8 Actor Recasts That Completely Changed Everything

5. Back To The Future €“ George McFly

Crispin Glover's most famous role is playing the bumbling father of Marty McFly in Robert Zemeckis's Back To The Future, both as an adult and a young man, putting in a curious yet oddly endearing performance. Things didn't last happily for long though, leading to only entry on this list that resulted in aggressive legal action.

Unable to negotiate terms with the film's producers in order to reprise his role, Glover was subsequently recast by the actor Jeffrey Weissman in Back To The Future 2. Things got a little more complicated, though, when director Robert Zemeckis reused footage of Glover that had been captured during the first film. This, combined with the fact that Weissman was made up in prosthetics and routinely obscured in order to look like Glover, resulted in Glover sueing Universal Studios for having used his likeness without permission. What this ultimately resulted in was a slightly different character in the second film. Glover's performance of George was so good that it's impossible not to notice something is off, especially when Marty travel's back to the dance and winds up talking to him. Aside from the loss of continuity (something that should really be a priority in a franchise that centres on time travel) George McFly (or any past or future iteration) is also largely cut from the third movie; he only has one line: "I can't find my other glasses. Lorraine, have you seen my glasses?" Hardly a fitting end for such a brilliant character.