Injuries do occur on film sets, this is nothing new. The BTTF Part 2 Stunt That Went Way Wrong Instead, fearing losing his cash cow TV star to film, Goldberg hid the script and Fox didn’t even know Back to the Future was happening until he happened to cross paths with BTTF’s location scouts while on the set of Teen Wolf! It wasn’t until after Stoltz was let go that Goldberg was finally persuaded to show the script to Fox.Ģ. Zemeckis’ good friend, and mentor, Steven Spielberg, called Family Ties producer Gary David Goldberg and asked that Fox read the script. However, what was revealed in We Don’t Need Roads that changed my perspective on history (at least Back to the Future’s history) is that Robert Zemeckis wanted Michael J. The failed Eric Stoltz experiment has become the stuff of behind-the-scenes legend. Fox was not the first actor cast to play Marty McFly. Fox WAS the First Choice for Marty McFly!īy now, it is widely known that Michael J. Below are 15 of the myriad factoids culled from Caseen’s fan opus that were unexpected bolts of lightning to this writer’s mental clock tower.ġ.
His research is exhaustive, amounting to almost two years of work and over 500 hours of interviews with everyone from Robert Zemeckis and the cast to crew members, stunt performers, and the world’s biggest BTTF fans.Įven if you are a hardcore fan, this book can at times feel like a revelation like hitting-one’s-head-on-the-edge-of-a-toilet-and-suddenly-understanding-flux-capacitors revelations. Without adding too much bias here, which frankly is my wont to do given that this is my damned article, Gaines flat out gets it. Plume books has just published We Don’t Need Roads: The Making of the Back to the Future Trilogy by author Caseen Gaines. If you too have felt this slightly intangible connection that heightened your enjoyment of, and fostered your endearing love for, this film series, you will be pleased to know that there is once again cause to go back to Back to the Future. To wit, the sci-fi blockbuster thrill ride masks a far more deeply introspective experience for each member of the audience. The movies themselves are about careful investigation of an individual’s history and how that history influences their eventual legacy. It’s not simply a matter of thirty years having passed since the first film’s release and the young fans of the movie now raising young fans of their own.
Back to the Future is the film franchise best suited for nostalgia.
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