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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Lloyd said producer Steven Spielberg told the whole cast and crew of the recasting.</li><li>"I had no idea a change was coming," Lloyd told GQ, admitting he was "worried" about the decision. </li></ul><p>It's one of the greatest recastings in Hollywood history.</p><p>Though <keyword id="13082585" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="michael-j-fox" source="Orion">Michael J. Fox</keyword> will be forever known for playing Marty McFly in the hit 1985 movie "<a href="https://www.insider.com/back-to-the-future-cast-where-are-they-now">Back to the Future</a>" and its sequels, he was not originally cast to play the lead.</p><p><keyword id="13082587" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="eric-stoltz" source="Orion">Eric Stoltz</keyword> had the role. But when he was suddenly replaced in the middle of shooting, Lloyd — who played zany inventor Dr. Emmett Brown, whose friendship with a high schooler leads to a time travel adventure — was initially "worried."</p><p>In an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJuuOh8UJzM">interview with GQ</a> looking back on his career, the 83-year-old actor said, "I had no idea a change was coming." </p><p>"One night we were shooting the mall beginning sequence," Lloyd continued, "we were asked to come to one of the trailers at one o'clock in the morning, and [Steven] Spielberg was there and he made the announcement of the change."</p><div type="image" title="Eric Stoltz and Christopher Lloyd looking at a watch" height="720" width="1280" msid="89284685" hostid="261"></div><p>For the first six weeks of production on the time travel movie, young heartthrob Stoltz played McFly. Rising up the ranks in stardom thanks to roles in 1982's "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and the soon-to-be-released 1985 drama "Mask," Stoltz was thought to be perfect in the role.</p><p>However, Stoltz was gone after a matter of weeks, and Fox, best known at the time for playing Alex P. Keaton on the popular 1980s TV show "Family Ties" and the original first choice to play McFly, had the role.</p><p>Lloyd said the reason for the recasting was that the producers needed more comedy out of the role. "They just decided they needed somebody with a comic flair," he added.</p><p>Still, Lloyd's big concern was wondering if he could capture the same energy embodying Doc Brown when shooting the scenes over again with a new actor.</p><p>"I was really working to get Doc right," he said. "I thought, 'I don't know if I can get it up to do that again.' So I was worried about it. But, it all worked out."</p><p>The result was Fox and Lloyd's characters becoming one of the famous duos in movie history.</p><p>"We had a chemistry, which lasted the whole time," Lloyd said of working with Fox. "We could come back after a break and it would just be there. You didn't have to work for it, which was great."</p>

Christopher Lloyd admits he was 'worried' about Michael J. Fox replacing Eric Stoltz in 'Back to the Future': 'But it all worked out'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Warning: Mild spoilers ahead for "The Flash."</li><li>The Andy Muschietti-directed superhero movie has been overhyped by early critics.</li></ul><p>Early critics heralded "The Flash" as one <a href="https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/the-flash-early-reactions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">of the best superhero movies ever made</a>. That couldn't be further from the truth.</p><p>There's a scene early in Warner Bros.' latest DC outing where the titular hero (Ezra Miller) saves a group of babies and a nurse from falling to their deaths.</p><p>The dragged out, slowed-down scene involves a baby getting closed inside an unplugged microwave to save its life. Then, Miller's Barry Allen/The Flash offers mental health advice to a screaming nurse who's in shock. </p><p>It's supposed to elicit laughter. Yet the fact that these scenes made the film's final cut given Miller's <a href="https://www.insider.com/ezra-miller-controversies-timeline-arrests-reports-2022-8">legal troubles</a>, "<a href="https://www.insider.com/ezra-miller-is-seeking-help-for-complex-mental-health-issues-2022-8">complex mental health issues</a>," and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ezra-miller-flash-running-a-cult-grooming-minors-carrying-guns-2022-8">accusations of grooming children</a> make it difficult to separate the actor from his superhero facade. </p><p>It gets better from there, but "The Flash" isn't the spectacle some critics and <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tom-cruise-has-seen-the-flash-movie-1235355326/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">celebrities</a> promised months ago.