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A blind item on Crazy Days & Nights alleging the real reasons why Crispin Glover & Claudia Wells didn't come back

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275. ENTERTAINMENT LAWYER 08/17 **#16**

http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/08/four-for-friday-sequel.html

The Sequel: Why didn't he make it? One simple reason. He put his foot down and said he would call a press conference to tell the world what the producers were doing with the kids they were auditioning for no reason because the script didn't actually call for any kids to be in the movie. Oh, sure, they invented a couple background walk on type roles for the kids to appear in to make sure the parents were assuaged. Yeah, sorry you didn't know where your son was all day, but hey, good news he gets to be in the movie now. This actor, who has never probably eclipsed B+ list was portrayed as a troublemaker for spreading the truth. He was effectively blacklisted by any and all people who were friends with the producers which was 75% of Hollywood. There was a group though who were not friends and they have kept the actor at least earning enough to make a living. I can't even watch the film any longer because of what I know what was happening on the set. The actor said the multiple bedrooms used in scenes in the movie would often smell of cigars and booze because that is often where the producers would take the boys after their "tour" of the set. Our actor also says that every other actor on that film set knew what was going on but they valued their careers more than the horrors taking place. Only one other person on set was willing to sacrifice their career and this foreign born actress did. When she walked out, she basically didn't work again for almost two decades.

Actor: Crispin Glover
Sequel: "Back to the Future Part II" (sued the producers on the grounds that they had used his likeness without permission)
Foreign born actress: Claudia Wells
Steven Spielberg reference: "What Is It?" An Essay by Crispin H. Glover

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[–] ColumboKate (5329) 4 years ago

I'm 40 this year. I've seen all 3 films more times than I can count. In fact, currently watching #2 on film4 which is showing the 3 back to back.

I had no idea, until this very moment, that crispin Glover wasn't in this film !😳 I cant believe that George mcfly is someone else. I'm speechless. Can't believe I have I gone all these years without knowing this information 🧐

[–] TMC-4 (19453) 4 years ago

Well, that was pretty much the filmmaker's intent. Notice that they have George hanging upside down from a distance under heavy old age makeup in the 2015 scenes? And they also had the actor that they got to stand in for Crispin Glover to wear heavy prosthesis to make him look as much as Crispin as possible when they were recreating the Enchantment Under the Sea segments from the first movie? That was what got Crispin Glover upset, when they mixed that aforementioned material with Jeffrey Weissman with footage of Crispin himself from the first movie.

https://www.google.com/search?q=jeffrey+weissman+george+mcfly&tbm=isch&sxsrf=ALeKk01TRAscIVEziI0aTlV_d7TLWIqg-g:1587873203196&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjU3uXRmIXpAhUJbawKHS6fDrwQ_AUIDygC&biw=1600&bih=757&dpr=1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmIJ6MdKqaE

[–] ColumboKate (5329) 4 years ago

Ahhh the video montage was great thank you 🤗

[–] ebhaynz (3545) 4 years ago

Sorry, I've read a lot about Steven Spielberg and he's been squeaky clean. There's still rumors that for some reason he was on the Twilight Zone set passed midnight and left right after 3 actors will killed in a helicopter accident. Well, he wasn't there but what did Spielberg do? Yep, he ended his relationship with the director John Landis because he had been way too careless with his stunts.
Has Spielberg ever been in a sex scandal with anyone underage? Nope, he's been in monogamous relationships his whole life. One actress did move in on him when he was a young director who was practically a virgin. Might have been Margot Kidder I forget. After her he hooked up with Amy Irving, she got a ton of his money. He ended up marrying one of the Indy Jones stars, Kate Capshawm and they have several kids and really that's all there's to tell about Steven Spielberg he's been one of the good guys, unlike Bill Cosby(in prison for the rest of his life) or Harvey Weinstein(in prison for the rest of his life).

[–] mitzibishi (1621) 3 years ago

>kids they were auditioning for no reason because the script didn't actually call for any kids to be in the movie.

Funny because Elijah Wood had a speaking role in part 2, maybe ask him if Spielberg fiddled and the kids with speaking roles in part 1 from the 1955 skateboard scene.

So Glover supposedly threatened a press conference outing everybody. They screw him royally. Then he forgets to hold the press conference.

Or ask why Glover completed all of his film duties for part 1, while he was aware of kids being messed with then only gave resistance about it at a much later date when it came to pay talks, threatened to whistle blow then didn't and turned a blind eye on kids to getting raped while he took action in court over his likeness.

Wouldn't they do auditions before Glover even had hold of a full script so how did he know who they would need for auditions? If he was there for audition days for part 1, he wouldn't have a full script to check over to see if kids had speaking roles. Other than his audition days for part 1, how would he know what went on? Is he allowed to hang around the studio buildings at leisure anytime he wants between movies.

>Oh, sure, they invented a couple background walk on type roles for the kids to appear in to make sure the parents were assuaged.

Journalism.

[–] Cognoscente (2470) 8 months ago

Thanks to the other archived version of IMDB (filmboards.com), I used the Wayback Machine to read a transcript of Bob Gale's 2003 live chat on the Home Theater Forum: http://events.hometheaterforum.com/chat/gale.txt

Gale: "Claudia Wells had a substance abuse problem (she's fine now), and was in no condition to do the sequels. So we recast."

[–] riraho (98) 7 months ago

FWIW, enty has had more than 1 accusation about Zemeckis on his blog.