And I questioned that and it was met with a lot of hostility and upset. “I thought the moral aspect ends up being that money equals happiness. The actor who played George McFly had no problem with the characters falling in love as they should have or even Marty’s family being more functional back in the “new” present, but as a 20-year-old actor he questioned why the family all of a sudden had to be extremely successful and wealthy. To hear it from Glover, his biggest issue was the moral ending of “Back To The Future” and the fact that he had the gall to bring it up. Truth be told, the story has been told a dozen times by Glover and other people (this AV Club interview is pretty definitive), but if you’d like to hear it told in a relatively succinct eight minutes, IGN just talked to him about the debacle once again. Fox was making), but Glover has refuted that several times over the years. In the past, one of the producers claimed that the reason Glover didn’t make it into “ Back To The Future II” was because he asked for an exorbitant raise (the same amount of money Michael J. As you probably know by now, said film execs made the poor decision of “replacing” Glover with actors who wore prosthetics to look like him and interspliced that with old footage to create the illusion that it was still Crispin Glover (SAG rules now call this a no-no because of the lawsuit, which Glover filed and won). Crispin Glover was so “difficult” on the set of “ Back To The Future,” or so the story goes anyhow, that director Robert Zemeckis and the producers decided to replace him for the two sequels. It’s become practically mythic folklore at this point and arguably old hat.

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