Skyscraper is both written and directed by American filmmaker Rawson Marshall Thurber,
director of the films Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, We're the Millers, and Central Intelligence previously.
«A
dodgeball movie is uncharted
film territory,» says Rawson Marshall Thurber, the
film's writer /
director, «but at the same time it inhabits the same tradition
of great underdog movies like «Stripes,» «The Bad News Bears» and «Meatballs,» which follow an archetypal comedy framework: scrappy underdogs take on the socially, financially or athletically gifted and prevail against all odds.»