In what turned out to be a huge blessing, what actor was originally cast as Marty McFly but was soon fired for being "too dark and brooding"?

As reported in Vulture magazine: "Only a few weeks into filming, director Robert Zemeckis and writer Bob Gale realized something was wrong: Stoltz was a fine dramatic actor, but he wasn’t bringing the screwball energy the film needed. They came to the studio head Sid Sheinberg with a proposition: Let them fire Stoltz, and replace him with Fox, whom they had wanted all along."

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