Random thought: Would Crispin Glover have played Seamus if he'd stuck around?
Of course, MJF probably gave his best alternate McFly performance there, but I'm just wondering. Lea Thompson played one of the ancestors (...which is O_o worthy looking back--unintentionally incestuous that George's ancestor is identical to his wife--,but it was the 80s...), so would Crispin have as well?
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To the comment about Lea Thompson, I think they handwaved it by saying that the McFly men are all attracted to the same kind of women. The fact that Jennifer (when played by both actresses!) looks a bit like Lea too helps. xD
Why did Glover leave the team? I mean, does anyone know the real reasons?
In the making of, it is said that he "wanted things that were too much for a young actor to ask"...but that's it. What happened?
And, moreover, did he have such a huge fight that he isn't even invited to the reunion? (at least, I didn't see him in any pictures).
Gale states that Glover asked far too much money,while Glover states that he was offered far less:
Obviously, Glover and Gale aren't on friendly terms, but Crispin seems to have made peace with Robert Zemeckis, acting in his ill-fated "Beowulf". No one knows the truth in this matter, but here are some things that I previously wrote in this forum, things to think about:
Basically, it was the fact that the "likeness" clauses weren't standard in SAG collective bargaining agreements of the eighties. The whole rigmarole between Glover and the BttF team is what resulted in the creation of those clauses.
As to Seamus, my understanding was that if Glover had come back, he would have been given that role as well as George. When Glover didn't return and Fox showed that he could play multiple characters well with the technology developed for BttF 2, they made the obvious choice of giving him Seamus.
It's possible that the Bobs still didn't quite know how to use him best. After all, his character arc in Part One is pretty complete.
I think the only difference would be that he wouldn't be so far in the background in that particular scene and in the future he wouldn't be held upside down.
So was Lorraine's - but her role in the alternative script was pretty big. George, on the other hand, suddenly turns up towards the ending, throws a punch at Biff and Marty's off into the sunset. That definitly sounds like "We have to get him in, but we really don't want to".
I believe in the commentary they joked about how they wrote the scene that way so that if Crispin didn't return, the replacement would be less noticeable, and if he changed his mind and came back, at least they would get to hang him upside down
So yeah, they weren't on the best terms either way.
Would have been strange to have crispin play such a huge role in the first film, very little in the 2nd one and then a fairly important one in the 3rd film.
I guess they would have given George more screen time in 2015 and lorraine less. It would have been interesting to see him play marty jr. but for plot reasons, he had to look exactly like MJF. I guess they could have given marty a second son and let Crispin play him.
I always assumed it was Crispin Glover in 2015 and in BttF 3 until just now. I think though, I am on the side of his character arc being completed and his character a little unnecessary. But he was a HUGE character in the first and he was very likeable so it was always kind of a shame to not see more of him.
Yeah I knew that, i'm just wondering how part II would have turned out with Crispin still there. I can't see how george would have fit in in 1985A. Plus at one time the plan was for biff to give himself the delorean in the 1960's instead of 1955 and we catch up with the parents as teenagers. So i'd imagine under that scenario, there would be the opportunity for more of george.
I agree georges character comes full arc but so does lorraines and yet they found a new way to show her character in part II.