Three years after being officially announced, the new film in the franchise “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids” is in the dark and may never see the light of day…
Immediately announced, already cancelled? The fate of the reboot of Honey, I shrunk the kids, cult film of the 1990s, does not seem to be radiant. The feature film featuring the surprising encounter of the Szalinski children and their little neighbors Thompson, reduced to the size of a chip by a totally crazy invention, had made 130 million dollars on American soil the year of its release. , in 1989, and $222 million worldwide. The adventure was then devoured by a whole generation.
The sequel, which was to see Rick Moranis (Professor Szalinski) resume the role he held in the American comedy, was announced in 2020. And we were already looking forward to finding the characters. But three years and a pandemic later, the feature film has still not started filming or even production, so the project seemed to have been completely forgotten.
A sequel that will depend on the fans
Comedian Josh Gad (Beauty and the Beast, Frozen), who was set to star in the film, recently gave some bleak news about the progress of production. A few days ago, he explained on his Twitter account: “Many of you ask me where the film is at. In truth, we were about to start production when the Covid arrived, we were on the about to start again when my schedule became too full, we were about to start again when there were budget problems.”
Josh Gad then called out fans for Honey, I shrunk the kids to express their interest in the film, so that it could eventually see the light of day: “If you want this film, let Disney know!” It does not seem that, for the moment, that the solicitations of the fans have had a concrete impact on the project, the studio of Mickey having not announced the start of production of the reboot. For now.