What did he think of Back to the Future?

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I'm dying to meet him, so I can ask him that very same thing -- and have him sign my poster.

You have to respect Crispin for his choices. He's Hollywood's eccentric... a less-famous version of Johnny Depp. (women would kill me for saying that!)

I'm also wondering if he kept in touch with Michael, as BTTF was the 2nd time they worked together.

I totally agree with the Johnny Depp comment. Watching Alice in Wonderland last night I first thought JD was playng two parts until i looked closely.

Apparantly he has always had a bit of an ego issue, BTTF2 ended up with a lookalike because his demands far exceeded that of an actor at his stage in his career, i've heard this sort of thing a few times about him. Personally i like him, he's quirky and really quite sinister...memorable even, but when your ego costs you work in big movies it's time to step back and look at yourself.

Crispin has let it be known on multiple occasions that Bob Gale lied about the monetary aspects in order to obfuscate the illegal activities that the producers had perpetrated. The interesting thing is that people focus more on what the producers who did this illegal thing is than the person who was innocent of any wrong doing. People should realize that there are new laws in the Screen Actors Guild because of Crispin's brave lawsuit against the wrong doers in this situation. Crispin Glover did not do anything wrong or illegal, but someone like Bob Gale who has lied and perpetrated illegal activity should hang his head in shame. It should be noted that Bob Gale has not worked in the film industry since 2004 and as of 2008 became a regular writer for Spider Man. Steven Spielberg purchased many of Bob Gale’s screenplays and never produced them. This may have contributed to rendering Bob Gale out of work in the film industry. It is possible this was a retaliatory gesture by Steven Spielberg for involving him in a lawsuit that ended up causing changes in SAG rules so producers and actors can never do something like that again. Negative things said about Crispin on the Back to the Future DVD are by Bob Gale and he may be bitter about these things. But maybe it is all coincidence.

SAG has agreements with the Producers - calling them laws as if they have a legal standing beyond terms in any contract doesn't suggest that you are an objective source. SAG makes demands - more than they expect to achieve - the studios make a counter offer and eventually they reach an agreement. That's the way that contract negotiations work. The BTTF2 situation would occur so rarely (about once in almost a century apparently) that the studios would happily accept that trivial clause rather than something of any real significance to them.

Crispin Glover has a different story to the one which makes him look greedy. Well that's hardly surprising, whatever the truth.
However, on apparently no further evidence, you believe his version to the extent that you libel another person on this and other boards.
I do hope you are never on a jury.

Crispin Glover's lawsuit was not about using footage from the original film. That is something that has been put forth by the producers of the film to obfuscate their wrong-doing. What Crispin Glover's lawsuit was about was the fact that the producers had hired another actor and put that actor in prosthetic makeup to make that actor look like Crispin Glover. The producers then inter-spliced a very small amount of footage of Crispin Glover from the original film in order to fool audiences in to believing that Crispin Glover was in the film. Anyone who questions this should take a look around the Internet as it is readily available online or they can look at the public record of the original case and then Screen Actors Guild subsequent change of laws in their rules and laws. Because Crispin Glover's lawsuit there are now rules/laws in the Screen Actors Guild that make it so producers can never do this again. No one has to take any single person's post on the IMDB about this as fact. It is all over the Internet. What the producers did was wrong and Crispin Glover's lawsuit was precedent setting. It should be understood very precisely that was the producers did was wrong and by definition illegal. Copyright infringement is illegal. Crispin Glover's lawsuit was precedent setting in that it specifically established that an actor has a copyright on his own person. The producers of Back to the Future owned the name George McFly, but they did not own Crispin Glover or his features. By the producers using casts they had of Crispin Glover's head to make prosthetics to put on to another actor they effectively were stealing Crispin Glover's copyrighted image. That copyrighted image being Crispin Glover's own self. This is by definition copyright infringement and also by definition copyright infringement is illegal. No one has been slandered here. It is a matter of public record. What the producers of Back to the Future 2 did was both wrong and by definition illegal. If anyone wants to call anyone greedy it should be the people who perpetrated illegal activity by stealing copyrighted material for their own gain to be called greedy. Illegal activity is often done to satisfy people’s greed. In this case it was the producers of Back to the Future who were by definition perpetrating illegal activity and because of that you could easily call the producers of Back to the Future greedy. It seems evident that the producers of the those films have attempted to put spins on their own wrong doing to make it seem like what they did was not wrong but again by definition what the producers did was copyright infringement and therefor by definition illegal.

Hey, asignmentpast, I'm glad you chimed in here on this subject, because I'm a little confused. :)

The funny thing about this infamous story is that the story changes depending on who tells it - either Bob or Crispin. Since we've heard both sides of the story, I won't bother rehashing. I'm still wondering who's telling the full truth. However, I will say this. I helped organize a big fan celebration of the BTTF trilogy back in November and I talked to a fan who, through the good ol' 7 degrees of separation gave me a quote from Bruce, Crispin's dad. He said Crispin doesn't associate with those people anymore (which leads me to another question that I'll address in a second), they F'd him over on the sequels. Here's the good part - he said Crispin wanted, among other things, script approval AND Michael's same deal. I don't know how true that is, but the script approval sounds like Crispin.

But here's the conclusion I've come to.... Crispin made a bad decision in saying no to the sequels. And what the producers did was wrong. But life's too short to focus on all these wrongs and whatnot, I prefer to focus on how good the movies are and how much I enjoy them. :)

Lastly, the other thing I'm curious about... given that Michael and Crispin had worked together before, I'm wondering if they've kept in touch since the movies?