Flash: You really missed the hidden meaning of that joke

Can you escape back to the future while watching time travel movies? No. And Flash didn’t even try to do that, as Robert Zemeckis himself was approached to direct this movie, in which the DC hero goes back in time to prevent his mother’s murder. and creates a series of disasters.

After discovering that the new world he’s landed in isn’t really his anymore and that another version of himself exists, Barry Allen turns to the future in his head to explain the situation. And if he realizes that Robert Zemeckis’ feature film was born in this alternate reality, there are a few minor changes.

“Eric Stoltz rock in this movie”, replies his double, who has never heard of the Michael J. Fox version. Who, according to alternative bar friends, is the hero of Footloose, not Kevin Bacon, star of Top Gun. At least in their world. Because it was never a question for us, even among the actors considered for casting.

As for Eric Stoltz, things are different. And they go even further. Because the actor was hired to play Marty McFly and did so for five weeks until Robert Zemeckis and Universal decided to part ways with him. Because the then 23-year-old actor didn’t look young enough and his comic energy didn’t match the script.

Only these pictures remained in his role:

A change that makes Michael J. Fox happy. Initially, the actor had to give up due to his commitments to the TV series Sacred Family. But a solution has been found at NBC, and it’s Robert Zemeckis’ Marty McFly instead of Eric Stoltz…whose arm and part of his face can still be seen when the hero punches Biff in the bar scene in 1955.

If the mention of Eric Stoltz in The Flash works so well with viewers who know the anecdote, it’s because it fits the theme of the DC movie and is based on proven facts that are part of the movie’s alternate history. The one where actor Stuart Townsend is seen thanking Peter Jackson after days of filming when he was supposed to be his Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings.