Syfy has a very interesting article where Crispin Glover finally opens up on some of the noted Back To The Future controversies that kept him out of the sequels and fairly silent on the matter for the last two decades plus:
“On the DVD to the Back to the Future trilogy, Bob Gale has said
something that’s totally fabricated,” Glover told a group of reporters
at this weekend’s press junket for Hot Tub Time Machine. “He
said I asked for twice the amount of money that Michael J. Fox asked
for in the first film. In the negotiation for the second film, they
offered me less than half of what any of the actors that were being
asked to come back in the film—Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea
Thompson and Tom Wilson. They had all done studio films, and they’d
made a lot more money. I was being penalized.”
Glover
has quite a bit else to say on the matter, including ultimately being
glad that he was in the film and how he had a good experience working
with Robert Zemeckis. He also dips into the legal action he
filed when he was replaced in the sequels by an actor in “false nose, chin and cheekbones in order to fool people into believing that [he] was in the film.”
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Never mind being replaced in BTTF 2 (which I think worked out well for the story actually) wait until Crispin actually sees Alice ion Wondrland. He'll be like : "Fuck man! That Burton bast replaced my whole body?!! Now why the fuck would he go and do that? Look at my legs! Cheeses Christ! It's like new-born Bambi in biking leathers!"
I don't think I've gone back yet and watched these since I discovered he wasn't even in the sequels. I was surprised to hear it. The makeup totally fooled me!
Interesting. HUGE bttf fan here. Reading his comments on how he took the replacement of marty mcfly is interesting. He seems like it threw him off to have to redo most of his work all over again with a different actor. Damn, still a good movie anyway but yeah must have been a pain in the ass to make. lol.
Whoa, better tread carefully there, Mr. Glover!
You don't want to get on Bob Gale's bad side!
That guys got more clout in this town than, er……uh…….um………
@ #3……marty wasn't replaced, george mcfly was.
thats also why they have george mcfly 2015 in the upside down hovering back brace thingy, so the new actor wouldnt be recognized as not being crispin. they do reuse some shots of him at the end of part 2 i think, but all the new stuff was done by Jeffrey Weissman
Marty was replaced. Eric Stoltz was originally cast as Marty and shot a significant amount of his part before being replaced with Michael J. Fox. I believe Fox had been the studio's first choice but was originally unavailable do to his TV schedule.
They totally fucked him over in the sequels, Bob Gale fucked up, producers can be fucked up greedy assholes. I hope the Bobs feel bad for what they did to Glover, it shows how Hollywood has no class.
The new issue of Empire has a great article on BTTF, with an interview with Bob Gale, RZ and Senior Spielbergo. The talk a little about Crispin, and the studios initial involvement and the changes they wanted to make, among other things. As usual, an awesome read.
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