The original Marty McFly was Eric Stotlz
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Posted on: 2010-10-12 24:38 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Yeah, pretty well known story.
Also, if I remember correctly, Fringe did a nod to this one episode where there was a flashback in the alternate world set in the 80s and a theater marquee for Back to the Future had "Starring Eric Stoltz".
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Stuart Townsend was originally Aragorn.
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Happens all the time, you only rarely hear about it.
(although, I've never actually seen video of Eric Stoltz as Marty, even though I knew of this since the DVD release)
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True. This is one of those things where you wish you could see what would have happened if the switch hadn't happened. Like would the movie have flopped, would there have been other fallout from Fox not being in it and from Stolz being in it if it were a hit and so on.
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Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay
After five weeks of filming, he was let go for not having the comedic style they needed.
Ouch. I can't imagine, as an actor, being fired from a movie for not being "funny enough", and then sitting on the bench as you watch it become of America's most treasured films.  |
total kick to the gut
This is like having Ra's Al Ghul show up at your birthday party.
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Wow I didn't know that Eric was originally Mary Mcfly. Does anyone know if at the time when the movie came out if he was angry and hated both the producer and director and Micheal J Fox?
Cancel the kitchen scraps for widows and lepers, no more merciful beheadings and call off christmas!
Slight Threadjack, Christopher Walken was considered for Han Solo. Which makes me wonder would Walken have shot first?
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Thats heavy. 
Not that I disagree with the choice though, if it made it a better movie, then by all means.
Stotlz looks too mature(?), too serious for the role in those scenes.
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By the way, Stotlz directed last night's episode of Glee.
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And it was one of my favorites.|
Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
By the way, Stotlz directed last night's episode of Glee.
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Does it need its own thread? No one seems to care that I didn't make one.
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I'm sure he felt bad about losing the job, but my understand is he's not hung up or angry about it (like Crispin Glover was/is).|
Originally Posted by 2short2care
Wow I didn't know that Eric was originally Mary Mcfly. Does anyone know if at the time when the movie came out if he was angry and hated both the producer and director and Micheal J Fox?
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Eric Stoltz is not an unfunny guy, but he would have been a much mellower and laid back Marty, and while they thought they could have worked through that when they cast him, the more daily footage they saw the more they realized it wasn't going to happen.
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Not like this is the first movie to have someone else play the part intended for someone else.
I would think the part that's interresting about this, is they had already been filming for 5 weeks.
It did seem to lack the energy that Michael J Fox was able to put in on it.
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Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
By the way, Stotlz directed last night's episode of Glee.
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Stotlz also directed the Premiere Episode of the new season of Caprica.
Why no thread about this season's Caprica?
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Yeah, it looked more like a drama than a comedy in those short few shots.
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Originally Posted by BrandX
Not like this is the first movie to have someone else play the part intended for someone else.
I would think the part that's interresting about this, is they had already been filming for 5 weeks. It did seem to lack the energy that Michael J Fox was able to put in on it. |
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Originally Posted by QuietAmerican
Why no thread about this season's Caprica?
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I blame Hickman.
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Welll, I'm sure the lines were funny, but the body language seemed more serious anyways. Which probably was part of the "just not getting the laughs we're going for" the director mentioned.
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Originally Posted by Diggis
Yeah, it looked more like a drama than a comedy in those short few shots.
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This. I agree that Stoltz has comedic ability but this is simply a case of the movie character not being a good fit for the chosen actor, so he was replaced. |
Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
I'm sure he felt bad about losing the job, but my understand is he's not hung up or angry about it (like Crispin Glover was/is).
Eric Stoltz is not an unfunny guy, but he would have been a much mellower and laid back Marty, and while they thought they could have worked through that when they cast him, the more daily footage they saw the more they realized it wasn't going to happen. |
Kind of like for 2012 there is a theatrical Three Stooges movie planned.....good luck casting those iconic roles. It's easy to find someone to imitate one of the stooges, the trick is find three that work well together as the Stooges did.
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TVTropes has had an entry on it for years now: The Other Marty.|
Originally Posted by MentalMaden
Yeah, pretty well known story.
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Originally Posted by Desi_Nova
Slight Threadjack, Christopher Walken was considered for Han Solo. Which makes me wonder would Walken have shot first?
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My favorite Stotlz film remains The Fly II.
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Sounds like a game show. In the lightning round, I take responsibility for the Hindenburg disaster, New Coke, and Halle Berry's Catwoman.
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Originally Posted by MentalMaden
I blame Hickman. |
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Originally Posted by TroyHickman
Sounds like a game show. In the lightning round, I take responsibility for the Hindenburg disaster, New Coke, and Halle Berry's Catwoman.
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That just leaves the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and the Tunguska Event.
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Originally Posted by TroyHickman
Sounds like a game show. In the lightning round, I take responsibility for the Hindenburg disaster, New Coke, and Halle Berry's Catwoman.
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After five weeks of filming, he was let go for not having the comedic style they needed.
Ouch. I can't imagine, as an actor, being fired from a movie for not being "funny enough", and then sitting on the bench as you watch it become of America's most treasured films.