Roger Rabbit Sequel

[Carmine Falcone]

If they get Hoskins back, this might turn out great.

 

[BeserkerHilf]

Also it would cost a freaking fortune. Roger Rabbit was made in 1988-1987 ish and it cost I think about $70 million. Think about that, $70 million in the 80's. That would probably be triple today for a sequel.

A lot of that was put into making the animation work. Up until roger rabbit, live action/animation films were filmed with stationary shots. Roger Rabbit was the first time they ever attempted animating over sweeping camera shots. By now, the costs of doing something like that is a fraction of the cost back then

 

[Doctor Jones]

Never seen the first film but I always wanted to.

 

[terry78]

never seen the first film but i always wanted to.

whaaaa?!!!!!!!

 

[Webhead2006]

well hopefully this will turn out great, hopefully bob will give us some more details soon on the generalize plot so we can get an idea were it might go.

 

[RonStoppablefan]

LOL I could so see Stewie Griffin guest staring in this
Him and Sponge Bob working together like Mickey and Bugs did. The two worlds biggest stars. Than who else? Scooby-Doo and Shaggy? There popular and so is the Scooby show itself, still making shows in fact and movies. These are all the stars I could see guest staring, there the big ones of these days.

 

[DDS]

Never seen the first film but I always wanted to.

 

[Carmine Falcone]

Never seen the first film but I always wanted to.

(Sorry, I'm just participating in the reaction to your post, forcing you to watch the damn movie as soon as humanly possible t

By the way, I wonder/hope that they will actually have the sequel take place 21 years after the events of the first movie, which should make the year the sequel takes place in 1968. Wow! Maybe it should be about Eddie & Roger preventing the RFK and MLK assassinations!



Joking about that last part ofcourse.


(It could be awesome though...)

 

[Webhead2006]

yea if they are going with bob like i said in a earlier post, and they take how much time in real time took place since the other it would be in the 60s. I doubt they would bring roger to the 2000s.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I'll write it down on my movies to watch list.

 

[8wid]

Just like the prequel they were supposed to make. That sure happened...

Source:

Prequel

With the critical and financial success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Walt Disney Pictures and Steven Spielberg felt it was obvious to plan a second installment. Nat Mauldin wrote a prequel titled Roger Rabbit: The Toon Platoon, set in 1941. Similar to the previous film, Toon Platoon featured many cameo appearances with characters from the golden Age of American animation. It began with Roger Rabbit's early years, living on a farm in the Midwestern United States.[23] With human Richie Davenport, Roger travels west to seek his mother, in the process meeting Jessica Krupnick (his future wife), a struggling Hollywood actress. Jessica is kidnapped and forced to make pro-Nazi Germany broadcasts, thus Roger and Ritchie must save her by going into Nazi-occupied Europe. After their triumph, Roger and Ritchie are given a Hollywood Boulevard parade, and Roger is finally reunited with his mother, and father: Bugs Bunny.[23] The film would have gone direct-to-video.[35]
Mauldin later retitled the script Who Discovered Roger Rabbit. Spielberg left the project when deciding he could not satirize Nazis after directing Schindler's List.[36][37] Michael Eisner commissioned a rewrite in 1997 with Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver. Although they kept Roger's search for his mother, Stoner and Oliver changed the story to Roger’s inadvertent rise to stardom on Broadway and Hollywood. Disney was impressed and Alan Menken was hired to write five songs for the film and offered his services as executive producer.[37] One of the songs, "This Only Happens in the Movies", was recorded in 2008 on the debut album of Broadway actress Kerry Butler.[38] Eric Goldberg was set to be the new animation director, and began to redesign Roger's new character appearance.[37]
Spielberg had no interest with the project because he was establishing DreamWorks, although Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy decided to stay on as producers. Test footage for Who Discovered Roger Rabbit was shot sometime in 1998 at the Disney animation unit in Lake Buena Vista, Florida; the results were an unwieldy mix of CGI, traditional animation and live-action that did not please Disney. A second test had the Toons completely converted to CGI; but this was dropped as the film's projected budget escalated well past $100 million. Eisner felt it was best to cancel the film.[37] In March 2003, producer Don Hahn said "don't expect a Roger Rabbit sequel anytime soon. Animation today is completely conquered by computers, and traditional animation just isn't the forefront anymore."[39] In December 2007, Marshall admitted he was still "open" to the idea,[40] and in April 2009, Zemeckis revealed he was still interested.[41]

 

[Carmine Falcone]

So, what do you think, should Judge Doom return? Or a new villain?

