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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Goodsport" data-source="post: 668671" data-attributes="member: 1550"> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Lucas and Spielberg apparently had nothing against casting Harrison Ford from the beginning as Indiana Jones, but Lucas wanted someone pretty unknown at the time; Ford was already very well known to the world as Han Solo by that point, and Lucas was afraid that people wouldn't accept Ford in any other major role (judging by the box office and the critical acclaim for Raiders of the Lost Ark, it seems that Lucas had nothing to worry about). It seems that Harrison Ford was high on the filmmakers' list anyway: when Lucas and Spielberg spoke to each other on the phone after finding out that CBS would not release Selleck to shoot the film, there was a half-minute of silence, followed by Lucas suddenly asking Spielberg "You're thinking of Harrison, aren't you?". Incidentally, a later episode of Magnum P.I. had Selleck play in an Indiana Jones-like episode (undoubtedly in homage to Selleck's missed opportunity to cinematically don the brown fedora). </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Michael J. Fox apparently was always Robert Zemeckis' (director) and Bob Gale's (writer/producer) first choice to play Marty McFly for Back to the Future, but Fox was initially unavailable since he was already commited to NBC's Family Ties.  So after some screentests by Zemeckis and Gale, it came down to two choices: C. Thomas Howell and Eric Stoltz.  Between the two, Zemeckis and Gale preferred Howell, but Universal's studio chief preferred Stoltz (guess which choice prevailed?). After filming many scenes with Stoltz, Zemeckis and Gale decided that it wasn't really working out with Stoltz.  They then contacted Michael J. Fox again and worked out a deal where Fox would film Family Ties for most of the day, then immediately head out to the Back to the Future set and film there... Fox averaged about 1-2 hours of sleep a day during that time. You can view several pages of stillshots with Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly <a href="http://www.bttf.com/cgi-bin/ImageFolio3/imageFolio.cgi?direct=Eric_Stoltz_as_Marty_McFly" target="_blank">here</a>. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul"> Pierce Brosnan was so ticked off by NBC's refusal to release him to play James Bond that he immediately went on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson to voice  his displeasure (it's amazing that NBC let him do that, considering that The Tonight Show was an NBC show). Perhaps in a bit of revenge, Brosnan starred in the similarly-themed movie The Fourth Protocol the same year that The Living Daylights hit theaters, and at the very least the movie did no worse (financially and critically) than the James Bond movie did.</li> </ul>-G</blockquote>

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