Illumination Cinema's third feature film. Their second live action film.
Returning crew from the original film includes Tyler W. Moore as a co-writer, composer and editor and Christopher Strong as cinematographer.
David Wayne Young's first feature as a director and writer.
The movie is based on a short film Illumination Cinema made in the summer of 2014. The original short was written by Tyler W. Moore and Christopher Strong. Strong was the director of the short film.
After much consideration, the Illumination Cinema team concluded that they would not be able to have the cast from the original short film return as those actors were located in Texas and the new film was being shot in Wichita, Kansas.