Caffeinated Clint
Last week, the interwobble got all giddy when Disney confirmed that they’d been able to coax Rick Moranis out of retirement for “Shrunk”, a new “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” flick that’ll team the Canadian funnyman with Disney-staple Josh Gad.
The Illuminerdi have landed the casting breakdowns for the pic, which contrary to earlier rumors will go theatrical not be produced for Disney+, and within it, details of the plot. Interestingly enough – and I’m betting the scenario spoke to the actor so much he just couldn’t turn it down – when we meet Moranis’s Wayne Szalinski again he’s recovering from the loss of his wife (the late Marcia Strassman) from Cancer.
Mindful that the family ties have worsened after over time, but apparently hesitant to go up against anybody straightforwardly. He has been tinkering alone in his attic for a considerable length of time, managing the sadness of losing his wife. At the point when we initially meet him, he has inadvertently shrunk himself and is flying around in a similarly tiny drone, continuing the vicious cycle of experimentation that has placed his family in danger plenty of times.
Wayne eventually reveals that he locked himself away to come up with a solution that would shrink his wife’s cancer, and that the guilt consumed him after he ran out of time. Over the course of the film, the truth comes out and the family wounds begin to heal.
In real life, Moranis left the film game to take care of kids after losing his own wife costume designer Ann Belsky to Cancer in 1991.
