by Letters of Note, the note begins as follows: "I’m Tom Wilson. When accosted by fans, the actor formerly known as Biff simply hands over a 400-word typed postcard containing the answers to all the questions they're bound to ask. Tom "Biff" Wilson gets asked the same questions a lot In case you're curious, Glover currently lives alone in a 15-room mansion in Prague. So it may surprise absolutely nobody to learn that when Lea Thompson was invited to his apartment for an evening of line-reading during filming, she found his home painted entirely black, devoid of furniture and with a stainless steel operating table in the middle of the living room. Crispin Glover's home looked exactly as you'd imagineĪfter playing George McFly in Back to the Future, the eccentric actor carved out a niche making gruelling, semi-pornographic outsider art films, performing one-man dance shows, and touring the world with a PowerPoint presentation called Crispin Hellion Glover’s Big Slide Show. When told that his co-star had been let go, the actor playing Doc Brown reportedly said: "Who's Eric?" Stoltz had been referred to as "Marty" throughout the production, and it transpired that Lloyd believed that was his real name. Christopher Lloyd didn't know Stoltz's name All the young actors wanted to be like De Niro and Pacino, which was good in a lot of ways."ĥ. It was a time when we were emerging from the Seventies. As co-star Lea Thompson puts it in Gaines's book: "Eric is such a different actor and he could be very difficult. Although Stoltz had learnt to play guitar and was a pretty good skateboarder, he just couldn't do physical comedy – the "Daffy Duck humour", as Spielberg called it.
So filming began with Eric Stoltz, and the director quickly realised he was woefully miscast.
Michael J Fox was Zemeckis's first choice to play Marty McFly, but Fox, then starring in the sitcom Family Ties, couldn't make room in his TV schedule. Steven Spielberg reportedly nixed this idea, worried that kids would copy Marty and become trapped inside the family refrigerator. In an early version of the script, the time-travel device was driven towards an atomic blast while strapped to a fridge, with Marty McFly climbing inside to escape the blast. But Back to the Future almost did it first. The movie equivalent of TV's jumping the shark, the phrase was coined after Indiana Jones shielded himself from a nuclear bomb by hiding in a fridge, and has now become shorthand for a ridiculous, logic-defying plot device.