>>12465296They probably also consulted with him about the wrestling shit. A big role for exec producers is just that. If you want to hear some of the batshit that is out there Kevin Smith talked about the superman film he was at one point going to make, and the exec producers was a nutjob that, outside of his wacky "rituals" he did during conversations about films, was at that period obsessed with trying to work giant spiders into literally everything because he saw a documentary calling them "the deadliest killers in the animal kingdom"
He later was executive producer on wild wild west.