IT WAS NOT HIS DENSITY: As part of the 25th anniversary BluRay release of the Back to the Future trilogy, the public finally gets to see footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly.
[For those who don't know: they actually shot for a month with Stoltz as the lead before deciding that he just didn't provide the right comic touch; also fired as a result was Melora Hardin (The Office's Jan Levinson-Gould), who was to play Jennifer but was too tall to be cast opposite Michael J. Fox.]
Incidentally, I did let Lucy watch BttF about a month ago and she loved it, though the language is a little strong at times (even on basic cable, you get "son of a bitch" and "goddamn" a few times). We stumbled across BttF2 a few weeks later and that ... yeah, that plot's a little hard for a seven-year-old to follow. Now he has to undo everything he screwed up in the future, and then he has to make sure the past happens the way it did the last time he went back ....
I hadn't heard this story until very recently. Last season on Fringe, which no one else I know watches, there was a scene where characters in a parallel universe emerge from a movie theater, the marquee of which advertises Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future. Didn't get the joke at the time.
ReplyDeleteAlso, amusing, Stoltz directed last night's episode of "Glee."
ReplyDeleteIn which Finn needed to go back to the first episode of this season and keep Rachel away from Charice till after the audition, so New Directions could keep her and win Nationals.
ReplyDeleteTime travel and alternative dimensions might well have explained the plot (or lack thereof) last night better--Bart is suddenly out of his coma and out of the hospital with no care other than Kurt? (I thought that Finn and his mom had moved in) Brittany and Santana are allowed to eat things other than Sue Sylvester's cayenne concoction? Basically, all adult characters disappear?
ReplyDeleteEric Stoltz did just fine for himself, but imagine how Melora Hardin might have fared...
ReplyDeleteThe part of Jennifer wasn't really a big stepping-stone - I had to look up who played her in the first movie (Claudia Wells) and Elisabeth Shue was already well-known from The Karate Kid and Adventures in Babysitting before she did the Back to the Future sequels.
ReplyDeleteFinn and his mom moved in, but they moved out when Finn used the other f-word to Kurt.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure several weeks have passed since the last episode, which will place the eventual date of Sectionals around Fourth of July.
ReplyDeleteShe could have wound up in Hamlet 2?
ReplyDeleteIf Melora Hardin was going to rocket to stardom earlier, shouldn't it have been for the North Avenue Irregulars? http://www.allmovie.com/work/the-north-avenue-irregulars-35644/cast
ReplyDeleteAnyone else planning to see Back to the Future on the big screen on 10/23 or 10/25? I just found out the theatre showing it near me does not sell tickets through Fandango, so now I have to work in a separate trip to purchse tix in advance.
ReplyDeleteIIRC, Claudia Wells's mother got sick shortly after the first movie, which is why Shue had to step in for the latter two. If Wells had been able to do the latter two films, who knows what might have happened? Jennifer wasn't a big part in the first one, to be sure, but the movie was so big, it might not have mattered, and a role in all three movies might have made a big difference.
ReplyDeleteAnd, in an alternate reality, where I go back in time and put her in the movie, who knows what the downstream effects could be... butterfly wings and stuff.
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