Robert Zemeckis, the director of “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” says a sequel to the film is never going to happen.
‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ Sequel
Zemeckis said on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that Disney has a “good script” for a sequel but it “isn’t ever going see the light of day, as good as it is.”
Furthermore, he doesn’t think the original “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” would have been made today.
“The current Disney would never make Roger Rabbit today,” he said. “They can’t make a movie with Jessica in it. I mean, look what they did to Jessica at the theme park. They trussed her up in a trench coat, you know.”
Zemeckis is referring to the cultural sensitivity update of Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin at Disneyland, which turned Jessica Rabbit into a detective.
“Who Framed Roger Rabbit” was released in 1988. Based on “Who Censored Roger Rabbit?” by Gary K. Wolf, it was produced by Disney’s Touchstone Pictures in collaboration with Amblin Entertainment and combined live-action footage with animated characters.
Zemeckis said that when he made the original movie, Disney was “ready to rebuild itself.”
“We were there when that new regime came in,” he continued, “and they were full of energy, and they wanted to do it. I kept saying, and I sincerely say this, I do believe this, ‘I’m making Roger Rabbit the way I believe Walt Disney would have made it.’ The reason I say that is because Walt Disney never made any of his movies for children. He always made them for adults. And that’s what I decided to do with Roger Rabbit.”
In 2016, Zemeckis discussed the potential sequel with The Telegraph. He said the script by “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” writers Peter S. Seaman and Jeffrey Price was “magnificent” and “more a continuation than a sequel.” It would have followed Roger and Jessica “into the next few years of period film, moving on from film noir to the world of the 1950s.”
Before Bob Hoskins died in 2014, Zemeckis had planned to include Eddie Valiant as a digital ghost.
Source: Deadline
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