Hoyt Axton was director Joe Dante's first choice for the role of Billy's father having seen and loved him as the dad in Black Stallion (1979). They auditioned others including Pat Hingle who gave the best reading and "played this character as a sort of Saroyan-esque, failed inventor whose life was fading fast, and he was brilliant, I mean he was incredible. He was so good we couldn't hire him because that wasn't what this character was about."

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