Disney has set its eyes on a reboot of the beloved film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids but under the new title of Shrunk. While fans of Rick Moranis were disappointed the actor didn’t reprise his role of Louis Tully in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, it seems the role of Wayne Szalinski, the goofy inventor in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids was something the actor just couldn’t turn down.
According to The DisInsider, this was the pitch for the reboot:
Aware that the family ties have loosened over time but seemingly afraid to confront anyone directly. He has been tinkering alone in his attic for decades, dealing with the grief of losing his wife. When we first meet him, he has accidentally shrunk himself and is flying around on a shrunken drone — seemingly lost in a continuous of tinkering and experimenting that often puts himself and his family in jeopardy. He later reveals he shut himself away to try and invent a solution to help shrink Diane’s cancer but found it hard to cope when he ran out of time. His guilt and shame is palpable. Through the crisis of the kids getting shrunk, the truth emerges and the bonds begin to redevelop between him and his kids.
Disney’s Shrunk will supposedly begin filming early this year with a rumored release date of 2021.
