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The reunion comes months after the publication of &34;Future Boy,&34; Fox's celebrated memoir recounting the making of the scifi comedy classic. Michael J. Fox shares Back to the Future reunion with 'my bestie' Christopher Lloyd ahead of 41st anniversary The reunion comes months after the publication of &34;Future Boy,&34; Fox's celebrated memoir recounting the making of the scifi comedy classic. By Ryan Coleman :maxbytes(150000):stripicc()/RyanColemanauthorphoto0081ce8f0254478080f35972c433877b.
The reunion comes months after the publication of "Future Boy," Fox's celebrated memoir recounting the making of the sci-fi comedy classic.
Michael J. Fox shares Back to the Future reunion with 'my bestie' Christopher Lloyd ahead of 41st anniversary
The reunion comes months after the publication of "Future Boy," Fox's celebrated memoir recounting the making of the sci-fi comedy classic.
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Michael J. Fox shares 'Back to the Future' reunion with 'my bestie' Christopher Lloyd. Credit:
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Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd are sending fans back to the past.
The beloved *Back to the Future* stars recently shared a reunion that Fox posted to his Instagram late Saturday night.
"Dining with my bestie at the beach," Fox wrote in the caption of the photo of himself and Lloyd, smiling, heads affectionately bent toward one another in a restaurant.
"Next year *BTTF* is 41. Great Scott. Chris will be [88]. That's some serious s---," Fox continued.
In the comments, Lloyd responded with a cheeky reference to the iconic sci-fi comedy, quoting a classic line from Fox's Marty McFly: "Man, that's heavy."
It has indeed been over 40 years since *Back to the Future *first launched into theaters, capturing audiences imaginations and establishing a legacy that would carry on through two sequels, an animated TV series, a number of theme park rides, video games, a stage musical, and several books authored by Fox and his costars.
In the first film, Fox's Marty is a high school student who inadvertently travels back in time thanks to the jalopy creation of his scientist friend Emmett "Doc" Brown (Lloyd), unwittingly breaks up his parents, and then scrambles to get them back together to save his own existence.
The cast including Fox, Lloyd, Lea Thompson, and Thomas F. Wilson have remained close over the years, or at least tied tightly together due to the franchise's enduring popularity. Fox and Lloyd previously reunited in 2020, and in 2023, all four of the stars joined forces at FanExpo Portland.
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Fox went on to star in a number of equally successful films and series, from *Spin City *to *Stuart Little *and *The Good Wife*. But he's always returned to *Back to the Future *— most recently in the form of *Future Boy*, a memoir published last year in which he recounts the making of the film.
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Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox in 'Back to the Future' (1985).
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It was well known before *Future Boy *that Fox was not the original choice for the role of Marty McFly; Eric Stoltz shot several weeks of footage in the role before director Robert Zemeckis and producer Steven Spielberg opted to swap Fox in.
In the memoir, Fox recounts how he never got to say his piece to Stoltz about the fateful switch-up, which led to Fox's career completely taking off. Fox wrote that he finally sought Stoltz out while writing the book, and "with a smile, and we quickly acknowledged that neither of us had an issue with the other. What transpired on *Back to the Future* had not made us enemies or fated rivals; we were just two dedicated actors who had poured equal amounts of energy into the same role. The rest had nothing to do with us."
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Published: March 8, 2026 at 05:38PM on Source: PRIME TIME
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