The director will soon release “Here”, a drama for which he has reunited with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright after their experience together in “Forrest Gump.”
Robert Zemeckis He is the director of great milestones in cinema, including the trilogy of back to the future and Forrest Gump. His next movie, Herewill reunite him with Tom Hanks and Robin Wright.
Involved in the promotion of the film, and invited to the Happy Sad Confused podcast, he preferred to remember another of his films: Who Framed Roger Rabbit?there he talked about why despite its success there has been no sequel in the almost 40 years since then.
Why there was no sequel to ‘Roger Rabbit’ according to Robert Zemeckis
According to Zemeckis, it’s Disney’s fault. The director has already tried returning to Roger Rabbit in the past: he imagined a story that would go from the noir of the first film to the splendor of Hollywood in the 50s, even considering that Bob Hoskins appeared with a digital replica after his death in 2014. In Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Hoskins was Eddie Valiant, a private detective originally hired to find out if Roger Rabbit’s wife was being unfaithful. The intrigue got much more complicated from there.
Disney’s refusal to Roger Rabbit 2 would come precisely for the aforementioned wife, Jessica Rabbit. This character had a tremendously sexualized design, which Zemeckis believes would be quite uncomfortable today. This is the reason why, despite having a written script, “will never see the light of day, no matter how good it is”. “There is a good script for the sequel at Disney, but this is what happens: today’s Disney would never make Roger Rabbit today. They can’t make a movie with Jessica”explains the director.
“We were there when that new regime came in, and they were full of energy, and they wanted to do it,” Zemeckis remembers of those years. “I kept saying, and I say it sincerely, I believe it, ‘I’m doing Roger Rabbit like I think Walt Disney would have done it’. I said this because Walt Disney never made movies for children. He always made them for adults. And that’s what I decided to do with Roger Rabbit.”
Source: Ambito
