Overview

• Published October 14 by Flatiron Books and coauthored with Nelle Fortenberry, Future Boy centers on Fox’s 1985 balancing act and arrives as the film’s 40th anniversary is celebrated.
• Fox recounts working roughly 20-hour days, performing Family Ties by day and shooting Back to the Future by night with only a few hours of sleep.
• He vividly describes the nightly commute over the Cahuenga Pass and explains his approach to learning dialogue by absorbing scenes rather than memorizing lines.
• Fox reveals he contacted Eric Stoltz, who declined to participate in the book but met privately in 2024; the two shared an amicable conversation and have since kept up friendly correspondence.
• He writes about creative friction with Crispin Glover, including a crew-built ‘miniature corral’ to keep blocking on track, and he confirms the mid-production recast of Marty McFly and the nighttime schedule compromise previously described by producer Bob Gale.