Who Framed Roger Rabbit director, Robert Zemeckis, is pretty confident Disney would never take a chance on a Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel after the risque stuff found in the original. Despite its PG rating, the film featured a lot of adult-oriented jokes and the iconic highly sexualized character, Jessica Rabbit.
During an episode of the Happy Sad Confused Podcast (via Toonado), Zemeckis revealed there is a script stuck at Disney that will never see the light of day “as good as it is.” Basically, Disney doesn’t want to be involved with a property featuring Jessica Rabbit.
Should it ever happen, the script was penned by original writers Peter S. Seamen and Jeffrey Price.
Later in the interview, he discussed how the film was even greenlit in the first. In short, it was largely because he wanted to make a film that seethed the energy that Walt Disney himself would’ve made, a movie not quite targeting kids, but rather adults.
“We were able to make it right at the time when Disney was ready to rebuild itself. We were there when that new regime came in, and they were full of energy, and they wanted to do it. I kept saying, and I sincerely say this, I do believe this, ‘I’m making Roger Rabbit the way I believe Walt Disney would have made it.’ The reason I say that is because Walt Disney never made any of his movies for children. He always made them for adults. And that’s what I decided to do with Roger Rabbit.”
