While the Marty McFly recasting is now a well-known fact, Back to the Future originally tried to keep it a secret. Back to the Future recast Marty McFly after the role was originally played by Eric Stoltz. He even filmed for weeks before he was fired and replaced with Fox, who was more in line with what director and co-writer Robert Zemeckis envisioned for the character.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the 1985 movie, Fox wrote the book Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum . While speaking with Entertainment Weekly about the book, he explains how he was rushed into playing Marty, with the public initially unaware of the recast. This happened as he was also shooting season 3 of the sitcom Family Ties . Check out his comments

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