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According to one of the writers, the studio requested new scenes to be filmed after the initial test screenings.
Faith No More's Ricochet is supposed to be about her. She was one of their singers in the beginning. The song was written on the day that Kurt died and was titled "Nirvana" initially on some setlists.
After BTTF, he wasn't exactly rivalling Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer when it came to being offered leading men roles.
In a 1994 article, Eric expressed interest in being directed by Brian De Palma, Martin Scorsese, Stanley Kubrick and Terrence Malick. With the exception of Malick, Cruise was directed by all of them.
I guess there was no guarantee that the sitcom producer would agree because of the possibility of Fox wanting to leave Family Ties to pursue a movie career. Spielberg's excuse in the October 24, 1985 issue of Rolling Stone: <i>"I should have waited, and yet I wanted the film out for the summer."</i>
In the December 1988 issue of Box Office, one of the three casting directors (Mike Fenton) said: <i>"Everyone had just seen Mask, which Eric starred in and which Universal owned; and I think that the studio decided that Eric was going to become a very important actor. They thought it was a great idea to cast him in a role that was the exact opposite of the one in Mask, and Steven Spielberg allowed Universal to make that final decision."</i>
Sidney Sheinberg claimed that if Spielberg didn't want Stoltz then he could easily have said no given his power.
About CTH and the 2 weeks of rehearsals: https://twitter.com/gmfb/status/938896888589312000
Ironically, Stoltz was cast because he looked like Fox (something that Kathleen Kennedy hinted at in that documentary on the 2010 Blu-ray).
There was a sight gag ripped off from the opening sequence of Wheels on Meals.
Let's not forget that Eric wasn't that serious of an actor. Previously, he had been in Fast Times at Ridgemont High (the director originally wanted him for what became Sean Penn's role), Surf II and The Wild Life.
People always like to bring up Pulp Fiction as Eric's comeback role to comedy but he had already done that with his small role in Say Anything.
But I also think that his career options were limited after the firing, so he had to take what he could get in order to pay the bills.
Claudia Wells was originally considered but she ended up being too busy on a TV show like Fox, so it would appear that the producers realized that they might as well not film Jennifer's scenes until Claudia was available. They deliberately cast Melora knowing that she would be too tall for Fox.
It's like what happened with The A-Team. The role of Face was intended for Dirk Benedict but NBC wanted somebody else. Tim Dunigan was cast in the pilot but he was set up to fail because not only was he too young but he was too tall.
About the prom scenes, the following was taken from the below article: <i>"Going by the accounts of what people have said about filmed scenes, it seems like that prom scene wasn’t filmed because the number of extras would make it too costly."</i>
It should be noted that there was a budget cut in pre-production, hence the following passage: <i>"It would appear that the only way for BTTF to be finished in its then-current form would be to have Marty succeed in being a matchmaker after seeing George punch Biff and reunite with Lorraine. This would mean that a financial restriction might have forced Rob Zemeckis to rewrite the prom night scene so that Marty pulls out his photo and sees that his siblings are completely visible."</i>
https://popcultmaster.com/2019/03/21/to-heck-with-zemeckis/
Similarly, actor Courtney Gains talked about how he, himself, was still on the payroll despite how much time had gone by (implying that he had already filmed what was needed at that point).
http://www.spectacularoptical.ca/2012/03/outlander-a-qa-with-courtney-gains/
One of the things that was said by a woman who claimed to work for Amblin is that the idea was to spend so much money that Universal couldn't back out when the time came to get Fox. I believe her because the Ultimate Visual History book contained similar info about Spielberg encouraging Zemeckis to keep on filming so that the film wouldn't be cancelled.
https://imgur.com/j52Cq78
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