</p><p>The Andy Muschietti-directed movie, which has been <a href="https://apnews.com/article/flash-movie-timeline-ezra-miller-b5cc7751677e1bdf7701a29b398c8e6d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">in development as far back as the '80s,</a> loosely follows the popular DC story "Flashpoint," in which the speedster travels back in time to prevent the death of his mother (Maribel Verdú) during his childhood. Unfortunately, changing the past alters the present. </p><p>The Flash finds himself trapped in an alternate timeline where the Justice League doesn't exist and Superman villain Zod (Michael Shannon from 2013's "Man of Steel") threatens to once again take over Earth and transform it into a new home for his nearly extinct Kryptonian race.</p><p>Barry runs into his past self, a doe-eyed dingbat sans superpowers, and together they need to stop Zod and send the hero home. Help comes in the form of Supergirl (Sasha Calle) and a blast from the past — Michael Keaton's Batman, a cameo that's strategically been used in marketing, likely to take some of the attention off the film's troubled star.</p><p>Stuffed with unnecessary cameos seemingly for the sake of it, "The Flash" contains glimpses of fun, but is tonally uneven. It's often in conflict with itself over whether it wants to be a Batman nostalgia fest or about the fastest man alive.<strong><em> </em></strong></p><h2><strong>Michael Keaton's Batman is the best thing about 'The Flash' </strong></h2><div type="image" title="Michael Keaton as Batman in &quot;The Flash.&quot;" height="720" width="1280" msid="101052185" hostid="261"></div><p>Let's be real. Despite being called "The Flash," audiences are likely venturing to theaters to see Keaton's reprisal as the Dark Knight. And Keaton doesn't disappoint. </p><p>"The Flash" meanders and relies on cringey and juvenile jokes for much of its first hour. (The film lingers on an unfunny gag that will go over young viewers' heads about <a href="https://screenrant.com/back-future-original-marty-fired-eric-stoltz-why/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Eric Stoltz playing Marty McFly in "Back to the Future"</a> in a different timeline for far too long.) </p><p>It's not until Keaton shows up to fight two versions of the Flash with a broom on a table in nothing but sweats and one flip flop that the movie livens up. </p><p>Every moment with Keaton on screen makes this movie worth watching. The actor gets the film's best fight sequence while effortlessly taking down Russians to Danny Elfman's familiar theme. </p><p>Keaton reminds us his Batman can do anything efficiently, including delivering the most straightforward explanation of the multiverse in any comic-book movie to date using nothing more than a bowl of spaghetti. </p><h2><strong>Every other hero outshines The Flash in this movie.</strong></h2><p><strong></strong></p><div type="image" title="Michael Keaton as Batman in The Flash" height="1582" width="3000" msid="101052188" hostid="261"></div><p>Miller gets overshadowed in their own film any time a version of Batman shows up (I won't spoil them all here). Affleck's latest and likely last outing as the Caped Crusader delivers an exciting chase scene through Gotham, while Keaton and one other Batman received the majority of the cheers in my early June screening filled with fans and journalists.</p><p>At times, it feels like you're watching a follow-up to Tim Burton's "Batman Returns" instead of a standalone about the speedster. Throughout the film, Flash relies on Bats to formulate plans to get them out of trouble, help him restore his powers, and take down Zod.</p><p>The result is that The Flash feels more like a sidekick in his own film — even the movie poster has an identity crisis over which hero should be featured more prominently in a film titled "The Flash."</p><div type="image" title="The Flash poster" height="4096" width="2764" msid="101052191" hostid="261"></div><p>It's not just the Batmen who steal scenes.</p><p>Sasha Calle's Supergirl is another bright spot, featured in an adaptation of the popular "Red Son" Superman comic that explores what would've happened if Supes crash landed in Russia instead of a farm in Kansas. Though the film barely scratches the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman:_Red_Son" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surface of the Eisner-winning Mark Millar story</a>, Calle taps into a darker, more vengeful version of the hero than we've previously seen. </p><div type="image" title="Ezra Miller in The Flash" height="1666" width="3000" msid="101052194" hostid="261"></div><p>Unfortunately, without giving away spoilers, the way the film wraps up Keaton and Calle's storylines makes it seem likely this will be the last time we see them in live-action.