Posted on 02/12/2020 4:24:55 PM PST by EdnaMode
Rick Moranis is leaving his decades-long hiatus from live-action acting to join Disney’s sequel to its 1989 blockbuster “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids,” Variety has confirmed.
Moranis will reprise his role as Wayne Szalinski, the crackpot scientist who accidentally shrunk his children (and the neighbor’s kids), then accidentally made his infant child enormous in 1992’s “Honey, I Blew Up the Kid,” and then accidentally shrunk himself and his wife in the 1997 straight-to-video sequel “Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves!” — which was also the last time Moranis acted in a live-action feature.
In the new film, which has the aptly condensed title “Shrunk,” Josh Gad will play Szalinski’s son (played by young actor Robert Oliveri in the 1989 and 1992 films), who, yes, accidentally shrinks his family. Original director Joe Johnston is returning to make the sequel, with Todd Rosenberg writing the script.
After cutting his teeth on the Canadian sketch series “SCTV,” Moranis was one of the most in-demand comic actors of the 1980s and 1990s, starring in 1984’s “Ghostbusters” and its 1989 sequel, Mel Brooks’ 1987 “Star Wars” spoof “Spaceballs,” Ron Howard’s 1989 ensemble dramedy “Parenthood,” and the 1994 live-action “The Flintstones” remake. Collectively, his films have earned over $1 billion at the domestic box office, not adjusting for inflation.
Since 1997, however, Moranis has worked sporadically, doing voice-over work (2003’s “Brother Bear,” a 2018 episode of “The Goldbergs”) as well as a couple comedy albums, after stepping away from acting to raise his children in the wake of his wife’s death from cancer.
Deadline first reported Moranis’ casting.
His “I’m your brothers best friends nephew” Dark Helmut routine was super. The Gate Keeper. Mel Brooks needs to get it rolling.
“Honey, I Shrunk the Sequel”
Take Off Hoser!!
We'll be right back.
I thought “Little Shop of Horrors” was great also.
It seems like I go back and watch it every year.
Plus John Candy, Joan Rivers, and Dick Van Patten are all deceased. You can’t have a Spaceballs sequel without Barf.
Does Princess Vespa still need a “Virgin Alarm”?
Hopefully not, especially since She and Lonestar married at the end of the film. But you really need some of those characters. You could probably get away without King Roland of Druidia.
I’m surrounded by Assholes!
Daphne Zuniga was just on an episode of NCIS. She’s aged decently.
Aren’t we all. I shave one according to my wife every morning. LMAO
What, no “Strange Brew 2: The Hosers Strike Back” ?
It’s my understanding that he left his lucrative career to raise his children after his wife died. If this is true he is a wonderful person.
Never saw this or it’s sequel, Honey I Blew the Baby. I was in my teens already and put this crap in the same category as Harry and the Hendersons or Cops and Robbersons. Forgettable family entertainment.
Take off, eh?
He did a great Dick Cavett as well.
I would think he wouldn’t want to do one of those “Shrunk” sequels because like his real-life wife, co-star Marcia “Mrs. Kotter” Strassman has since passed away.
I... can't... breathe...
When I was a widdle widdle boy, I had a crush on Mrs. Kotter.
How about: Honey, I shrunk Bloomberg.
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