It might be some 36 years later but there’s talk of a sequel to the classic live-action/animated Who Framed Roger Rabbit at last!
Or rather there’s talk about why it wouldn’t be able to be made today.
In a new interview, below, to promote his new movie, Here, director Robert Zemeckis has revealed that Disney have a solid script for a Roger Rabbit sequel but he really doesn’t believe it will ever happen.
The reveal to the age-old question: who is Roger Rabbit’s father?
“There is a good script sitting at Disney but here’s the thing. Here’s what you have to know. The current Disney would never make Roger Rabbit today,” says Zemeckis.
“They can’t make a movie with Jessica in it. So there is a [Peter] Seaman and [Jeffrey] Price sequel script. Is it ever going to see the light of day, as good as it is?
“I mean look at what they did with Jessica at the theme park, they trussed her up in a trench coat.”
By the theme park, he means Roger Rabbit’s Car Toon Spin ride at the Disneyland resort in which Jessica Rabbit has her ample, em, assets covered by a trench coat, left.
Voiced by Kathleen Turner, Jessia Rabbit is a, well, what my granny might have called a sex-pot; she wears a revealing red dress, has a very sexy voice and the joke is that this overly sexual cartoon character is married to none other than Roger Rabbit himself.
However, Zemeckis believes that in today’s ‘everything is offensive and teens believe there’s too much sex on TV’ world, Jessica would never be allowed to be animated, trench coat or not.
Look, back in the day, Roger Rabbit was groundbreaking and it still holds up very well but with stars Bon Hoskins dead and the movie feeling very much like a creature of its time, perhaps having it as a one-and-done classic is the best way to go.
Thoughts? Let me hear them, guys…
Watch the interview:
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
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