Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
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Created by	Stuart Gordon Brian Yuzna Ed Naha
Original work	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Owner	The Walt Disney Company
Films and television
Film(s)	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Television series	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997–2000)
Direct-to-video	Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997)
Miscellaneous
Theme park attraction(s)	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: Movie Set Adventure (1990–2016) Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (1994–2010)

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids is an Americanscience fiction comedy media franchise, based on a concept created byStuart Gordon andBrian Yuzna, and an original story co-written by Gordon, Yuzna, andEd Naha. The franchise focuses around the Szalinski family, particularly the father, Wayne Szalinski, who is a struggling inventor whose inventions unintentionally cause trouble and mishaps.

The first installment,Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989), and its subsequent financial and critical success, led to two sequels and a television series;Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992),Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves (1997), andHoney, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show (1997–2000), respectively. A fourth film titledShrunk entered production in 2019 and is indevelopment hell.

This continued in 1999 when theHoney, I Shrunk the Kids films, along with a number of other Disney film series, were combined into a franchise as a part ofDisney Parks' attractions where elements from each movie were included.

Rick Moranis stars as Wayne Szalinski, an eccentric inventor who accidentally shrinks his kids, Amy (Amy O'Neill) and Nick (Robert Oliveri) as well as the next-door neighbor's sons, Russ Jr. (Thomas Wilson Brown) and Ron Thompson (Jared Rushton).Marcia Strassman portrays his wife, Diane, to whom he delivers the titular line.Matt Frewer andKristine Sutherland also star as Russ and Mae Thompson, Russ Jr. and Ron's parents.

Three years after the events of the first film, the Szalinskis have moved to a new neighborhood and given birth to their third child, Adam (Joshua and Daniel Shalikar). Nick is now a teenager and Amy is heading off to college. Wayne has given up his shrink ray days and invented an alternative which makes objects grow in size. One day when Adam is exposed to its effects, he mistakes Nick and his crush, Mandy Park (Keri Russell), as toys and wanders into Las Vegas. While Wayne and Diane race to reverse his effects, Wayne's insolent coworker, Dr. Charles Hendrickson (John Shea), has overpowered Sterling Labs, rounded up the military, and ordered Adam to be stopped at all costs.

Wayne is now banned from using his shrink ray by the committee of the U.S.Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Nick is now away at college and Adam (Bug Hall) is ten years old. Diane (Eve Gordon) is planning a vacation with her sister-in-law, Patti (Robin Bartlett), while Wayne and his brother, Gordon (Stuart Pankin), watch Adam and his cousins, Jenny and Mitch (Allison Mack andJake Richardson). While tampering with the shrink ray, Wayne accidentally shrinks himself, Diane, Gordon, and Patti. The kids have a party in the house after thinking they have it to themselves. The adults struggle to get their attention before disaster strikes among them.

In February 2018 a reboot film was in development, with the project being courted for aDisney+ exclusive.^[1] By March 2019, this changed when the project was announced to be alegacy sequel to the original trilogy. WithThe Walt Disney Studios developing the film for theatrical release,Josh Gad was announced to star as Nick Szalinski. The plot would reportedly have centered around Nick following in Wayne's footsteps and becoming a scientist and inventor, accidentally shrinking his son and two daughters to five inches tall.^[2] By December, Joe Johnston had entered early negotiations to return to the franchise as director.^[3]

In January 2020, Rick Moranis entered early negotiations to come out of his acting retirement, and reprise his role as Wayne Szalinski. Johnston was confirmed to direct, with Todd Rosenberg set to write the script, from an original story by Gad, Ryan Dixon, Ian Helfer, and Jay Reiss. By February, Moranis had officially signed onto the project to reprise his role.David Hoberman andTodd Lieberman would serve as producers. The film would be a joint-venture production between Walt Disney Pictures andMandeville Films, withWalt Disney Studios Motion Pictures as the distributing company.^[4] Principal photography was scheduled to begin in early 2020, with filming taking place inToronto, as well asAtlanta, Georgia.^{[5][better source needed]} In March of the same year, filming on all Disney projects were halted due to theCOVID-19 pandemic and industry restrictions worldwide.^[6] In November, Disney CEOBob Chapek announced that filming on all movies that had been postponed by the coronavirus had resumed.^[7] In June 2021, Gad stated that filming had not yet started and that he was hoping the shoot would begin in early 2022.^[8] In January 2022, Gad stated that he and Moranis had once again started collaborating in preparation for the sequel.^[9] In June 2023, Gad revealed onTwitter that the project has beenput on hold indefinitely, although he expressed hope that production would resume in the future.^[10]

The television series, exclusive toDisney Channel, expanded upon the original film's concept where a shrinking experiment had gone wrong, to include a variety of experiments malfunctioning and causing unfortunate circumstances for the Szalinskis. It debuted on September 1, 1997, and ran for three consecutive seasons. It concluded after the 66th episode aired on May 20, 2000. It was a joint-production between Plymouth Productions,St. Clare Entertainment, andWalt Disney Television; while Buena Vista Television distributed the show through Disney Channel.

A4-D movie-ride attraction titledHoney, I Shrunk the Audience! debuted atEpcot in 1994 and featured at the Disney theme parks until 2010.Rick Moranis,Marcia Strassman,Robert Oliveri, and Daniel and Joshua Shalikar reprise their roles from the feature-length films. While being given an award by Dr. Nigel Channing (Eric Idle) about his shrink ray, Wayne accidentally shrinks the audience and sends them on an adventure with rats, snakes, and babies.

In 1999, the theme ofJourney into Imagination was changed and retitled to includeFigment. It features Dr. Nigel Channing, fromHoney, I Shrunk the Audience!, who "hosts" an area known as theImagination Institute. The story states that his grandfather established the institute, while the area features references to Wayne Szalinski, as well as Dr. Philip Brainard fromFlubber and Dean Higgins (Joe Flynn's role in theDexter Riley films).Walt Disney andThomas Edison also make an appearance.

Opened in 1990, the attraction was a playground area atDisney's Hollywood Studios, designed to look like a movie set for the giant backyard scenes of the first film. It closed in 2016.

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