Michael J. Fox reveals in his new memoir, “Future Boy,” that he wrote a letter to Eric Stoltz asking to finally meet 40 years after replacing Stoltz as Marty McFly in the blockbuster “ Back to the Future .” As the infamous story goes, Stoltz was already in production for six weeks on the Robert Zemeckis-directed blockbuster when the decision was made to boot him and recast the lead role with the director’s first choice, Fox, who was blocked from the film due to his commitment to the NBC sitcom “Family Ties.”

“Eric has maintained his silence on the subject for 40 years, so I was prepared for the likelihood that he’d prefer to keep it that way,” Fox writes in the memoir (via Entertainment Weekly ), noting the two had never come face to face to discuss the casting swap. Fox wrote to h

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