By Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis has revealed that a script for a sequel to the iconic comedy “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” has been completed – but it won’t get made.
The 1988 film was produced by Disney’s Touchstone Pictures label and Amblin Entertainment. Set in an alternate history Hollywood in 1947 where humans and cartoon characters co-exist, it follows a human P.I. (Bob Hoskins) who must help exonerate Roger Rabbit, a toon rabbit framed for murder.
Popping up on the Happy Sad Confused podcast to promote his new film “Here,” the famed “Romancing the Stone” and “Back to the Future” director says Disney is too scared to touch a sequel because of one key character – Jessica Rabbit.
It seems the character, Roger Rabbit’s wife and a busty human night singer, couldn’t be done by the studio in the modern era:
“There’s a good script sitting at Disney, but here’s what you have to know, and you know this: the current Disney would never make Roger Rabbit today…They can’t make a movie with Jessica in it.
So the [Peter] Seaman and [Jeffrey] Price sequel script isn’t ever going to see the light of day, as good as it is. Because look what they did to Jessica at the theme park, they trussed her in a trench coat.”
The character made headlines a few years ago at Disney theme parks when she got a makeover to be far less scantily clad. Screen icon Kathleen Turner voiced the character for the regular scenes while actress Amy Irving provided her singing voice.
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