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Who Resurrected Roger Rabbit?


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?Answer: Robert Zemeckis, director of the original, and likely the director of the in-progress sequel. From /Film:

Robert Zemeckis has been loosening us up for a Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel
for some months now, letting slip the odd reference here and there that
he’s been keen to give the follow on a good crack. In April he said that he had a good idea for the second installment; on July 22nd he said he’d been discussing the film with Bob Hoskins; on July 23rd he told the Comic-Con audience that he could neither deny nor confirm any plans for a sequel.

Now he’s just come out and revealed that not only is he gunning for
another run at the funny Bunny, but also that writing on the new
screenplay already currently underway. Purist fans of the original will
probably jump for joy at his revelation on who is wielding the pen,
because it’s none other than the scribes of part one, Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price.

A lot of you have been sending me tips about the Roger Rabbit sequel from day one, and I’ve never reported it because I didn’t know how I felt about it. Honestly, I still don’t. I enjoyed the original, and probably would’ve liked a sequel back then, but… it’s been more than 20 years. Roger Rabbit is not an Indiana Jones-level character that has the cultural cache to withstand such a gap (and Indy didn’t do that great a job of it either). And Bob Hoskins is 67 — would he still be the human star? Should he be? I don’t have any answers to these questions, and I’m hesitant to believe Zemeckis or the screenwriters have the answers either — or at least the right ones.