The fear is the CG crapfest from this guy....with Hoskins voicing the creepy cg version of himself from 20 years ago.

Why not give it a go? If mickey can get a new game why can't roger get another movie? The thing is that roger rabbit is supposed to be funny, Indiana Jones is an action flick. Bob Hoskins is an awesome actor that like Dennis Hopper has taken some rather questionable roles. Harrison Ford shouldn't have done it. Hell Lucas shouldn't have done it. Bob Hoskins can do the same stuff he did in the first flick, its not like he did any amazing wire fighting or physical stunts in the original

Not to highjack the thread, but I finally saw Kingdom of the Crystal Skull this past weekend, and while Weak in many ways I didn't think it it was the "raping" it had been made out to be.

So far as this remake goes: Holiwood feels compelled to continue making movies despite having been utterly out of ideas for like over a decade now. Why not? The studio could invest in this or in a story about Sandra Bullock finding true love in some wacky place she never expected it.

It does have the possibility of being downright awesome...hopefully it'll keep the spirit of the original.

This will work. I agree that the CG can be ass if not done right. I'm not sure about the story, but if it involves the old toons being forgotten and pushed aside for the new fangled CGI toons that would be interesting.

The original Roger Rabbit is an interesting film, but it's not some masterpiece. This could be a good thing if it's done right.

Bob Hoskins was quoted in the LA Times or somewhere, saying he wants to be apart of the movie, but doesnt think he'll star in it...like you said...too old

Better be live action and hand drawn animation. Not his mocap shit.

Nice idea (and Who Framed Roger Rabbit is brilliant), but Zemeckis hasn't done a decent film in over a decade and it's that whole 'can you go home again' worry about such an idea.

But hey if they can get Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny to share screentime again (even if there has to be a ten metre long list of conditions like last time), I could be persuaded!

@Charlie: I liked Monster House, Beowulf was over the top but exciting, Christmas Carol looks great (I, and many others, probably, saw a 3-D advert when I went to Up) and all are undeniably impressive feats of animation. And Cast Away is also great.

Slightly off topic, but my sister has tickets to the London premiere of A Christmas Carol.

That's kinda win, right? Right?

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Roger Rabbit was a breakthrough character that can find a brand new audience in the 21st century.

The question is, how to get all of the clearances for the same characters for a sequel? They barely got the characters they wanted for the first movie!!!

I'm totally down for a sequel. The thought of seeing some live-action mixed with CG animation instead of the old hand drawn stuff has me sort of giddy. And the story could potentially be awesome (maybe the old-style toons facing off against the new, hip CG ones? Who knows!). There's so many ways for this to go wrong, but there's also so many ways for it to be amazing.

Roger Rabbit, both as a movie and a character, hasn't aged well. I just watched part of it again about a month ago, and even for a period film, it looks old.

But like a few others have said, why not? I could actually see it taking on a simliar theme to Indy 4. Twenty years have passed, making it about 1955 or so, and Roger's in danger of being squeezed out by TV toons who are willing to work a lot cheaper than he is.

Yeah..I kind of like the idea of setting thsi in the late 50's/early 60's...thats when animation started to get cheap and shitty looking. Make the whole film about the end of the golden age of animation,having both Eddie and Roger being forced into retirement...might be kind of sad,but kind of cool at the same time.

I don't think they should make another sequel. Stop remaking shit and stop making sequels.

If they can't get all the toons together, then its not worth the effort.

That was part of the magic of the original: Disney, Warner, and some of the others out there all together on the same screen.

Of course, I fear that one in this day and age would feature Pokemon and all the garbage popping up on Cartoon Network.

Alternatively, they could do one with all the adult oriented stuff coming from Japan, though they'd never get it past a review board with anything lower than an X-rating.

DoctorSmashy: Cast Away is a FedEx advert, he didn't direct Monster House, and I found Beowulf and The Polar Express empty experiences despite the visuals. The whole motion capture stuff leaves me somewhat cold.

Yeah, I'm pretty excited about this personally. "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" is one of my all time favorites, and despite the potential that it might not live up to that, I'd be first in line to see a new one.

Nice to see a lot of people are thinking along the same lines as I am, too - there are definitely stories to be told here, especially if you set the new movie in a modern day setting. How do all the "old guard" characters like Mickey and Bugs feel about being replaced by computer animated characters? Do they resent them (leading to the plot of the movie)? Where do the old characters go when they're out of work? Do they fade away over time as they are forgotten? Whatever happened to Toon Town? Where do they go from here?

