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 Disneys 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 neighbors kids), then accidentally made his infant child enormous in 1992s 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 Szalinskis 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 1984s Ghostbusters and its 1989 sequel, Mel Brooks 1987 Star Wars spoof Spaceballs, Ron Howards 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 (2003s 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 wifes death from cancer.
Deadline first reported Moranis casting.
Marcia Strassman has passed on.
It just won’t be the same.
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