Onward director Dan Scanlon has been very open about the fact that the basic story of Onward was inspired by his own life, as his own father passed away when he was a baby. And so, while the movie was always about two brothers trying to communicate with their dead father, the mechanics of how that worked changed quite a lot over time. Scanlon tells Comicbook.com that one early version of the story, they actually brought their father back a piece at a time over the course of the story. According to Scanlon…
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