--- title: Never Before Seen Footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly | TIME description: Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Bob Gale talking about why they decided to replace Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future. canonical: https://time.com/video/hq47R9C3/ og:title: Never Before Seen Footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly og:description: Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Bob Gale talking about why they decided to replace Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future. og:url: https://time.com/video/hq47R9C3/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/hq47R9C3/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Never Before Seen Footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly twitter:description: Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Bob Gale talking about why they decided to replace Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future. twitter:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/hq47R9C3/poster.jpg?width=720 --- # Never Before Seen Footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly ## Video: Never Before Seen Footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly [Watch (HLS stream): Never Before Seen Footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hq47R9C3.m3u8) (1:13)  _Published 2010-10-12. Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Bob Gale talking about why they decided to replace Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future._ --- Jul 27, 2023 3:06 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [](/video/8gI5mtew/) 01:25 ### Eric Shinseki [](/video/DcHly7CX/) 06:06 ### Daniel Day-Lewis and Steven Spielberg Q & A [](/video/UKkCumXf/) 06:10 ### TIME Interviews Steven Spielberg --- ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Never Before Seen Footage of Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly","description":"Robert Zemeckis, Steven Spielberg and Bob Gale talking about why they decided to replace Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/hq47R9C3/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2010-10-12T13:08:47.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/hq47R9C3.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/hq47R9C3/","duration":"PT1M13S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/hq47R9C3/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```