You may or may not know this but Michael J Fox wasn’t the original Marty McFly in Back to the Future. That honour belongs to Eric Stolz, whom you may know from The Fly 2, The Prophecy or even Caprica (his CVs bigger than that, though). There’s not much footage of Stoltz that still survives, but newly emerged for the 25th anniversary edition is this footage, which may ring a few bells:
But for Michael J Fox lovers, how about this little bit of joy – Fox recreating this year the original trailer for the movie?
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
