By Nearly twenty years ago, Disney’s Buena Vista Pictures Distribution label released “Sky High” – a family oriented superhero ensemble piece.
Reviews were positive and while the film only brought in $86.4 million dollars at the box office from a $35 million budget, it has been a subsequent cult success on video and streaming.
Disney put a sequel and a spin-off series into early development many years ago but never seemed to move forward on that. Still, that work has resulted in some concepts being done, and the film’s director, Mike Mitchell, recently spoke about them.
Talking with Comicbook.com to promote the home media release of “Kung Fu Panda 4,” Mitchell says if they were to go ahead he would make it a priority to bring back as much of the original ensemble cast as possible:
“All the original kids would be back again, including Cousin Greg [from ‘Succession’]. That was one of his [actor Nicholas Braun] first films. Mary Elizabeth Winsted as Royal Pain, Kurt Russell would have to be back as well.
We figured all the kids are now grown up and they’re all university teachers at a place called Save U. You just take all that fun and we bring it from the high school into the college years. It would be such a blast.”
The cast was pretty strong and also included Michael Angarano, Kelly Preston, Steven Strait, Danielle Panabaker, Dee Jay Daniels, Kelly Vitz, Jake Sandvig, Will Harris, Kevin Heffernan, Lynda Carter, Dave Foley and Bruce Campbell.
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