Genre: Traditional cel/live action mixture
Studio: Amblin Entertainment
Company: Touchstone Pictures
Project Phase: Early Development (Almost on Drawing Boards)
Release Date: 2000 or 2001
Release Type: Theatrical
Voices: Charles Fleischer....Roger Rabbit
Plot: It appears the prequel faction is winning the battle at Disney.
The movie reportedly will focus on how Roger Rabbit met curvy, torch-singing
wife Jessica Rabbit (voiced by Kathleen Turner in the 1988 film, with
singing help from Spielberg's then-wife Amy Irving) and moved to Hollywood to
begin a career as a bumbling foil to foul-tempered Baby Herman in Maroon 'toons.
Notes: The movie hasn't been cast yet. It has been said that they are currently
talking to a few very big names to appear in the movie. Early on (years ago), Tom
Cruise was going to star, but he has gone on to other things. The first Roger Rabbit
movie took from 1980 until 1988. This one was started in 1992, so it's pretty much on
schedule, or maybe only a few Toon years late.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit Pre-Sequel movie will mix existing Disney characters with other
non-Disney Studios characters. Gary Wolf said that it's become a tradition. Droopy has
been in all of the Roger cartoons. It has also been said that it can safely said that
there will be other studio characters in the pre-sequel.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit Pre-Sequel will have the same vast (or half-vast)
cast of toons Who Framed Roger Rabbit did. Gary Wolf invented a whole bunch
of new characters including Joellyn, Jessica's twin sister. Although they're not
identical twins. They look the same, but Joellyn is only three and a half inches
high. In the pre-sequel Roger Rabbit and Joellyn have a love affair.
Once, the Roger Rabbit pre-sequel was going to be a direct-to-video cartoon (no
humans, set in Roger's native Toontown). Then, a contingent lobbied for a return
to the big-screen in the form of a prequel, according to Wolf.
Music: A report in Daily Variety has Alan Menken, Disney's in-house, Oscar-winning
composer (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, etc.), already completing a musical
score for the movie, described as an old-fashioned Busby Berkeley-style song-and-dance
flick. And maybe even joining the project as a producer.
Who P-p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit?
Genre: Traditional cel/live action mixture
Studio: Amblin Entertainment
Company: Touchstone Pictures
Project Phase: Very Early Development (Not going to be started till most of
Who Framed Roger Rabbit pre-sequel is done)
Release Date: None set yet
Release Type: Theatrical
Plot: The plot involves Roger's upbringing and his trip to L.A. to find the
mother who abandoned him as a bunny.There he meets Jessica, Baby Herman, and
breaks into show biz.Plus has a lot of goofy adventures.
Comments: Here's what's official: Yes, a sequel is planned, says Steven Spielberg's
Amblin Entertainment, which, with Disney, produced the first movie. But that's
not news. A sequel has, more or less, been "planned" since Roger Rabbit took in
$400 million at theaters worldwide nearly a decade ago. Whether the elusive
sequel will get made before the impending millennium--well, nobody's saying.
Officially. [Source Lampwick's Disney News 6/26/97]
Eddie will be in a future sequel. Disney bought the rights to my Roger Rabbit
sequel novel Who P-p-p-plugged Roger Rabbit from Gary Wolf that takes the
story forward from the end of the last movie.
Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit movie will mix existing Disney characters
with other non-Disney Studios characters. Gary Wolf said that it's become a
tradition. Droopy has been in all of the Roger cartoons. It has also been said
that it can safely said that there will be other studio characters in the
pre-sequel.
Notes: Once, the Roger Rabbit sequel was going to be a direct-to-video cartoon
(no humans, set in Roger's native Toontown). Then, a contingent lobbied for a return
to the big-screen in the form of a prequel, according to Gary Wolf.
Music: A report in Daily Variety has Alan Menken, Disney's in-house, Oscar-winning
composer (The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, etc.), already completing
a musical score for the movie, described as an old-fashioned Busby Berkeley-style
song-and-dance flick. And maybe even joining the project as a producer.
Many thanks to The Very Extraordinary Disney Animation Archive for this information!
