For five weeks in the early ’80s, actor Eric Stoltz played skateboarding teenager Marty McFly in Back to the Future before being famously replaced by Michael J. Fox.
Director Robert Zemeckis and producer Steve Spielberg discuss Stoltz’s aborted attempt at sci-fi comedy in the video clip above, a bonus feature included on the
Stoltz, who now plays Cylon creator Daniel Graystone in Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica, briefly appears in the previously unseen Back to the Future footage above as McFly. Stoltz was “a magnificent actor, but his comedy sensibilities were very different,” Zemeckis explains. “And he and I were never able to make that work.”
“[Zemeckis] said, ‘I don’t think we’re getting the laughs that I was hoping we would get,’” says Spielberg. “And I realized he was absolutely correct.”
It was a “horrific decision” to have to make, says Zemeckis, but the pressure was on. Ironically enough, Back to the Future was given a mandate to wrap by a particular date. Zemeckis convinced the studio to let him reshoot five weeks of footage with Fox, and the rest is sci-fi film history.
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