The possibilities are, IMO, endless. You could really tug on the emotions of people like me, who miss seeing all of our old favorite characters. Parallels could be drawn to when the first movie took place, as well - remember what Betty Boop said in the first movie? "Work's been hard to come by since cartoons went to color. But I still got it, Eddie...". This could be a great reflection on the industry as a whole, leading to either a resurrection of these classic characters, or at least a proper send off. I honestly think that, if they did it right, it would be pretty emotional for a lot of people, myself included.

I don't know, maybe I'm putting too much thought into this. Maybe they're just making "Toon Patrol", the prequel that's been rumored forever. The story I'd like to see told might not be the sunniest story they could tell; in fact, it would at times be dark and depressing. Can't wait to find out, though!

I hope they don't CG Hoskins, but on the same token, his age has to be a factor...
As long as the CG effects are better than Xavier and the others in Wolverine, it can't be too bad!
What a pile!

Just make sure Richard Williams is the Director of Animation again. That's all I ask.

I'm just going to say what we're all thinking.

Give us more Jessica Rabbit!

I'm fucking scared. I love the original and I think it'll be less classic animation/live action and more "live action" CG like the movies he's been doing lately.

This shouldn't happen unless i'm sure it'll be done like the original. But considering how much of a bitch it was to make back then, cutting edge and all, I doubt they want to. If they do revert back to that style, it'll end up looking like Space Jam and Looney Tunes Back in Action. Flat and dead. The techniques used to make the original so good and authentic, even today, basically taped traditional animation into celluloid strips and ILM painted shadows and added the lightning touches. ILM just uses green screen now.

Yeah, i'll end up pretending it doesn't exist if it does get greenlit, shot, and sent to theaters.

Y'know, if they set this during the 60s, there's a possibility we'd see Roger and Mickey alongside Jonny Quest and any number of Chuck Jones' creations.

And possibly Gigantor.

Just sayin'...

given Roger risks with fans the old out of sight out of mind.the posaiblity of seeing what roger is up to since the last one is intriquing not to mention seeing what cartoon characters Zemkis will be allowed to use to make cameos not to mention that Disney is even letting the thing happen at all

Oh man, if they had some anime cameos I would just lose it.

Really though, the more I think about this the less stoked I become. One of the things that made the original movie so awesome was...it didn't really know who its target audience was. It had these goofy cartoon characters set in a mature world filled with death and violence, and in this day and I age I really gotta fuckin wonder if they could pull off even half of what made the movie so good in the first place.

There already WAS a sequel to the first Roger Rabbit. Oh, you mean the MOVIE? Well, there was a second novel and it was as different from "Who Censored Roger Rabbit" as the movie was.

How about finding some fresh fields to plow, Hollywood? I don't mind you adapting books and leaving them unrecognizable, but get a bigger bookshelf. May I recommend "Bimbos of the Death Sun"?

What they absolutely NEED to do, is have the plot basically rip off The Two Jakes - only as a vicious spoof of it. That will make the whole belated-sequel concept work a treat.

Sounds interesting. After more than 20 years, maybe it'll be cool to see the what's gonna happen in crazy cartoon land and live action world with these beloved characters.

You know, maybe they'll make Bob Hoskins' character age, too, and have something for him to work with like in the last movie. Who knows? I just hope they stay true to it.

NKURyan is right. Whereas normally I'd be annoyed if they used a lot of CGI, for a Roger Rabbit sequel they'd have to.

The first film was a commentary on animation and for that to be carried on, the subject of CGI has to come up. It would be amazing if we saw characters like Buzz and Woody living in Toontown. Imagine seeing traditionally hand-drawn Roger and Co. driving around in super-slick CGI Lightning McQueen. Could be fun.

@ Ranchoth & Longbowhunter : just imagine, it's set in the 60s with all the shitty TV animation... and it features Marvel and DC characters ! Hey, it can be done now : Warner owns DC and Disney owns Marvel. You'd have the Hanna-Barbera FF and the Filmation Superman and Batman and the Grantray-Lawrence Marvel Super-Heroes straight out of Kirby's comics, and Ralph Bakshi's Spider-Man... And they'd manifest as CGI living cardboard creatures in the real world because the animation looked so flat. Kinda like in that movie : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg-brefbrKo

I'd pay to see that.

Oh there's so much potential in this... the Flintstones anyone? Jetsons? Scooby doo? Astroboy?

Well.. I hope it does okay..

I liked the first one! Plus, me and my brother (I'm gonna be an aunt soon!) both LOVE movies! He has it on DVD! then again, he has a LOT of movies....