The more than 20-year wait for the long-awaited continuation to “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” is over as Robert Zemeckis reveals his huge plans for the cartoon’s sequel. In a video interview with MTV News, he reveals how the great advancements in animation and motion capture had him thinking. He says, “I’ll tell you what is buzzing around in my head now that we have the ability – the digital tools, performance capture – I’m starting to think about Roger Rabbit.”The original film back in 1988 earned the title of second-highest grossing film, was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and took home four wins respectively.
An effort to produce a sequel happened over ten years ago when Disney attempted to rewrite the original story “Roger Rabbit: The Toon Platoon” penned by Nat Mauldin. The film entitled “Who Discovered Roger Rabbit” follows Roger’s rise to stardom on Broadway and Hollywood under the direction of Eric Goldberg. Academy Award winner Alan Menken was even tasked to come up with five songs for the production.
In their first test sequence, it featured a combination of traditional animation, computer animation, and live action which Disney wasn’t too happy about. Their second test converted all the cartoon characters to CG, however the budget quickly rose to over $100 million forcing Michael Eisner to call it quits.
Now that new technology had emerged, it allowed fantastic animated movies to be produced. Robert Zemeckis once again strives to bring the dream into reality. In his interview, he also exposes that writers for the original screenplay, Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman are on the process of creating a script for the sequel. He remains vague though on the other details of the project. When the film does push through, it would relive the loved 80’s cartoon rabbit’s adventures.
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