“Roger Rabbit 2” won't get made because of Jessica Rabbit

Robert Zemeckis has some bad news for fans who would like to see a sequel Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

The director appeared on Happy Sad Confused podcast with Josh Horowitz this week to discuss his latest film Herewith Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. During the conversation, the host asked the director what the potential was Ruggero Coniglio followed.

“There's good writing at Disney, but here's the thing: Here's what you need to know, and you know, the current Disney would never do that.” Ruggero Coniglio today,” Zemeckis said. “They can't make a movie with Jessica in the role.”

While it would seem in theory that the company wouldn't give up on what would likely be a popular sequel, the director pointed out Jessica Rabbit's new Toontown ensemble at Disneyland, which is different from its appearance in the 1988 film.

“Look what they did to Jessica at the theme park,” he said. “They trust her in a trench coat, you know.”

In 2021, Disneyland updated Jessica Rabbit's look in the Anaheim park from her red dress to a trench coat, presumably more in line with her new career as a private investigator, taking on Bob Hoskins' Eddie Valliant in the project.

THE Back to the future Helmer explained that when he began working on the film, a new regime had just come in at Disney, and they were “full of energy” and excited for whatever was coming next.

“So, I kept saying, and I mean it sincerely, and I believe it, and I say, 'I'm doing it Ruggero Coniglio the way I believe Walt Disney would have made it,'” Zemeckis recalled on the podcast. “And the reason I say that is because Walt Disney never made any of his films for children. He always made them for adults. And that's what I decided to do Ruggero Coniglio.”

Although he wanted to make the film the way Walt Disney wanted, the Forrest Gump the director admitted that he was still worried about showing it to children and their parents.

“We once did a test preview with just moms and kids,” she said. “I was terrified because these children were about 5, 6 years old. They were absolutely fascinated by the film. And I realized that the fact is that children get everything. They understand. They understand it. You don't have to… I think the thing that Walt Disney never did was never talk down to children in his films. He treated children as if they were adults.”

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