Robert Zemeckis has some bad news for fans who want to see the sequel who framed roger rabbit.
The director appears happy sad confused This week’s podcast with Josh Horowitz discusses his latest film herestarring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. During the conversation, the host asked the filmmaker a potential question Roger Rabbit sequel.
“Disney has a great script, but here’s the thing: This is what you have to know, and you know this, current Disney will never make it Roger Rabbit today,” Zemeckis said. “They can’t make a movie with Jessica in it.”
While in theory it doesn’t seem like the company is giving up on the potentially popular sequel, the director noted that Jessica Rabbit’s new Toontown set at Disneyland is similar to her appearance in the 1988 film different.
“Look what they did to Jessica at the theme park,” he said. “You know, they believed she was wearing a trench coat.”
In 2021, Disneyland changed Jessica Rabbit’s look at the Anaheim park from a red dress to a trench coat, reportedly to better suit her new career as a private eye, emulating Bob Hoskins’ look in the park. Eddie Valiant, who stars in the project.
this back to the future Helmer explained that when he first started working on the film, Disney had just entered a new regime and they were “energetic” and excited about what was to come.
“Then I kept saying, and I sincerely said that I did believe this, I said, ‘I’m doing Roger Rabbit I believed Walt Disney would do it this way,” Zemeckis recalled in the podcast. “I say that because Walt Disney never made any movies for children. He always made them for adults. That’s what I decided to do Roger Rabbit”.
Despite wanting to make the film the way Walt Disney wanted it, Forrest Gump The director admitted that he was still worried when showing it to children and parents.
“At one point we did a test preview with just moms and babies,” he said. “I was scared because these kids were 5 or 6 years old. They were absolutely captivated by the movie. I realized the thing is, kids get it all. They get it. They get it. You don’t have to… I think Walt What Disney never does is he never talks down to kids in his movies. He treats kids like adults.
