Reeves Weidemann

He's not a natural actor.

He's not a naturally charismatic person, which I think has sort of carried over into his business life a little bit.

So I think thankfully for him, he realized pretty early on the acting thing was not exactly going to take and he was going to have to figure out some other way to make it in the business.

And so he becomes a money man.

Basically, he sort of got this notion that many people get when they get into Hollywood, especially when they have a little bit of money behind them, is I'm going to start a production company.

And he actually initially went around, tried to sort of find some investors to pour some money into this company.

Um, that would, would make various movies primarily sort of focused on the kinds of movies David liked, which were sort of action adventure movies.

Movies with planes, apparently.

Movies with planes was kind of, there was, has been a running joke that David, who was a pilot himself when he was younger, sort of a stunt pilot doing like 360 barrel rolls, those kinds of things.

that if you put a plane in a movie, that David was going to be into it.

Explosions, those kinds of things.

Ultimately, he got basically all of the money for the company came from his dad.

And the company is Skydance.

The company's called Skydance.

And what they were able to do very early on is they got a deal with Paramount.

And Paramount at the time was kind of a struggling movie studio.

It's one of the legendary movie studios in Hollywood.

But at the time, it was sort of being mismanaged and not that successful.

And they were happy to have David come in

with some money to help them finance and make some movies.