Who Framed Roger Rabbit Director Says Disney Will Never Greenlight a Sequel — Because of Jessica Rabbit

Will there ever be a sequel Who placed Roger Rabbit? Director Robert Zemeckis doesn’t think so.

Zemeckis, 72, talked about the possibility of a sequel to the beloved Disney film on the Oct. 30 episode. Happy Sad Confused podcast. The original film, released in 1988, was a huge success at the box office, grossing over $350 million. The film was a comedy noir that imagined a Hollywood where cartoons and people lived together, and the plot included murder, adultery, blackmail and other adult themes.

But none of that is why it is Here the director believes Roger Rabbit 2 it will never happen.

“A good script sits at Disney,” said Zemeckis, noting that original screenwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman wrote a great sequel. “Current Disney would never do it Roger Rabbit today. I can’t make a movie with Jessica [Rabbit] in it,” he said.

Stubby Kate (left) and Jessica Rabbit in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

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Jessica Rabbit was the extremely sexy animated wife of Roger Rabbit. She was voiced by Kathleen Turner and sung by Amy Irving, although both were uncredited at the time. Jessica is a gloomy cartoon singer who remains one of the most famous cartoon sex symbols to this day – and a very popular Halloween costume.

However, Zemeckis claimed that Disney would never go there again. “Look what they did to Jessica at the theme park,” he added. “They put her in a raincoat.” Forrest Gump The director was referring to a change Disney made in 2021 to Disneyland’s version of the Roger Rabbit Car Toon Spin ride. The ride has been given a new storyline in which Jessica plays a private investigator – who wears a raincoat over her iconic outfit.

Robert Zemeckis in October 2024.

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Who placed Roger Rabbit also starring Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Stubby Kaye and Charles Fleischer as the voice of Roger. It was produced by both Disney and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment.

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Zemeckis, who also directed films like Death becomes her, Back to the future and The Polar Expresshe reflected on the podcast trying to have a Walt Disney attitude while working Who placed Roger Rabbit. “Walt Disney never made any of his films for children. He always made them for adults,” he explained.

However, he was “terrified” when they first released the film for children, but his fears disappeared when the children were “hooked” on the film. “I think the thing that Walt Disney never did was he never talked to children in his movies. He treated children like adults,” he said.

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