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Hollywood has been abuzz this week over revelations concerning the \u201crecasting of the cast\u201d of Back to the Future<\/strong> way back in the past\u20141985, to be exact. According to an interview with GQ that hit the newsstands on Monday, Christopher Lloyd was originally not at all pleased that Eric Stoltz\u2019s head rolled to be replaced with Michael J Fox\u2019s.<\/p>\n

For the memory-impaired, Stoltz got canned after the film had been in production for nearly two months when the Future moguls concluded he was miscast for the role. Lloyd, who played the role of Dr. Emmett Brown, revealed how he was initially upset at the decision: \u201cThey just decided they needed somebody with a comic flair. Stoltz is a wonderful actor. I had no idea the change was coming. My biggest fear, because I was really working to get Doc right, I thought, \u2018I don\u2019t know if I can get it up to do [all the scenes over] again.\u2019 So I was worried about it. But, it all worked out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The GQ story recounts the abrupt fashion in which Lloyd and his fellow cast members got the news of the change. \u201cOne night we were shooting the mall beginning sequence, and we were asked to come to one of the trailers at one o\u2019clock in the morning,\u201d he recalled. \u201cSpielberg was there and he made the announcement of the change.<\/p>\n

Stoltz\u2019s resume had included appearances in Running Hot and The Wild Life. Also in 1985, he appeared as the lead in Mask, which featured Cher as leading actress. He later had a stellar career playing major roles in such films as The Fly<\/strong>, Pulp Fiction<\/strong>, Say Anything<\/strong>, and Some Kind of Wonderful<\/strong>. He also appeared in the TV series Mad About You<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Despite his initial misgivings, Lloyd says he maintained a friendship with Stoltz that has lasted over the years. He also told GQ how much Back to the Future meant to him personally: \u201cKids who saw it when the film first came out, grew up and had kids who they began their lives with it. So many people have come up to me to say how I\u2019ve made their childhood, or the film made their childhood, or they became engineers or scientists or surgeons or whatever from the effect of the film on them. Nothing else I\u2019ve done has had that kind of impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

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