Movie and pop culture history would have looked dramatically different if producers had stuck with the original actor cast to play Marty McFly in Back to the Future: Eric Stoltz. It didn’t.

Last week, video footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly in Back To The Future appeared online for the first time. We’ve got it here in case you missed it. We said in that piece that we had some ...

It is a little wild to consider that Eric Stoltz, initially pegged for Back to the Future, was almost the iconic face we associate with movie history. During the early ’80s, as Zemeckis poured ...

When Back to the Future started filming, Marty McFly was played not by Michael J. Fox, but by Eric Stoltz. Who knows how different the present day might’ve been had Zemeckis not replaced his ...

Fox wasn't the first actor hired to play Marty McFly in the 1985 film Back to the Future, the man who was, actor Eric Stoltz, has no hard feelings — in fact, the two are friends. Fox ...

but few cases are as infamous as the one that impacted Back to the Future (1985). Before Michael J. Fox accepted the part that made him a household name, Eric Stoltz took a crack at playing Marty ...

Back to the Future was a surprise smash hit for Universal in 1985, although that looked far from certain during production. Originally, Eric Stoltz was cast as Marty McFly opposite Claudia Wells ...

Fox wasn't the first actor hired to play Marty McFly in the 1985 film Back to the Future, the man who was, actor Eric Stoltz, has no hard feelings — in fact, the two are friends. Fox ...

Michael J. Fox in 1985's 'Back to the Future' (left), Eric Stoltz in the 1980s ...