Honestly, when footage of Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future surfaced yesterday, it seemed kind of shruggable to me. What I mean is, Back to the Future with Michael J. Fox is really good? And it’s 2010? I’m an adult with adult responsibilities, and my landlord doesn’t accept payment in footage of Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future. LIFE IS FOR THE LIVING, YOU GUYS. And yet, for some reason, Eric Stoltz in the fading photograph from Back to the Future is blowing my fucking mind. It probably shouldn’t. We have Photoshop now, or whatever. And my landlord also doesn’t accept payment in JPGs of Eric Stoltz in the fading photograph from Back to the Future. And yet. The fading photograph! Literally one of the most important photographs ever taken. THE ENTIRE FABRIC OF SPACE AND TIME DEPENDS ON IT. (Via Dave Itzkoff.)

Comments (54)
  1. That’s Heavy…

  2. I heard he gets older in the picture, but doesn’t age in real life.

  3. Also those are wicked Jorts on Dave.

  4. “He’s hot.”
    -girlphilosopher (and Baby Friday)

  5. Maybe he went back in time to invent the Cylons? Where my nerds at?!

  6. Could they have made Stoltz look more condescending?

  7. Dave looks so hungry, he could eat a wagon wheel.
    Look! A wagon wheel!

  8. The original plot of the movie had Eric Stolz fading into Michael J. Fox in the photo.

  9. Call me when I can purchase these shoes and a hoverboard.

  10. I keep thinking in this version Doc never reads the letter and gets shot, but Eric Stoltz has a shot of adrenaline in the glove compartment of the DeLorean and screw this I’ll show myself out.

  11. Where are they supposed to be anyway? The Alamo?

  12. Eric Stoltz just doesn’t have that special voice-crack needed to make Marty McFly believable.

  13. All these years later and Mickey Mouse tshirts on grown men STILL haven’t gone out of style. Classic elegance, Dave.

  14. Classic Photobomb.

  15. It’s an alternate 1985 with an alternate Marty McFly!

  16. “Hey! Pal! The camera is over HERE!….Get Mr. Cool Jeans out of there! He doesn’t even know how to look at the camera. This is a family photo, he’s not posing for some new wave band’s album cover. Get me that lovable Keaton kid from TV.”
    – Robert Zemeckis

  17. This looks like a Calvin Klein ad.

  18. This is Stoltz ahead.

  19. hey, gabe – did you know that Eric Stoltz wasn’t the only one that got fired from that role after a few weeks of shooting. Keanu Reeves, Jon Hamm, AND the Vietnamese girl who was burned by napalm all were cast in that role at different points. They even got far enough into shooting each time so that they took that picture each time.

    I’m sure we’ll be seeing evidence of all of this verrrrry shortly.

  20. pretty sure i saw Marty McFly’s brother at one of the Pool Parties this summer.

  21. Eric Stoltz’s big asset, and detraction, as an actor is that he always looks like he’s smug in whatever he’s doing.

  22. Weird. Michael J. Fox was SUPPOSED to direct last night’s episode of Glee. When he couldn’t Eric Stoltz stepped in.

    It was clearly density.

  23. Call me when I can purchase these shoes and a hoverboard.

  24. Speaking of BTTF , Micheal J Fox just reshot the old teaser trailer for the 25th anniversary reunion

    http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=70679

  25. all these eric stoltz footage revelations are messing with my space-time continuum.

  26. Hey, Joe Mande:

    [IMG]http://i56.tinypic.com/n204g1.jpg[/IMG]

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