</p><h2><strong>The film is riddled with awful CGI</strong></h2><p><strong></strong></p><div type="image" title="the flash ezra miller" height="1170" width="2642" msid="101052197" hostid="261"></div><p>Noticeably wonky CGI makes "The Flash" tough to fully enjoy.</p><p>The babies Flash saves near the film's start <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=the%20flash%20microwave&amp;src=typed_query" target="_blank" rel="noopener">look nightmarish</a>. Any time the hero enters the Speed Force to try and turn back time, viewers see humans who look strangely animated, as if editors didn't have time to complete the film's effects. </p><p>Apparently, it was intended to look "<a href="https://gizmodo.com/flash-movie-visual-effects-warner-bros-dc-films-batman-1850540141" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a little weird.</a>" Muschietti and his sister, Barbara, who serves as a film's producer, <a href="https://gizmodo.com/flash-movie-visual-effects-warner-bros-dc-films-batman-1850540141" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told io9's Germain Lussier the CGI isn't a mistake</a>. The visuals look the way they do on purpose to showcase those moments from Barry's point of view. </p><p>Such an explanation would be fine; however, viewers have <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtswU-tBq6g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">seen scenes from Barry's POV in previous DC films</a> where his surroundings look well-defined. This jarring new take doesn't match with what's been introduced in the past. </p><h2><strong>There's a better adaptation of 'Flashpoint' you can watch on Max.</strong></h2><p><strong></strong></p><div type="image" title="Ezra Miller behind another version of himself as The Flash and Sasha Calle as Supergirl" height="1800" width="3331" msid="101052200" hostid="261"></div><p>"The Flash" is very good when it's a Batman movie and mediocre when it's about Barry Allen. </p><p>The film fails to answer its biggest question: Who killed Barry's mom? Any fan familiar with The CW's nine-season "Flash" series — a show that debuted after WB's 2014 movie <a href="https://www.slashfilm.com/534369/dc-movie-slate-revealed/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</a> and <a href="https://people.com/the-flash-series-finale-how-it-ends-7503686" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concluded</a> weeks before its release — knows the culprit as Reverse Flash. Here, the question is ignored despite being at the heart of the film.</p><p>A Flash baddie could've naturally tied into the film's main story. </p><p>Instead, "The Flash" bizarrely reintroduces Zod, a stale but familiar villain from one of DC's most divisive films, 2013's "Man of Steel," with a cliché goal of overtaking the planet. </p><p>In doing so, the studio oddly revisits <a href="https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/culture/story/warner-bros-snyderverse-zack-snyders-justice-league-76628238" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Snyderverse era of DC that WB refused to continue</a>. (As a reminder, Henry Cavill <a href="https://variety.com/2022/film/news/superman-henry-cavill-black-adam-1235323670/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reprised his role as Superman in October's "Black Adam"</a> only to be kicked to the curb <a href="https://www.insider.com/henry-cavill-confirms-he-will-no-longer-play-superman-2022-12">two months later</a>.)</p><p>By the film's end, Barry doesn't learn his lesson about fiddling with the past as his selfish actions result in another (less life-threatening) shift to the multiverse. It feels like a rushed sunset and solution to cleanly reset the DC universe moving forward, likely without Miller.</p><p>WB already made a more enjoyable Flashpoint adaptation in 2013 called "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3tochTgPVc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox</a>," currently <a href="https://play.max.com/movie/61e4efde-a2e8-47d8-a174-ab654ae6eb3f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">streaming on Max</a>. After you get your Keaton fix, watch that.</p><p><em>"The Flash," also starring Kiersey Clemons and Ron Livingston, is now in theaters.</em></p><h2><strong>Grade:</strong> C+</h2>

Batman aside, 'The Flash' is far from one of the best superhero movies ever made

