Michael J. Fox Documentary About Superstardom, Parkinson’s — Release Date

5-time Emmy winner Michael J. Fox unpacks his life story within the forthcoming Apple TV+ documentary STILL: A Michael J. Fox Film.

Premiering Friday, Might 12, the movie incorporates “documentary, archival and scripted components,” and can “recount Fox’s extraordinary story in his personal phrases — the unbelievable story of an undersized child from a Canadian military base who rose to the heights of stardom in Nineteen Eighties Hollywood,” in accordance with the official logline. “The account of Fox’s public life, stuffed with nostalgic thrills and cinematic gloss, will unspool alongside his never-before-seen non-public journey, together with the years that adopted his prognosis, at 29, with Parkinson’s illness.

“Intimate and trustworthy, and produced with unprecedented entry to Fox and his household, the movie will chronicle Fox’s private {and professional} triumphs and travails and can discover what occurs when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable illness,” the logline continues. “With a mixture of journey and romance, comedy and drama, watching the movie will really feel like… effectively, like a Michael J. Fox film.”

Fox’s breakout function got here in 1982, when he was forged as Alex P. Keaton on the hit NBC household comedy Household Ties; the function earned him three consecutive Emmys for Excellent Lead Actor in a Comedy Sequence, in 1986, 1987 and 1988. He took residence his fourth Emmy in 2000, additionally for Lead Actor in a Comedy, for his last season as Spin Metropolis Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty. A fifth Emmy, for Excellent Visitor Actor in a Drama Sequence, got here in 2009, following a memorable activate FX’s Rescue Me.

He’s maybe greatest identified for enjoying protagonist Marty McFly within the Again to the Future movie trilogy. Extra large display screen credit embody Teen Wolf, The Secret of My Success, Casualties of Struggle, Doc Hollywood, The Frighteners and Atlantis: The Misplaced Empire.

Press PLAY on the trailer above, then hit the feedback and inform us in the event you’ll be including STILL: A Michael J. Fox Film to your Apple TV+ watchlist.