"He does not survive that initial test flight The test flight in the thing where he's gonna be he dies it fails and everything you see after that is his Fantasy of what his life you're talking. You're talking birdman." "It's gotten better. She's this phantom version of what he thinks he deserves right like it's interesting It's gotten better ... I've written a lot more than one scene, but they don't have enough time for them to go through all these different takes on him," says director/producer Robert Zemeckis. 'This whole thing deserves to be a real yeah, right?'