11/11/2023 0 Comments Scott wolf michael j fox![]() And it was obviously the biggest hit of the summer and the entire year. He was apparently so loopy from lack of sleep that he once panicked backstage on Family Ties because he couldn’t find Doc’s camcorder.īecause of the massive test audience response of Back to the Future, they moved the release date up to July 3, 1985. To handle both Family Ties and Back to the Future, Fox would film the TV show in the day, then head to the movie until 2-3 am where he would be carried into bed and would sleep for a few hours and repeat the entire process. Fox Pulls Double Duty on Teen Wolf/Back to the Future Fox started filming Back to the Future in January 1985, and at this point, he was such a star from the show that not allowing him to shoot would be a detriment to his career and audiences who loved him. This allowed the producers to reshape the movie into what we now know and love.Įxample: The opening scene wasn’t supposed to take place in Doc’s garage with Marty late for school, but would have started IN school with Marty pulling a fire alarm to get out of detention. When they brought Michael J Fox in for the Back to the Future reshoots, they had been able to watch pretty much the entire movie to see which scenes had and hadn’t been working. So Back to the future could have originally had him, but this all worked out for the best. Fox to go do it compared to Back to the Future, which would have been much, much longer. This short filming schedule is pretty astonishing, even for a TV commercial, but the quick turnaround time allowed Michael J. They reserved one entire week of that month just for filming the basketball scenes. ![]() The other amazing thing with Teen Wolf–which was again the intent–was they filmed the entire movie in around a month. It turns out, Family Ties would take a break with the real-life pregnancy of Baxter Birney, which meant Michael J Fox could go off to make this little werewolf comedy. ![]() Fox for it.īack to the Future then went with second choice Eric Stoltz, who would film nearly 80% of the movie before being fired and replaced by Fox. Back to the Future was to begin filming in November 1984, and the studio just wouldn’t release Michael J. Meredith Baxter Birney was pregnant, and the show didn’t want to lose both her and its star. Fox was the first choice to play Marty McFly, but they didn’t know how this would all work with the success of Family Ties. The Teen Wolf/Back to the Future Connections If you want to learn all about the origins of the PG-13 rating–and its connections to Indiana Jones–you can check out my article all about it here. Why this didn’t get a PG-13 rating is pretty surprising. I think this threw off many families who found something that really wasn’t appropriate for kids. Surprisingly, Teen Wolf only had a PG rating. This is no excuse, but it was the 1980s and a lot of this stuff was able to fly. There are some very problematic language and situations in this movie. The character of the werewolf has been used this way many other times, but in this case, it works pretty well for all the awkwardness we experience in high school.Īs mentioned, my memories of this movie are much tamer than it actually is. The werewolf represents the changes that kids in high school go through as they struggle to find their identity. There are a few themes in Teen Wolf, and they mainly explore the issues of puberty and adolescents. Eventually, Scott has to realize he can’t depend on the werewolf, and his regular self needs to be enough. His love interest comes into the picture even though he had brushed off genuine interest from one of his friends, Boof. Now, he is the most popular person in school. It also gives him super athletic ability, and he becomes a basketball star. Instead of being an outcast, he is embraced as the werewolf. He is pretty average and doesn’t really stand out.īut it turns out “werewolfniss” has run in his family and he too can transform into one. Scott Howard is a regular 17-year-old who is not super popular at school. The plot is pretty straightforward, and it uses a classic horror movie trope in the werewolf character. In my mind, it was a cartoony sort of 80s movie, but it is definitely not as I remember. It’s been a long time since I watched Teen Wolf.
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