The Actor Who Was Erased From Back to the Future

Five weeks into filming Back to the Future, Universal fired its Marty McFly — Eric Stoltz — and secretly kept the cameras rolling while they negotiated for the man they had always wanted, Michael J. Fox. This is the full story: how Family Ties producer Gary Goldberg hid the script from Fox; how studio president Sid Sheinberg forced Stoltz into a comedy he was wrong for; the $3–4 million secret reshoot; the second actor fired that day, 17-year-old Melora Hardin; and the mystery of whether a piece of Stoltz's performance survives in the final cut. It is a story about a system that treated a gifted actor as the wrong asset — and the strange, perfect irony of the character he never got to keep. The Ghost Week → 00:00 The Actor They Hid the Script From → 00:56 The President's Pick → 2:05 Wrong, Not Bad → 3:33 The Secret Firing → 05:33 Three Months of No Sleep → 8:22 The Man Who Remembers → 9:55 ► If you found this video eye-opening, please like and subscribe to support our channel! ► Thank you for watching! See you in the next one.