Overview

• Fox writes that balancing Family Ties by day with Back to the Future at night meant “twenty-hour workdays,” leaving little time for rest.
• In excerpts cited from Future Boy, assistant director David McGiffert says he refused a plan for Fox to skateboard in front of a moving car, forcing the use of a double.
• Fox revisits a Back to the Future III gallows sequence that left him briefly unconscious after a noose blocked his carotid artery.
• He says Crispin Glover’s unpredictable movement created tension on set, prompting crew to confine his marks with sandbags and C‑stands.
• In a Today interview, Fox recalls accepting the Marty McFly role on the spot via Gary David Goldberg and reflects on the film’s outsized impact on his life, as he continues to discuss decades living with Parkinson’s.