Trivia / Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves

• This is the only installment of the Honey franchise in which Nick Szalinski does not appear.

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• Creator Killer: It was cinematographer Dean Cundey's one and only attempt at feature film directing. It also damaged his career as a cinematographer as well; he lost his role as one of Steven Spielberg's regular cinematographers due to being unavailable for The Lost World: Jurassic Park (his replacement, Janusz Kaminski of Schindler's List, would shoot all of Spielberg's future films), and his only high-profile regular collaborator afterwards was Nancy Meyers. While he's gotten regular work in the years since, he went from shooting the likes of Halloween and Who Framed Roger Rabbit to The Spy Next Door and the infamous Jack and Jill.
• Direct to Video: Initially written to be a theatrical release, it was changed in pre-production to be Disney's first live-action direct-to-video release following the success of animated features like Aladdin: The Return of Jafar. This resulted in the budget being slashed from $40 million to $7 million.
• Follow the Leader: Disney's decision to release the film Direct to Video was inspired by the success of its animated DTV features.
• The Other Darrin: Marcia Strassman is replaced in the role of Diane Szalinski by Eve Gordon, making Rick Moranis the only actor to appear in all three Honey films. (It would be his last live-action role until he returned for the sequel, Shrunk, 25 years later.) The role of Adam is also recast.
• Underage Casting: Eve Gordon is 12 years younger than Marcia Strassman, and just 11 years older than Amy O'Neill, who played her character's daughter in the first two films. Luckily for her, both Amy and Nick are absent, allowing her to be presented as "merely" the mother to a preteen son.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: Was released straight to video in 1997, but the end credits show that it was completed in 1996.
• You Sound Familiar: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Gordon Szalinski is played by Humberto Vélez, who previously dubbed his brother Wayne in the first film.
• What Could Have Been: Elijah Wood was originally offered the role of Ricky, but he turned it down, due to not caring for the character. Jonathan Taylor Thomas was also considered.

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