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I look back at Honey I Shrunk The Kids with great nostalgia – it was one of my most vivid memories of going to the cinema when I was a kid. It’s a great movie, so it should come as no surprise in this day and age that it potentially set for a reboot in the near future.
The news comes from /Film who have it on good authority from three sources that Walt Disney Pictures has signed Josh Gad to lead the cast of a reboot of the classic family movie.
The original movie was released 30 years ago (nearly to the day) back in 1989 and starred the superb Rick Moranis as a dad who shrinks his two kids, along with two of the neighbours’ children, to the size of insects. He must then go on an adventure to save them from the many dangers of the micro-world to which he has exposed them.
Joe Johnston directed the original film. /Film say that the new film will be titled Shrunk, and will be set 30 years after the original with Gad playing scientist and inventor Wayne Szalinski’s son, Nick Szalinski. The film will reportedly be a ‘legecyequel’ and set in the same world as the original – it will probably very similar to how the recent Jumanji reboot was handled, a film that has already spawned its own sequel and bagged hundreds of millions of dollars in box-office takings.
You can read more about Shrunk at the end of the link above.
Gad will next be heard in The Angry Birds Movie 2, which was launched over in Cannes earlier this week.
