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31Oct2009

Zemeckis Developing 'Roger Rabbit Sequel'

DateSaturday, October 31, 2009 at 7:10PM
It was somewhat surprising that Robert Zemeckis mentioned earlier this year that he might be working on a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit He's been pushing technology forward for several years with his motion-capture movies like The Polar Express, Beowulf, and next week's A Christmas Carol, so returning to a story he told back in 1988 seemed like a strange decision...unless he was going to do motion-capture for that, too.

Zemeckis is talking again, telling MTV that this thing is definitely happening. "There's a script that's being developed," he revealed, adding, "We've got the original writers that are working on it now — Seaman and Price."

Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price adapted Gary Wolf's novel, and have worked on a few big projects since, like How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Shrek the Third. I had no problems with the original screenplay, so this is probably a good place to start, even if the script winds up going out to other writers down the road.

While Zemeckis wouldn't say whether or not he'll apply his new techno-fetish to the Rabbit sequel - or even if he'd direct, although I think he would - but that's probably the only reason to do the sequel, something Zemeckis avoided throughout his career, with the exception of Back to the Future. Now, you might have heard rumors of a Roger Rabbit 2 before, but those had nothing to do with Zemeckis.

"I think there was a time right after the movie came out that the Disney regime at the time — it was a point in the life of the studio where if you made a successful movie they could no longer afford to hire you back," Zemeckis admitted. "I guess there were some projects that I don't know anything about."

Don't get your hopes up that we'll see part two anytime soon. Zemeckis has that motion-capture Yellow Submarine coming up, plus about a dozen projects he'll probably just produce. But unless this supersedes Yellow Submarine, this won't be ready for three or four years.

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