Random Surprising Facts You Didn't Know About Back to Futu (45 items)

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  (#21) It Took a Lot of Work (Especially Back in the '80s) to Have a Fake Crispin Glover in Back to the Future II

  The principal actors had committed to the sequels before any scripts were written. However, there was a stumbling block in negotiations with Crispin Glover (George McFly), who voiced his disapproval of the script and backed out of the next film. 

  Jeffrey Weissman was cast as George, and, using molds of Glover made on the set of the first film, was dressed in facial prosthetics to look like Glover, so that they could incorporate excerpts from the original movie. All shots of Weissman either show him from behind, at a distance, upside down, or with sunglasses on, in effect, fooling audiences into believing that Crispin had taken part in the sequel.
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  (#45) Eric Stoltz Is Actually Still in Back to the Future

  The filmmakers famously hired Eric Stoltz to play Marty, shot much of the movie, recast, and reshot with their original first choice, Michael J. Fox. Officially, there's not a single shot in Back to the Future that features Stoltz, but unofficially, it seems there's at least one moment in which the first Marty makes a (partial) appearance. According to Thomas F. Wilson, who played Biff, a shot of Marty throwing a punch was never reshot, so it must be Stoltz, not Fox, who threw it. Universal is unlikely to ever confirm as much, since it would entitle Stoltz to residuals, but there you have it.
  
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  (#18) The Town in Which They Filmed Back to the Future III Was Destroyed by Lightning Years Later

  The site of Hill Valley circa 1885 was destroyed by lightning in 1996.
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  (#2) Marty Throwing the Frisbee in 1885 Is Technically Accurate

  In Part III, Marty uses a Frisbie pie plate to knock a gun out of Mad Dog's hand. In 1871, the Frisbie Pie Company started in Connecticut. Their pie pans were thrown on the campus of Yale and eventually lead to the invention of Frisbees.
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  (#4) The Franchise Has a Very Heartfelt Origin

  The inspiration for the films largely stemmed from Bob Gale discovering his father's high school yearbook and wondering whether he would have been friends with his father as a teenager. 
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  (#20) Elijah Wood Makes His Theatrical Debut in the Franchise

  Elijah Wood's first feature film appearance came with the role of Video Game Boy in Back to the Future II. He played one of the two video game boys with whom Marty speaks in the diner near the beginning of the film.

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