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- Michael J. Fox will publish Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum, PEOPLE can exclusively reveal
- The Emmy-winner looks back on the year 1985, when he simultaneously played two of his most iconic roles: Marty McFly in Back to the Future and Alex P. Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties
- The book, out this fall, arrives ahead of Back to the Future's 40th anniversary in July
Michael J. Fox is headed back to the past in a new book.
The Emmy-winning actor, 63, shared the cover of his latest memoir exclusively with PEOPLE. Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum, co-written with Nelle Fortenberry, will be published by Flatiron Books this fall.
Future Boy delves into a specific time in Fox’s storied career: namely the year 1985, when the actor was steadily rising to fame as Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties. That same year, Fox landed his landmark role as Marty McFly in Robert Zemeckis’ classic film Back to the Future — a character he would reprise in the franchise’s two sequels, Back to the Future Part II and Back to the Future Part III.
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Fox found himself working on Family Ties during the day and filming Back to the Future at night, and his new book details what it was like to play two iconic roles at the same time.
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Future Boy will also include new interviews with cast members from both projects, to share a “slice of entertainment history that’s never been told," per the book's description.
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The release of Future Boy coincides with Back to the Future celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2025. Fox tells PEOPLE just how chaotic that period in his career really was.
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“‘The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.’ I didn’t say that, Einstein did,” Fox says. “I wonder if even Albert could make sense of my life in the first months of 1985, when time went rogue and took me with it. What was it like? In a word: busy.”
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“As we approach the 40th anniversary of Back to the Future, my thoughts turn to my adventures as a younger man,” he continues. “This book has basically become a time machine for me, but unlike the DeLorean, there’s plenty of room for anyone who’d like to climb in for the ride.”
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Fox is also the bestselling author of memoirs A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future, Always Looking Up, Lucky Man and No Time Like the Future.
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In No Time Like the Future, published in 2020, Fox reflected on his onscreen career, as well as his outlook on life following his diagnosis with Parkinson’s disease at age 29. Fox is a staunch advocate for Parkinson's awareness, particularly through The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.
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“What’s exciting for me is that this new book is less memoir and more perspective — I consider questions I believe we all have about our lives,” Fox previously said of the book. “Who am I? Where am I? Where am I going? I don’t want to give anything away, but I think I’ve figured it out.” Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey Through the Space-Time Continuum
