When Michael J. Fox was approached by an Academy Award-winning producer to make a movie of his slow, smothering embrace by Parkinson’s disease, the retired movie and TV star demanded only one condition.
That there be “no conditions,” said Fox.
Producer Davis Guggenheim, who already had an Oscar for An Inconvenient Truth was willing to give Fox a producer’s sign-off to get at the core of the story of a brilliant career decimated by a chronic disease. But Fox didn’t want it.
“He said, ‘Well, here’s the way I work, you get three objections to three major plot points,’ and I said, ‘No, that’s
