“I was so incredibly taken by him because he lost his leg when he was eight years old, but his spirit is so positive - I think we can all be too negative or down or whatever,” Flynn told THR of Glasbrenner. Johnson, who also produces the film, and the other producers tried to ensure that Skyscraper provides an authentic and sympathetic portrayal of amputees, even working with real-life inspiration Jeff Glasbrenner, whom Flynn found on Real Sports. In Skyscraper, Johnson’s character plays a former FBI agent, with a prosthetic leg, who has to rescue his family from a burning building. It’s so hard to make a good movie, so if everything is taken care of on the personal level, it feels like it just frees you up to make the best movie you possibly can.” In our opinion, this is one of Dwayne’s greatest performances, and Rawson is the one who’s able to pull it out of him.”įlynn added, “Once you establish a relationship and shorthand with movie stars and directors and writers, we really want to keep doing that and keep working together. “He executes and he’s so talented,” Garcia said. Garcia said that Skyscraper was sold on a pitch Thurber turned in a first draft of a script that got it greenlighted and they were in production a year later. Retrieved March 7, 2011.Why 'Skyscraper' Director Will Never Make a Sequel to His Cult Classic 'Dodgeball'
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