Script being developed for Roger Rabbit sequel

I think that maybe the animation will still be hand drawn, but the highlights and shading used to make the characters blend into the live-action environment will be rendered digitally. This computer-generated shading was used in Looney Tunes: Back in Action. They called it "Lumo."
 
Will the Character remain 2D or become CGI?

& also will the following be in the squeal?

Courage the Cowardly Dog
The Aardvark (Ant & The Aardvark)
Strong Bad
Dr. Neo Cortex
Sheldon J. Planton
Miles "Tails" Prowler
Heffer Wolfe (Rocko's Modern Life)
Amigo (Samba De Amigo)
Billy Hatcher
Stimpson J. Cat
Scout Master Lumpus

With animated shows that launched for the last 7 years they have to at least put 5 or 6 of theme in the movie. I did enjoy Roger Rabbit thure.
 
Hopefully It's still 2D done like EJLD4Ever said. And I do hope some Nicktoon and Cartoon Cartoon characters are featured, although I don't see why they'd feature any video game characters, even if they've been in cartoons.

EDIT: Also, though he's a fox, it's Miles Prower, not Prowler. It's a play on miles-per-hour.
 
This film will flop big time if it ever does see it to the screen.

The sequel was actually being developed in the late 90's but Eisner pulled the plug on it after a few animation tests because he felt the ship had sailed on the sequel. Eisner was probably right.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit was a product of its time (the animation revival of the late 80's and early 90's) A sequel would be DOA. While many people do hold the original in high regard, it was mostly because of how amazing and ground breaking the special effects were.

How many animation/live action films have made any sort of profit besides Space Jam? While I'd love to see more done with the character of Roger Rabbit, I can't see a sequel released more than 20 years later actually turning a profit and upstaging the original.
 
Hollywood BETTER not kill another one of my favorite films. Then again, the worst fate of all was Little Shop of Horrors getting the crappy 80s ending treatment.

CURSE YOU FRANK OZ!
 
Yes, that's true. That was the Tex Avery aesthetic. I prefer Chuck Jones. And I prefer Bugs in his fully-realized form, as the goodhearted anti-hero, as opposed to his earlier incarnation as heckler/jerk. I think he was infinitely funnier in his latter version.

Speaking of earlier versions, it might be fun if this new film has Roger entering Hollywood during its cartoon beginnings, where all the toons have that button-eyed retro look. It'd be cool to see a new presentation of retro-Mickey on the big screen. That'd sell me a ticket right there. :)
 
Just because you didn't care for him doesn't mean he didn't do anything right. Under his supervision we got Aladdin, The Lion King and all those great Disney movies.
 
Well, the movie takes place in the 40s, and Bugs Bunny's cooler persona didn't fully come out until the 50s (most notably with "Rabbit Fire" in 1951). The movie was likely taking that into consideration.
 
I don't know what the big deal is? I for one am looking foward to the sequel. The toons will be in 2-D (obviously) and the original writers are writing it. It' going to be great that Roger is finally making a comeback! :)
 
Eh, Disney waited too long; 20 years is too long to keep anyone waiting for a sequel. The time to have done a Roger Rabbit sequel would've been around 1990 or '91. It's like how Lorne Michels waited 15 years to make a Coneheads movie long after the fad died down, and we all saw how well that turned out.

The iron just isn't hot anymore.
 
It's been in development before. I won't believe it until I start seeing the Burger King toys.

They didn't use a single computer in the original, which makes all the interaction between the characters and real objects remarkable. They built mechanical riggings just so a penguin who passes by for all of two seconds could be carrying a real tray.


I didn't get that until now. ....Wouldn't such a name make more sense if HE was famous for speed?
 
Well thank you for pointing that error out. My Ideas for a Character suggestion whould have to make a promo for Pez Dispensers for the movie.:)

Roger Rabbit (Red Stem)
Baby Herman (Yellow Stem)
Miles Prower (Green Stem)
Scout Master Lumpus (Orange Stem)
Stimpy (Blue Stem)

Pez realy needs to a Roger Rabbit 2 Promo
 
I loved the look of the toons in Back in Action, it was fluid, it blended well, it was overall pleasant to look at.

I hope that's what I'd see in the Roger Rabbit sequel, but I also don't want to lose the toon/real world interaction. Like the weasels having guns or when Roger was in the bunker and how everything interacted with him and my favourite scene with the plates.

I love how creative people can get when given a challenge like "How can something fake interact with something real."

I'm also interested in if Time Warner/Turner would be willing to lend their characters again. If I remember the commentary right, Spielberg handled those contract negotiations himself.



I think you mean "CURSE YOU TEST AUDIENCE!"
 
According to my animation proffessor, a sequel was never made because it would've been WAY too expensive. Since technology and techniques have improved, maybe it won't be too expensive this time around.

I look forward to see a sequel, so long as it features unlikely crossovers again. That was the original film's selling point for me.
 
Here's how the story should go:

Roger is hired to appear in a TV series, but after the unpleasent experience of having his framerate lowered he flees to the backalleys of Toontown, briefly becoming trapped in an Oskar Fischinger abstract film. Eventually, he realises that the only way to escape the TV execs is to leave the country altogether, and so hops on board the Titanic (where he performs a rap number with a dog) and eventually arrives in the UK. Here, he meets Nick Park, who tries to turn him into a clay model. Meanwhile, the American execs are forced to scrap his series and replace it with CNReal.

Roger has second thoughts about becoming claymation and so flees from Nick Park. Now a bizarre half-cel, half-clay creation, he is accosted by mixed media animators who want to use him in their pitches to Channel 4's experimental animation schemes. He eventually escapes the UK by crossing the channel to France, where he winds up in a Gaulish village. The locals react with hostility and he flees across Europe, encountering the Winx Club, Pingu and Alfred J. Kwak amongst others.

He eventually leaves Europe and passes through Asia, getting attacked by suicide bombers from an Iranian propaganda film and later being forced to fight a Kung Fu Panda knockoff in a cheap Chinese direct-to-video feature. He finally winds up in Korea, where the local animators tell him that they can give his TV series a handsome framerate. He agrees, and lives happily until eventually some doofus decides to give him a CGI movie.

THE END
 
I wouldn't bet danger money on Scout Master Lumpus being the Roger Rabbit sequel. Camp Lazlo was not a tremendously popular program. Only people who have been watching Cartoon Network regularly in the past 5 years or so would even know who that is. Rocko and/or Heffer from Rocko's Modern Life would be more realistic a notion, even though RML's following was/is more cult than mainstream.

And why Stimpy and not Ren? That would be like having Garth but not Wayne or Beavis without Butthead.
 
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