He was at the Screamfest premiere of The Girl in the Photograph, for which he had done the cinematography. When casting the role of Marty McFly in the famous science fiction film, Back to the Future, actor Michael J. Eric Stoltz just might be best remembered for a movie he didn't star in. He was famously cast as Marty McFly in Back to the Future, but fired after … Fox was the first choice for the role. Back to the Future Co-Creator Tackles Long-Held Fan Theory. However, Fox was filming a TV show called Family Ties , and the show's producer, Gary David Goldberg, refused to let Fox off of the show, as Fox was considered crucial to the show's success. Back to the Future was not only a massive hit but stands as one of the few film trilogies where it is generally agreed all three movies were good. There was one character that Stoltz didn’t get to play though – well, not for any more than a few weeks – time-travelling Marty McFly. In an interview with the Seattle Times, ... Marty's mother, because "they were looking at Eric Stoltz for Marty McFly, ... "We didn't want to make Eric feel bad." Fox) travels to the future at the end of the original/beginning of Back to the Future II — we present a brand new batch of wild behind-the-scenes stories about the classic franchise courtesy of producer and writer Bob Gale and co-star Lea Thompson. In the week we celebrate Back to the Future Day — 21 October is the day Marty McFly (Michael J. Bob Gale has done some detective work to see if Eric Stoltz did make it into a few frames of Back to the Future. Perhaps he was remembering the evening of … Back to the Future co-creator Bob Gale explains why the Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly footage hasn't been released...and won't be anytime soon. https://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/new-again-eric-stoltz 28. Years later, when Eric Stoltz was asked to reflect on his time working on Back to the Future, the actor recounted that it felt like a long winter. Near three weeks into filming the Robert Zemeckis directed “Back to the Future”, the studio’s original choice for the lead role, TV … Back to the Future Interview: Dean Cundey on 1.85:1 and Eric Stoltz During the week of Back to the Future 30th Anniversary events, I ran into Dean Cundey in a rather unexpected place. +Wizard World Philadelphia 2016, Back to the Future Reunion Panel (Michael J.