Honey, I Shrunk the Kids’ Rick Moranis making comeback for sequel

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids star Rick Moranis is returning to appearing to look within the upcoming reboot.

The film, titled Shrunk, additionally sees the return of authentic director Joe Johnston and can star Frozen‘s Josh Gad because the son to Moranis’s character Wayne Szalinski.

News of Moranis’s casting was confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter.

The function would be the actor’s first live-action movie since 1997’s straight-to-video Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves.

Moranis took a break from appearing to concentrate on elevating his two kids following the demise of his spouse, costume designer Ann Belsky, in 1991.

He instructed USA Today in 2005: “I’m a single guardian, and I simply discovered that it was too troublesome to handle elevating my children and doing the travelling concerned in making motion pictures. So I took a bit little bit of a break. And the little little bit of a break become an extended break, after which I discovered that I actually did not miss it.

“In the previous few years I’ve been supplied quite a lot of elements in motion pictures, and I’ve simply turned them down. I do not know whether or not I’ll return to it or not. I’ve been doing a whole lot of writing and a whole lot of parenting, and now I’m doing this.”

Moranis beforehand turned down the prospect to look in Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters reboot, explaining that it “made no sense” to him.

He instructed The Hollywood Reporter in 2015: “Why would I do just one day of shooting on something I did 30 years ago?”

Explaining that he wasn’t formally retired from appearing, Moranis added: “I took a break, which turned into a longer break.”

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