Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum

Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum by Michael J. Fox and Nelle Fortenberry

Michael J. Fox was a starving artist looking for any opportunity to act. He landed on the sitcom Family Ties. He jumped at the chance to start in the movie Teen Wolf. Then Back to the Future happened. The movie was not working with the current lead and they wanted him to come in and star. He worked on the movie during the night and the show during the day. They could tell the movie would be success from the early screenings and it was. It was one of the few "time travel" movies that really worked. This memoir focuses on the movie, but also provides some of Fox's early background (though it ends after the film is released.) It is timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the film. (Interestingly, that is 10 more years than the difference in the two time periods of the film.) The book is short and to the point, with the audiobook including some bits of dialog from the film.