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Michael J Fox brought his family out for the A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To Cure Parkinson’s event and I can’t get over how much his son Sam looks like his pops. Seriously it is like going Back to the Future and seeing the 22 year as his dad in Family Ties, the show that introduce his father to his mother!
Not only is their son a chip off the old block, how beautiful are their 16 year old twins Aquinnah and Schuyler?
You have all heard that Eric Stoltz originally played Martin McFly when Back to the Future started filming, but then he was replaced by Michael J Fox. What we didn’t know up until now is that they always had Fox in mind for the role, but his Family Ties EP Gary Goldberg wouldn’t let Alex P Keaton time off to film the movie according to what he told David Letterman. So Fox wound up filming Teen Wolf instead. Well when things didn’t work out for the red headed actor, Fox stepped into those famous sneakers.
So I wonder if Fox could go into the DeLorean today if he would go back to the day when Goldberg nixed his part in the film and make sure he had it from the get. But if he did that than that would probably mean he never would’ve done Teen Wolf and that role might’ve gone to Eric Stoltz instead. So if Stoltz played Teen Wold, would that mean that Jason Bateman never would’ve done Teen Wolf 2. And if Bateman never did that movie, what else would we never have seen him? I guess the Butterfly Effect would change so much of what we have gotten to known…
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Mary Steenburgen, Christopher Lloyd, Robert Zemeckis, Michael J. Fox and Lea Thompson were reunited for the release of the 25th anniversary edition of Back to the Future on DVD and Blu-ray that is out today and they all look like they did when they were in the trilogy. It is nice to see Christopher Lloyd, 72 with his movie wife Mary Steenburgen, 57 together again, but is anyone else weirded out by seeing Lea Thompson, 49 with her head resting like that on her head Marty McFly aka Michael J Fox, 49 aka her movie son’s shoulder like that. There is something so wrong about that.
BTW anyone else bummed that Eric Stoltz didn’t photobomb the event?
Back to the Future’s Michael J. Fox, Lea Thompson and Elisabeth Shue are reuniting for Scream 2010 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their movie and Marty McFly shot a promo for awards show. Seeing him back in the DeLorean for the ad makes me think he could do just same for a fourth movie! I think we need a Back to the Future 4, don’t you? But until then we can enjoy them on October 19 at their mini-reunion on Spike TV’s Scream Awards!
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It is widely known that Eric Stoltz was the original Marty McFly in Back to the Future, but until now we have never seen him in the role or knew the real reason why Michael J Fox replaced him. I had always heard the rumor that Eric quit the movie because he thought after Mask (I love love love that movie and thought Cher and him deserved Oscars for it) that he was going to be a big serious movie star and this movie was going to ruin that plan. Well that rumor is wrong because in the special features in the upcoming release of Back to the Future 25th Anniversary Trilogy DVD that is going to be released exactly 24 years after the movie came out on October 26, 1986, we learn the real reason why he was not in the movie. Robert Zemeckis said that after 5 weeks of filming he was not getting the laughs he had hoped for from Stoltz and made the difficult decision with Steven Spielberg to recast the role. I have often wondered how Back to the Future would have done with him the movie and I don’t think it would’ve done as well with him as the lead as compared to Fox.
I wonder if the red headed actor is going to make a statement about being let go from the movie now that the truth is out there? He has talked about not being in the movie in the past, but he has never really said much about how he felt about being fired from one of the biggest movie franchises of all time.