 

[Webhead2006]

it will probably be a new villain.

 

[8wid]

So, what do you think, should Judge Doom return? Or a new villain?

New villain!

 

[terry78]

Mistress Doom.

 

[nogap87]

I wouldn't mind a RR movie set in the 60's. They can explore how much television had an effect on theatrical cartoons.

 

[Spider-Vader]

That would be awesome. Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, The Angry Beavers, South Park, The Simpsons.....

Seriously, cartoon cameo's could actually be more relivent today.

I really doubt Beavis & Butthead, South Park & maybe King of the Hill would be in this if it's set now.

If it's a joint project between Disney and Warner Bros. it can certainly work since they pretty much own all the iconic cartoon characters nowadays with the classic Disney characters, Looney Tunes, Hanna-Barbera, Pixar along with multiple cartoon shows that they've both produced over their long history.

Really the only icons that aren't owned by those two are Woody Woodpecker and Fievel (Universal), Betty Boop (Paramount), Mighty Mouse (20th Century Fox), and Nickelodeon's Nicktoons characters (Spongebob, Ren & Stimpy, Rugrats, Hey Arnold, Invader ZIM). And you know what, asides from a few like Spongebob and Woody Woodpecker, they're really not needed.

Ah, come on Zim would be awesome in this.

Never seen the first film but I always wanted to.

You need to now, it's one of the best animated films of all time.

So, what do you think, should Judge Doom return? Or a new villain?

New villain easily.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Ah, come on Zim would be awesome in this.

I love Invader ZIM, but he isn't iconic like SpongeBob is. And if they have it set in the 1940's modern day characters would be completely out of place.

However, in my personal opinion, I think it should be set in the modern day to incorporate Scooby-Doo, the Flintstones, Tom & Jerry, the Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, the Pixar characters, Bonkers, the Gummi Bears, Gargoyles, and other modern day cartoons by Warner Bros. and Walt Disney. Add in a few of Viacom's characters (Betty Boop, Spongebob, etc.) and Woody Woodpecker and you're golden.

 

[Spider-Vader]

Yeah, modern day characters shouldn't appear if the movie is set before they were created.

Though, I do think the Simpsons should appear, even though they're more adult than the others they're really iconic.

 

[dark_b]

Never seen the first film but I always wanted to.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Man, will I start receiving death threats?

 

[dark_b]

Man, will I start receiving death threats?

dude its who framed roger rabitt. from zemeckis.
you would need to be in a coma for 10 years to not see this movie. it was on TV almost always .

 

[Ace of Knaves]

Tis one of my favourite movies evah!!!

They better do the sequel justice, if it gets made.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Okay, I'll see what I can do today to watch it.

 

[Vapor]

If Zemeckis and Hoskins were back and they kept the olden day/detective feel of the first one instead of trying to contemporise and not as important but probably ideal, setting it 20 odd years after the first film like it has been in real life..

I know they had a toon villain in the first so it might be good to have a human villain but maybe they could do it where Eddie has retired and have an old black n white cartoon, who maybe in the past lost out on what he saw as his big break 'cos Roger, an emerging colour star got it and he became bitter and jealous of Roger and colour cartoons in general, so starts offing colour toons.. And Roger enlists Eddie to protect and help him.

Don't know if it's been mention but does anyone think, if it goes ahead with Zemeckis, that he'll do it mo-cop like his last 3 films or live action/animation like before?