The WEIRD Reason Back To The Future Fired Marty McFly

Back To The Future is one of the most talked about movies in film history, but most people don’t know that the first Marty McFly is not the one that made it screens. These movies are still being screened across the world to this very day and are still huge talking points for people that love the medium. But Before Back to the Future 2 was even a thought, there was some serious casting changes happening on set. The same goes for another major character who didn’t make it past the first movie. Marty McFly was fired from Back to the Future and the other character walked away from the franchise.

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[Nerdstalgic]

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YOUTUBE'S Copyright removed like 8 seconds of the video towards the end, so that abrupt transition is not your eyes playing tricks on you. Luckily it doesn't really impact the content of the video, but still a bit annoying.

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[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

I just can't imagine anyone as Marty but Michael J. Fox

[regojozsa]

Imagine filming an entire movie as the lead character only for the studio to spend millions replacing you and reshooting everything... that's gotta hurt

[LunaTrimming]

Is no one else completely astonished by Michael doing 22 hours of work everyday for 3 months?? That's insane!! That's beyond impressive..

[hazzasazza]

Crispin Glover’s departure was so sad for me, imagine how different the stories would be if George Mcfly was more involved in the last two parts.

[TheGreatDrake]

To me the message wasn't that money leads to happiness. It's that happiness in this case led to money as George Mcfly learned to have a backbone and go after his dreams rather than just take the easy route and back down.

[-Teague-]

It's funny how so many people thought the movie was gonna be a flop, and now it's this huge classic.

[cobrakaiisback]

I always thought the ending message of back to the future was he gave his father more self confidence back in the day which led to better life choices which led to better life success.

[pvlapa]

Crispin said it wasnt just stealing his likeness. He said he would have been happy with a recast like they did marty's gf. But instead of doing that they used his face out of spite.

[maxthecharacter]

I've never been so glad that Disney didn't get the movie. Think about it. With this era of remakes that's going on with them, this movie would've been remade long ago by them.

[francibrasilis]

They also changed the actress who played Marty's girlfriend in the sequels.

[oliviamarr]

MJF is so underrated. He played TWO of the most iconic characters to come out of the 1980s. His comedic timing is impeccable

[TheMarcHicks]

If Crispin thought the take-home message was "Money Buys Happiness", then he clearly wasn't paying proper attention. One of the chief credos of the film is stated 3 times-"If you set your mind to it, you can accomplish anything!" The family isn't happy *because* they're "rich". They're happy because they're all self-confident. The money is just a nice little by-product of that. Never forget that, despite the improvement in their financial situation, they still live in Lyons Park, instead of the much richer area that gets established in the later films.

[megaman]

Honestly that explains why Michael J Fox always looks so tired in the non-action scenes.

[Mark]

Two hours of sleep a night? No wonder Marty seems so manic.

[Inaworldoflove]

3:45 - "Fox says he got 2 hours of sleep per night on average"... Me "I wonder what the health effects of that would be?"...2 seconds later... "Oh yeah, not good."

[DorsiaMaitreD]

The stress taken in Michael J Fox during intense shooting with 2 hours of sleep? Might have made the Parkinson’s worse

[R_dacted]

That "money buys happiness" take is a but of a stretch. I always saw that ending as them being happier because George became more self confident and that resulted in them earning more money.

[jeffc]

They went to great lengths to disguise someone else as George McFly, but they simply recast Marty's girlfriend without even pretending to make them look similar.

[lebrown]

For part II George: made a face cast, used old footage, hung the guy upside down. Part II Jennifer : 👀