 When the Special Edition DVD was released, Robert Zemeckis (qv)  stated in an interview for a newspaper that Bill Murray (I) (qv)  was his and producer Steven Spielberg (I) (qv)s original choice  for the role of Eddie Valiant but neither could get in contact with  him in time. Bill Murray states in interviews that when he read the  interview he was in a public place at the time but he still screamed  his lungs out, because he would have definitely accepted the role.