Note: Please do not comment "Elsa Raven passed away in November 2, 2020" because this was way before that happened. Do not mention "He (Eric Stoltz) was formerly casted" either.
Announced on an unknown date, the science fiction comedy film Back To The Future was in the works for quite some time, but originally Eric Stoltz was planned to fill out the role of Marty himself.
Plot[]
The plot would be the same as the 1985 film of the same name, but Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly instead of Michael J. Fox.
Development[]
Back To The Future assumingely started production around the 1980s. 20th Century Fox dreamed of casting Michael J. Fox in the film, but were unable to as Fox had a fair commitment with the television sitcom Family Ties. So Robert Zemeckis asked Eric Stoltz to play the role.
In 2008 via the The Opie And Anthony radio show, Bob Gale has stated that they may not release the Eric Stoltz footage as they didn't want to embarrass him with them. Though this was later contradicted in 2015 in the documentary Back In Time, as Robert Zemeckis mentioned that the full length tapes containing the footage of Stoltz in the film still exist and were not destroyed, and may one day be released.[1]
Why This Version Was Cancelled[]
- Robert Zemeckis felt that Eric Stoltz wasn't playing much of the type of comedy that the role required, having no other choice but to fire him.
Results[]
- The Eric Stoltz version of Back To The Future was permanently cancelled. As of 2015 though, a lot of Stoltz's video clip performances have surfaced.
- In 2010, for the 25th-anniversary release of the film on Blu-ray and DVD, several silent and non silent fragments of Stoltz playing Marty were included as part of a new documentary about the first film on the discs.
- Back To The Future released in 1985 with Michael J. Fox instead to positive reviews and instantly became a classic.
Trivia[]
- In The Flash, this movie is referenced since, in Young Barry's universe, Eric Stoltz got the role of Marty McFly.
- The scene where Marty punches Biff in the 1950s cafe was rumored to have used footage from Stoltz's performance, but this was debunked by the film's editor Harry Keramidas in an interview for the Netflix docuseries The Movies that Made Us, stating that the scene was reshot and that the person playing Marty was a stunt double.[2]
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