Whereas Mitchell served because the director, the movie was written by Paul Hernandez, Bob Schooley, and Mark McCorkle. Russell’s function in “Sky Excessive” was important however did not require an excessive amount of display time, and he loved the script. “I noticed a number of laughs, visually a number of snigger traces, might be a enjoyable character to play and I believe the film has one thing to say on the finish of the day,” he mentioned. “In that vein, I imagine it is the basic strategy to a Disney film, the sort I used to do there.” (In his baby actor days, Russell acted in a number of Disney movies.) He recalled Mitchell agreeing and claiming that the basic strategy to Disney was exactly what he needed to do. However then Russell was despatched a rewrite — one which he completely hated.
“It was all of the sudden, I felt, due to the best way it had been tweaked, it was nasty, it had a meanness to it that no one else was seeing,” he mentioned. Russell spoke with Mitchell and emphasised that the movie he needed to make was the basic Disney tackle the story, which, happily, was the movie Mitchell was additionally combating to make. In an interview with Inverse, McCorkle credited Mitchell with desirous to embrace the colourful playfulness of comedian books. “Mike had a imaginative and prescient of vibrant colours and it being pleasant and upbeat,” McCorkle mentioned, realizing that the ask was in opposition of the favored superhero fare on the time, like Christopher Nolan’s “Batman Begins.” Per the interview with Kurt Russell, he did not need to do the darker-toned film, and pushed for the family-friendly model. “They mentioned, ‘Sure, that is what we need to do. That is the highway we need to go down,’ I mentioned, ‘Okay, depend me in, let’s go.'” Russell and Mitchell had been capable of make the movie they’d envisioned, and the remaining is historical past.