Robert Zemeckis says Disney would never make a ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ sequel

Director Robert Zemeckis has had a agelong profession successful Hollywood, and successful his clip successful nan industry, he’s seen things displacement and change. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, his hybrid live-action and animated drama from nan precocious 1980s, is wide regarded coming arsenic a classic, but during a caller question and reply connected the Happy Sad Confused podcast, Zemeckis suggested that he didn’t deliberation nan movie could get made today.

He besides acknowledged that there’s a sequel book that exists, but doesn’t deliberation that sequel will ever get made. “There’s a bully book [for a sequel] astatine Disney, but here’s nan thing: The existent Disney would ne'er make Roger Rabbit today,” he explained. “They can’t make a movie pinch Jessica successful it.”

The head added: “I mean, look what they did to Jessica astatine nan taxable park. They trussed her up successful a trench coat, you know.”

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? stars Bob Hoskins arsenic a backstage detective who lives successful a world wherever group coexist pinch animation characters. Hoskins’s PI is hired to analyse whether prima Robert Rabbit’s woman Jessica is having an matter connected him, but erstwhile nan proprietor of Toontown winds up dead, Roger becomes nan superior suspect.

The film’s bequest has only grown successful nan decades since its release, and it is wide considered 1 of nan crowning achievements of Zemeckis’s career.

“We were location erstwhile that caller authorities came in, and they were afloat of energy, and they wanted to do it. I kept saying, and I sincerely opportunity this, I do judge this, ‘I’m making Roger Rabbit nan measurement I judge Walt Disney would person made it,’” he explained. “The logic I opportunity that is because Walt Disney ne'er made immoderate of his movies for children. He ever made them for adults. And that’s what I decided to do pinch Roger Rabbit.”