Moranis has only taken on the occasional voice role over the 25 years, but he did make an appearance on the Disney+ docuseries Prop Culture in 2020. He appeared in an episode about the props used in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.
While Moranis left Hollywood to focus on being present for his children, he didn't express regret over his decision. "I was working with really interesting people, wonderful people. I went from that to being at home with a couple of little kids, which is a very different lifestyle.
The last live-action project that Moranis appeared in was 1997's Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves. The TV movie was a spin-off from Moranis' popular comedy franchise, which began in 1989 with Honey I Shrunk The Kids.
During a 2015 interview he confessed that the idea of doing a short cameo in a Ghostbusters project didn't “appeal” to him. “I hope it's terrific. But it just makes no sense to me,” Moranis said of the 2016 Ghostbusters. “Why would I do just one day of shooting on something I did 30 years ago?”
The role was offered to Michael Keaton, Chevy Chase, and Steve Guttenberg but they all turned it down, with Chase later sharing that the script he read wasn't the one used in the film, and was dark and scary. Other actors considered for the role were Tom Hanks and Robin Williams.
Yet, if memory serves, Ghostbusters 2016 was the first time a cast and crew fought back. Everyone from writer/director Paul Feig to co-star Leslie Jones has blasted fans in one way, shape, or form, pointing to misogyny toward the predominantly female cast as a reason the “requel” failed at the box office.
Bob and Doug became a pop-culture phenomenon, which led to a top-selling and Grammy-nominated album, Great White North, and the 1983 movie Strange Brew, Moranis's first major film role. Another notable Moranis character on SCTV was Gerry Todd, a disc jockey who presented music clips on television.
He joined the Canadian TV series, SCTV (1976), winning an Emmy for writing and portraying the character, Bob McKenzie, which became the basis for the film, Strange Brew (1983), which he co-wrote, co-directed and made his film acting debut.
Rick Moranis Will Return to the Big Screen in New 'Honey, I Shrunk The Kids' Movie. Rick Moranis will return to acting for the his first live-action role in more than 20 years with a Disney feature film follow-up to Honey, I Shrunk The Kids. He'll play his original character, Wayne Szalinski, alongside Josh Gad.
The actor has rarely been on screen since the 2000s. However, that almost changed when he was approached to do a brief cameo in 2016's Ghostbusters starring Melissa McCarthy. However, the actor had no interest in reprising the role in the film because it made no sense to him.
While he tried to toss the question towards his writing mate and producer Jason Reitman, Kenan fessed up they hadn't penned a spot for Moranis. He said Sigourney Weaver's Dana Barrett also got axed from Frozen Empire since there wasn't a fitting plotline for her.
Sigourney Weaver's Dana does not appear in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. Director Gil Kenan explains Dana's absence was due to an already full cast. Any Ghostbusters 6 should bring back Sigourney Weaver as Dana for a grounded comedic perspective.
After graduating in 1990, he worked as a sports broadcaster on local cable before studying acting and comedy. After a year of training with the Los Angeles improv comedy group the Groundlings, he became a member of the company, and in 1995 he was invited to join the television sketch show Saturday Night Live (SNL).
Ferrell first established himself in the mid-1990s as a cast member on the sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, where he performed from 1995 to 2002, and has subsequently starred in a string of comedy films.
Before Robert Carradine was cast as the chief nerd in the film, Lewis Skolnick, producers sought to cast Rick Moranis in the role. Moranis declined the part since he already played such an iconic nerd named Louis in Ghostbusters.
In Chinese culture, spirits and ghosts played a huge part and were highly revered and respected. However, with the arrival of Communism in China, secularism was enforced and any depiction of ghosts or spirits was expressly forbidden.
The script is pretty mediocre and that ends up making the movie far from a good reboot. Even the cameos by the actors from the original movie don't help much. This Ghostbuster movie is sadly a failed reboot and because of that it is the most inferior installment in the entire franchise.
Instead, the film earned $215.4 million during its theatrical run compared with the original's $282.2 million, making it the eighth-highest-grossing film of the year. Columbia Pictures deemed it a financial and critical failure, effectively dissuading Murray from participating in a third Ghostbusters film.
