Robert Ford Wilson, the son of Owen who recently turned one, is no longer planned on as a cast member.
Robert was considered (by me) for the main character's preschool-age son. If I'm trying to have part one of the movie come out in time for November 2014, he will seem too young. And if I want the main character's grandparents to be played by Mickey Rooney (born in 1920) and Betty White (born in 1922), I'd have to shoot their scenes first before they pass away.
R.F. may also be too young to act yet. The DVD commentary for Finding Nemo describes how it was much easier to work with six-year-old Nicholas Bird (who played Squirt) than toddler Mary Gibbs, who played Boo in Monsters, Inc. Some scientists say the human brain does not capacitate memory until age three. And even in Judy Blume's book Tales of a Fourth-Grade Nothing, Fudge is three and has issues filming a Toddlebike commercial.
But maybe someday when RFW is older, I'll consider him for a part.
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