‘Back to the Future’: Christopher Lloyd Worried About Replacing Eric Stoltz with Michael J. Fox

Wait a minute, Doc!Christopher Lloyd recently discussed the initial casting of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in “Back to the Future” before Michael J.

Fox was cast in the iconic role.As “Back to the Future” fans may already know, Stoltz filmed for six weeks of production before being let go from the project.“Stoltz is a wonderful actor.

I had no idea the change was coming,” Lloyd recalled to GQ.

“One night we were shooting the mall beginning sequence, and we were asked to come to one of the trailers at one o’clock in the morning.

[Steven] Spielberg was there and he made the announcement of the change.”Lloyd was worried about rebuilding a repertoire again with a different McFly, saying, “My biggest fear, because I was really working to get Doc right, I thought, ‘I don’t know if I can get it up to do that again,

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