Michael J. Fox Returns For Back To The Future Special + More

Recently, Back To The Future 1 was re-released in the cinemas to celebrate it's 25th anniversary and release on Blu-Ray............still an awesome movie and looks brilliant on the big screen now that the image had been cleaned up, looks like it was filmed only a few years ago.

Anywho, loads of attention has returned to the film so much that the Scream Awards (sorta like the Oscars for Horror / Sci-Fi / Comics and all that) have gotten Michael J. Fox to star in a shot-for-shot remake of the film's original teaser trailer.  The teaser itself had no footage of the film and only showed tiny glimpses of the DeLorean.

Here's the original 1985 version:


And here's the 2010 version:


Heh, besides the visible shakes Fox ain't looking too bad.  Cue the internet crying out for a 4th BTTF movie.

Now as another special being touted for the Blu-Ray is at last some footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly.  The part was always meant for Michael J. Fox but because he busy with his TV show Family Ties, Eric Stoltz got the job.  They actually filmed 5 weeks of footage with him, many of which were expensive key sequences but they then realised that he wasn't right as McFly.  It was nothing against his acting, just that he "acted" Marty McFly while Michael J. Fox "was" Marty McFly, epecially in terms of comic timing.

So, they had to let him go, got Fox to fill the role and then they reshot the footage which added an extra $5 million to the budget.  So here's a glimpse of the Eric Stoltz footage, bizzare to see what could've been made of this film:


Plus here's some photos compiled together, these have been around years but no actual footage has been shown until now.  Skip to 2:30 to see the photos:


Bit wierd to see, eh?  It seems to suit the whole premise of the film, had Fox's Marty not gotten his parents back together in the 1st film then he wouldn't have existed, cue Stoltz character befriending Doc where HE has to go back and set his parents up or else HE doesn't exist.................seems like an endless cycle where Doc's DeLorean is just wiping out people in the past.