So I know a lot of you, I shouldn’t say, I know a lot of you, I, some of you are probably tired of my back to the future talk, but this is my podcast. It’s something that I’ve been passionate about my whole life. And I think it’s really interesting. To me now, if you’ve not seen, I don’t expect a lot of you to have seen the movie.
I, I guarantee none of you have seen the movie as, as many times as I have. So I, it’s not like I’m expecting you to know all details. But this is something to where, because this is a very pop culture movie, it is now back in the zeitgeist because the Back to the Future musical has come to the states within the last year.
We are in the 40 year anniversary of the movie coming out when it was released in July of 1985. And now it’s being rereleased in the theaters this upcoming weekend. So a lot of entertainment sites are covering it also because Michael J. Fox has a book coming out called Future Boy. It’s written by Nell Fortenberry, who is the president of his production company.
So I believe the book is out now. Says it was on sale October 14th, and it says pre-order your copy. So when does this thing actually come out? Or maybe it is out. Okay. It was published on October 14th, so it’s been out for two weeks. And because of it, we’re getting stories from the set and stuff like that.
And you know, again, some things that I know because I’m just so entrenched in this movie, maybe the average person doesn’t know. Did you know that Eric Stoltz was Marnie McFly and they filmed for six weeks. They had finished three quarters of the movie with Eric Stoltz, who was very popular back in 1985 as Marty McFly, but then the production production team got together and they just said, Steven Spielberg said, the writer said it just wasn’t working.
Eric Stoltz was taking the role too seriously. If you’ve seen the movie, you know Michael J. Fox had a. Much more of a comedic chop. And they said that Eric Stoltz wasn’t nearly as funny and they wanted to make it a little more lighthearted, and he wasn’t giving that to them. So they replaced him with Michael J.
Fox, who at the time was filming Family Ties, which was one of the top five shows on television, and it was just a crazy schedule. But they wanted him so bad to replace Eric Stoltz, that essentially he filmed family ties during the day and back to the future at night. For weeks on end, guy never slept basically the whole time he was filming both shows or the show and the movie, but.
That’s obviously probably the biggest thing from this movie when you do a, a deep dive into back to the future, like, yeah, Eric Stoltz was Marty McFly for six weeks. If you Google Eric Stolts deleted scenes, or Eric Stoltz, back to the future footage. There are a couple YouTube videos out there that still have no sound in it.
We, we can never hear Eric Stolt acting in the movie, but we see him filming scenes that we know are very famous now because Michael J. Fox filmed them. But it’s just a really interesting dive into this, because back then there was no social media back then. You know, they’re talking about it in the book that it did get out, but it got out in a negative way in that.
You know, if we found out right now if a movie was filming a major motion picture was filming with so and so as the elite actor and they had finished three quarters of filming and then that actor was replaced, a lot of people would say, oh my God, this movie is dead on Arrival. It’s, it’s a bust. There’s so much behind the scenes drama going on, and it would probably hurt its sales.
Whereas it seemed like this had the opposite effect because Michael J. Fox, while Eric Stokes Stoltz was popular back. 1984 when they were filming this, it was, he wasn’t as popular as Michael J. Fox was and obviously this movie catapulted Michael J. Fox into some major stardom, obviously got him two more, uh, sequels to this with back to the Future two and three, but just really, really interesting that people are covering this now.
It’s covered mainly in the book and. I, I just, it’s always been interesting to me, and I, I’ve talked about this in the past when people say like, oh my God, I couldn’t possibly see so and so in that role. ’cause we’ve heard for the, for years other people who auditioned for a certain role, whether it was, I mean, just name anything.
There’s obviously numerous people that go out for certain roles and we only see the finished product of who got the role. And I’ll just throw this out an example. Matt LeBlanc getting the role of Joey Turani for friends. Everybody says, oh my God. Nobody else could have played Joey Turani. Nobody else could have played Chandler Bing, but Matthew Perry.
Well, that’s because you only saw them in the role. If somebody else got the role and we watched friends for whatever, how many seasons was on nine 10, if we watched that show for 10 season with somebody else in the role of Chandler Bing, and then we heard 15, 20 years later that Matthew Perry was up for it, we’d have been like, oh my gosh.
There’s no way Matthew Perry could have played Chandler Bink. So I take that with a grain of salt. But we actually do have footage, and we don’t have any sound footage of Eric Stoltz playing Marty McFly, so we couldn’t compare it. But yeah, when you look at this role, it’s iconic and it is hard to believe that somebody else was playing this role.
For six weeks before being replaced, but my guess is they made the right move. Even though we haven’t seen him and heard him in this role, delivering the lines, talking to Doc and all that stuff. My guess is they knew what they were doing when they said we were looking for more comedic chops, and Eric was taking the role too seriously.
Apparently he’s a method actor and was just way too serious on set. And while it was tough for the other actors to see him go, Marty just stepped right in and he delivered, you know, one of the greatest performances ever in an all time iconic movie. And finally, this, I don’t wanna say breaks my heart, but it is kind of tough to take.
Connie Brit. Has gotten engaged to producer boyfriend at David WinDor after almost six years of dating. Wait, what? When did Tammy and Coach Taylor break up? What, what did nobody inform me of this? They separated and now she’s been dating him. What, what about her and Deacon? Wait, didn’t she die in a car accident?
What? Huh? Yeah. My life has been turned upside down. I thought, I thought Connie Britton was, uh, married to Coach Taylor at some point, and then she was dating Deacon after that, and now she was engaged for almost six years of dating with David WinDor, a producer. Well, they’re engaged now, and I guess Coach Taylor and Tammy Taylor, Eric Taylor and Tammy Taylor are no longer, so we’re somehow going to have to function with the fact that Connie Britton.
Is no longer with Kyle Chandler. Anyway. Thank you all for listening. I really appreciate it. Follow me in Apple Podcast. Also, rate and review, but you gotta hit play. It’s the only way it counts as a download. Sports Daily coming up in an hour from now, so go check that out. Again, thank you all for listening.
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