Originally a number of the actors who appeared in the SH movie were signed to contracts for a SH TV series.Unfortunately this fun film did not do well at the box office & the TV series for it was abandoned.A pity,it would have great!
shareIt actually did really well at the box office and doubled it's budget, and nearly trippled it interntionally, and thats on cinema goers alone.
I'm guessing it had more to do with costing the series, when most Disney shows from the time were really cheap three/four set deals with only a couple of cameras.
Thanks for the info legion quest,always thought that the film did poorly at the box office.Now I'm even more mad at Disney for not transitioning SH from film to TV.While it would indeed have been expensive to do SH as a weekly TV show,it could have been achieved when you see what can be accomplished in such recent sf TV series as the four Star Trek spin-offs,Seaquest DSV,Farscape,Babylon 5,new Battlestar Galactica.And I'm guessing that Disney would have put a "fold & hold" order on the sets used in the SH movie so that they could be resurrected for the TV version.That alone would have saved them enormous money on set construction.Irwin Allen did this with his Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea TV show(1964-68).He saved a fortune by utilizing the sets built of the Seaview submarine for the 1961 movie of the same name.He also had the models of the sub from the movie which he could employ in his TV series,along with stock footage from the film.
shareI guess the closest thing to "Sky High: The Series" would be "No Ordinary Family" on ABC. It even stars Kay Panabaker (Danielle Panabaker's younger sister) as Daphne, the Powells' daughter who can read people's thoughts.
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"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" 10/10
"Tangled" 9/10