The principal actors and actresses had committed to the sequels before any scripts were written. However, there was a stumbling block in negotiations with Crispin Glover (George McFly in Ritorno al futuro (1985)), who stated that he was offered a monetary amount less than half of what Lea Thompson and Tom Wilson were being paid to return. Glover believed this was due to producer Bob Gale taking exception to his voicing his disapproval of the original ending of the first film (where the McFlys viewed money and material possessions as rewards), causing a script change. During sequel negotiations, his agent expressed to producers that Glover wanted fair compensation, in addition to a script approval clause in his contract. [Bob Gale] refused to give in to either of these requests, instead offering a lower salary amount than the first offer. After Glover turned down the low-ball offer of $125,000, Gale re-wrote the sequel script to lessen George McFly's screen time. Jeffrey Weissman was cast as George and, using molds of Glover made on the set of the first film, was dressed in facial prosthetics to look like him, so that they could incorporate excerpts from the original movie. All shots of Weissman either show him from behind, at a distance, upside down or with sunglasses, in effect fooling audiences into believing that Glover had taken part in the sequel.

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