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The newly released trailer for Still one Michael J. Fox movie showcases the life and legacy of the infamous actor through stills and archive footage from his films, interviews, sets and more.
The Oscar-winning Davis Guggenheim-directed documentary tells Fox’s story from early childhood to Hollywood success in the 1980s to battling Parkinson’s disease after being diagnosed at age 29. It contains excerpts from his many iconic films, from Family ties Unpleasant teenage wolf And Back to the futureas well as images of celebratory and significant moments in his personal life.
In the trailer released Thursday, Fox also recalls the moment he first discovered the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease, waking up one morning to find his little finger “automatically animated.” He explained how he tried to hide from it all during the height of his career, but that “all those years of hiding shook me awake”.
“To deny that part of me that wants to go ahead and do things is to stop,” he said in the trailer. “This is what I am. I’m a tough bastard.”
In January at The Hollywood Reporter Studio at the Sundance Film Festival, Fox said he had given Guggenheim total creative freedom with the film and did not want to censor any of the film’s source material.
“I was surprised quite early on, [the legal team] came to me and they said, “You can put in the contract that you have three things you can strike.” And I said, ‘No! Just go shoot the movie. Make the movie,” he explained. “It’s not a movie where I get three things you can’t say about me. It’s a movie about my life, and if we really want to be about it, let the filmmakers have access to that.’”
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie premieres May 12 on Apple TV+. Watch the trailer below.