In a recent interview with MTV News, Robert Zemeckis revealed that a sequel to the beloved Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is currently being scripted and developed. Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price, who wrote the original, are returning for the second film. From the sound of this, it looks like the sequel will start from square one. This is almost a shame, since a number of really great-sounding Roger Rabbit scripts have turned up over the years, including a WWII-based film called Roger Rabbit 2: Toon Platoon, and a look at Roger’s Hollywood history called Who Discovered Roger Rabbit?.
Zemeckis’ most recent effort, a retelling of Dickens’ A Christmas Story, marks his third film in a row using the performance-capture CGI technology, after Beowulf and Polar Express. Does this mean he’s planning on using a similar style for Roger? I certainly hope not; human actors can still give a better performance than the stunted facial expressions of their CGI body-doubles, and anyway, the live-action/cartoon merger of the original is a huge part of its charm.
Assuming this doesn’t get totally screwed up along the way, I’m really looking forward to it. Please deliver, Zemeckis.
[...] I reported that Robert Zemeckis had announced to MTV News that he was currently working on a Roger Rabbit sequel. Today, MTV posted more of the same interview, in which Zemeckis confirms exactly what I was worried [...]