Pam
As someone who grew up in the 1980s, I remember watching Fox as Alex P. Keaton every week, though mostly after the period covered in the book. And like most Gen-X, I remember watching him as Marty McFly for the first time. For me, it wasn’t on the big screen, but the impact of Back to the Future was the same no matter what! So it felt like a no-brainer to read Future Boy. And I’m glad that I did.
From reading Future Boy, I learned things about the filming of Back to the Future that I hadn’t known. Like someone else had originally been cast to play Marty McFly. That seems preposterous to me. It turns out the role was actually written for Fox, but he wasn’t initially offered it because of his obligations to Family Ties.
I listened to the audiobook, which Fox himself narrated, and I highly recommend it as well. There are sound bites of various interviews conducted while writing the book. The physical copy has photos from Fox’s life, both before he became famous and from the sets of both the show and the movie.
Overall, anyone interested in TV and movie production would enjoy reading Future Boy. I also recommend it to everyone in search of a quick, refreshing, and blunt memoir.
As someone who grew up in the 1980s, I remember watching Fox as Alex P. Keaton every week, though mostly after the period covered in the book. And like most Gen-X, I remember watching him as Marty McFly for the first time. For me, it wasn’t on the big screen, but the impact of Back to the Future was the same no matter what! So it felt like a no-brainer to read Future Boy. And I’m glad that I did.
From reading Future Boy, I learned things about the filming of Back to the Future that I hadn’t known. Like someone else had originally been cast to play Marty McFly. That seems preposterous to me. It turns out the role was actually written for Fox, but he wasn’t initially offered it because of his obligations to Family Ties.
I listened to the audiobook, which Fox himself narrated, and I highly recommend it as well. There are sound bites of various interviews conducted while writing the book. The physical copy has photos from Fox’s life, both before he became famous and from the sets of both the show and the movie.
Overall, anyone interested in TV and movie production would enjoy reading Future Boy. I also recommend it to everyone in search of a quick, refreshing, and blunt memoir.