USHE Press Release: Back To The Future Trilogy (4k UHD) (1 Viewer)

[Ronald Epstein]

In your opinion would 'Back to the Furture' be as iconic, and memorable if Eric Stoltz kept his role in the film?

No way of knowing, but I don't think so. It is one of those magic films in which an actor makes it great. Michael J Fox was that magic.

Agreed. Stoltz was replaced if I am correct because he lacked charisma and comic flair

 

[Bryan^H]

The only downside is that Eric Stoltz was a better match in physical appearance as the son of Crispin Glover, and Lea Thompson. So in that respect the casting was very good.

 

[Colin Jacobson]

The only downside is that Eric Stoltz was a better match in physical appearance as the son of Crispin Glover, and Lea Thompson. So in that respect the casting was very good.

# of people in 1985 who cared about that: 0.

# of people in 2023 who care about that: 1, apparently!

 

[TravisR]

I think Back To The Future would still have been a hit with Eric Stoltz (the script, direction, rest of the cast & music would have still all been great) but I think Michael J. Fox's performance was the final ingredient that made the movie an all-time great.

 

[jayembee]

I confess that I simply cannot picture in my mind Eric Stolz doing Chuck Berry's duck-walk.

 

[TravisR]

I confess that I simply cannot picture in my mind Eric Stolz doing Chuck Berry's duck-walk.

This just made me re-evaluate my previous post. There is a reason that Zemeckis, Gale and Spielberg were able to convince Universal to recast and reshoot a decent chunk of the movie so maybe it wasn't working with Stoltz in the role.

 

[Jake Lipson]

The Eric Stoltz issue is discussed at length in We Don't Need Roads, Caseen Gaines' excellent book about the making of the trilogy. He does a much better job explaining it than I could and had interviews with everyone involved in that situation except Stoltz. I would highly recommend the book for anybody interested.

 

[Bryan^H]

The Eric Stoltz issue is discussed at length in We Don't Need Roads, Caseen Gaines' excellent book about the making of the trilogy. He does a much better job explaining it than I could and had interviews with everyone involved in that situation except Stoltz. I would highly recommend the book for anybody interested.

I didn't know about this. Thanks.

 

[Jake Lipson]

 

[Sam Favate]

We (finally) showed these movies to our kids over the weekend, after years of wanting to. As predicted, they were huge hits. They couldn’t wait to watch the second, and then the third.