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==Production== The film began as an original script by Chip Proser, who called it "basically a rip off of ''Fantastic Voyage''. My idea was that the big guy was up and moving around and could react to what was going on inside." The script was optioned by [[Peter Guber]] at Warner Bros. in 1984. Guber offered the script to Joe Dante, who turned it down.<ref>{{cite web|website=Den of Geek|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/innerspace/261421/the-underrated-brilliance-of-joe-dantes-innerspace|date=12 January 2017|first=Ryan|last=Lambie|title=The Underrated Brilliance of Joe Dante's Innerspace}}</ref> Guber then had the script rewritten by [[Jeffrey Boam]] as a comedy. Boam says, "The idea was kind of ridiculous, which was a person miniaturized and put into someone else's body. That's all I kept from the original script. They originally thought it might be [[Michael J. Fox]] inside [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]'s body. I actually kept turning it down, and they were persistent and kept coming back to me."<ref name="boam">{{cite web|url=https://www.assignmentx.com/2013/exclusive-interview-the-last-crusade-of-screenwriter-jeffrey-boam/|website=Assignment X|title=Exclusive Interview: The Last Crusade of Screenwriter Jeffrey Boam|first=A. C.|last=Ferrante|date=1 May 2013|access-date=2 January 2018|archive-date=19 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180119175545/http://www.assignmentx.com/2013/exclusive-interview-the-last-crusade-of-screenwriter-jeffrey-boam/|url-status=live}}</ref> According to Dante, Boam "approached it ... from the concept of what would happen if we shrank [[Dean Martin]] down and injected him inside [[Jerry Lewis]]."<ref name="cinema">{{cite magazine|magazine=Cinema Retro|url=http://www.cinemaretro.com/index.php?/archives/8794-EXCLUSIVE-JOE-DANTE-DISCUSSES-INNERSPACE,-TO-MARK-THE-FILMS-BLU-RAY-RELEASE-THROUGH-WARNER-HOME-ENTERTAINMENT.html|title=Joe Dante Discusses Innerspace}}</ref> Dante says that Steven Spielberg had become involved on the project as an executive producer and he may have been responsible for the comedy.<ref name="cinema"/> "It was such a goofy idea that there were no limits to it," said Boam. "I felt I could do anything, and so the script I wrote was very loony and far out there but everybody loved it. Dick Donner, Joe Dante, John Carpenter and even Steven Spielberg wanted to do it. So when Steven wanted to do it, Warners thought I was a God and any amount of money it would take to do the movie they would spend. Steve ultimately decided he only wanted to produce so Joe came along and really latched on to the idea."<ref name="boam"/> Quaid's role was originally envisioned to be played by an older actor, but then they decided to make the character younger.<ref name="cinema"/> Dante recalled during filming scenes where Quaid and Short's characters interacted, "Dennis would be on the set in a booth, so the interaction was really happening. Dennis would hew to the script a little more than Marty. After you got a scene in the can, he'd beg for more takes, in the voice of [[Katharine Hepburn]], which was hard to resist."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/movies/joe-dante-gremlins-director-reflects-on-his-biggest-hits.html |title=Joe Dante: 'Gremlins' Director Reflects on His Biggest Hits |first=Glenn |last=Kennyaug |date=August 3, 2016 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url-access=subscription}}</ref> Dante says Spielberg would "protect you from the studio and sometimes from the other producers. It was a very filmmaker-friendly atmosphere over there [at Amblin]. You got all the best equipment and all the best people and all the toys you wanted to play with. Plus, you had somebody on your side who was also a filmmaker and they knew exactly what you were talking about when you had a problem or you had a question."<ref name="cinema"/> "It's a dumb, stupid comedy, which is exactly what people need in the summertime," said Quaid. "It's very idiotic and I love it. We encounter every dumb, stupid cliché in the book. Leave your brain at home and you'll have a good time."<ref>{{cite news|last=Kempley|first=R.|date=July 1, 1987|title=Dennis Quaid, poised for takeoff; after years of big misses, the actor looks for a hit|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/07/01/dennis-quaid-poised-for-takeoff/33211e65-d4d1-4a09-999f-ed63aa85fa3c/|access-date=February 5, 2019|archive-date=February 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207015321/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/07/01/dennis-quaid-poised-for-takeoff/33211e65-d4d1-4a09-999f-ed63aa85fa3c/|url-status=live}}</ref> Meg Ryan met Quaid on set and they later married.<ref name="cinema"/>
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