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>Sony</span></p><p class="caption">Kevin Spacey in "All the Money in the World."</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><ul><li><strong>Kevin Spacey will be replaced by Christopher Plummer in the movie "All the Money in the World."</strong></li><li><strong>It will cost an added $10 million-plus to cut Spacey from the movie.</strong></li><li><strong>Director Ridley Scott doesn't plan to use any visual effects to replace Spacey.</strong></li></ul><p> </p><p>It's hard to ignore the title of the movie Kevin Spacey will be cut from: "All the Money in the World" - because it's going to take a lot to delete the embattled actor from it.</p><p>Ridley Scott's crime drama about the 1973 kidnapping of then 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his mother (played by Michelle Williams) to convince her son's billionaire grandfather J. Paul Getty to pay the ransom to get him back will keep its December 22 release date despite the sexual assault and harassment allegations surrounding Spacey, who plays J. Paul Getty in the movie.</p><p>Or did.</p><p>It was <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/kevin-spacey-will-be-cut-out-of-his-new-already-finished-movie-2017-11">announced on Thursday</a> that Spacey would be replaced by Oscar-winning actor Christopher Plummer, even though the movie is already wrapped.</p><p>It's a move that is unprecedented in Hollywood, and could cost over $10 million to pull off, <a href="http://variety.com/2017/film/news/kevin-spacey-christopher-plummer-all-the-money-in-the-world-1202611975/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">according to Variety</a>.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table float_right"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?query=z.i.H4sIAAAAAAAEAOy9B2AcSZYlJi9tynt_SvVK1-B0oQiAYBMk2JBAEOzBiM3mkuwdaUcjKasqgcplVmVdZhZAzO2dvPfee--999577733ujudTif33_8_XGZkAWz2zkrayZ4hgKrIHz9-fB8_In7dfLn91et79-79Hr_2tFr8umeL7CL_NX-NX-PXeEz__y2n87po2mo1z-t0Va4Xi7z-NUf4Vp5f-8vzc_uHPvj2k9d5Vk_nXxSzWZm_KfJ6_Co_L5b5Il-23q-ny7a-NtB-vb3d-3s7B7_lidflS-3Sh80_k7qq2pdZnS2aX0c_-7Xw_90d_Pqbmfa_u_nlt_41bAe_MX599_q6OX1nQP6a3t8MKrOj-jX1d0D_tbPzqUXF_IH__9r4ucMILFr3pvv916HGpf3C_oX3fl36o15YsOGfvz6a7-KvX48_n1gYnb_5tfMQiv2ToexYKOcdKO5vfs1RO_yToexZKHUHivubKJObl35N_PFr6x9Mpl389huatpgMpi3RJF-ZT3_N4K9fO5809hvzBxM7dzh4v_9auWvu_f5rN6uV_Rx_GBx_K_vi5dS96H7_daraYxX7F381yf2vzF94fu3Z1dL8_muaP8Crv06z9sYT_PVr55nDwP-Dfl_5X9g_ft0mgBb--Wu_e_bcTQT9Yb_Iag8374_fqJlWq_zJekli66AGnxqAPw44D3bu4_dfh3hobZsHf_0681r-EArhLwPhY0DY23uI34lNnOD4f_x6L_KrvGn_nwAAAP__V1l-3qUEAAA.&amp;rid=60560&amp;rcat=Composition&amp;rt=Horizontal">Getty Images / Jason Merritt</a></span></p><p class="caption">Christopher Plummer.</p></div><p></p></div></div>The trade asked around and that's the expected price tag following the expected eight to ten shooting days with Plummer (who will cost between $250,000 to $400,000 to take over the role), which will include Williams and costar Mark Wahlberg to return. Their involvement will cost more if they had already done the two weeks of scheduled reshoots that were put into their contracts. Then there's also the added cost for post production and new marketing material.</p><p>Scott, and the movie's financiers Imperative Entertainment, feel it's a gamble worth taking, according to the trade, as they want to get the movie out before the FX series "Trust" airs in January, which also looks at the Getty kidnapping.</p><p>Surprisingly, Scott will not be doing the Plummer reshoots with digital effects, according to Variety.</p><p>When the <keyword id="6355005" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="News">news</keyword> broke of Spacey being replaced most believed Plummer would be thrown in front of a green screen and pasted into Spacey's scenes. However, Scott and the movie's producers believe it will be more economical to reshoot the scenes, which are mostly either of shots of the character by himself or with only a few other actors.</p><p>Shooting will be done in the next two weeks, according to Variety.</p><p>Though there are numerous movies in the past that suddenly had to bring in a new actors in the middle of production for various reasons - Martin Sheen replaced Harvey Keitel in "Apocalypse Now," Michael J. Fox replaced Eric Stoltz in "Back to the Future" - this is the first time an actor has been replaced due to an off-screen scandal.</p><p>Spacey <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/netflix-fires-kevin-spacey-house-of-cards-2017-11">was fired</a> from his hit Netflix show, "House of Cards," earlier this month after <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/men-who-accused-kevin-spacey-of-sexual-harassment-list-2017-11">several men accused</a> the Oscar-winning actor of sexual harassment or assault. 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