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'Roger Rabbit' Sequel Finally Moving Forward
Filed under: Animation », Comedy », Disney », Fandom », Scripts », Family Films »
To misquote Jessica Rabbit: "Sequels to beloved animated / live-action classics aren't all bad. They're just motion-captured that way." As our own Elisabeth Way back when, Seaman and Price adapted Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, a novel by Gary K. Wolff. The hard-boiled mystery drew upon the history of the Los Angeles transit system and provided a strong framework for a dazzling mixture of traditional cell animation and live-action period footage. Wolff wrote a sequel, Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?, and other follow-up ideas have been discussed over the years, but Zemeckis says he wasn't involved in any of them.
Of course, any sequel script would need to be very, very good on its own merits to have any hope of living up to the original. In view of Zemeckis' fascination, nay, obsession with performance capture digital tools, I share Elisbeth's fear that a new Roger Rabbit will be "a dead-eyed motion capture and not a lovable toon." The original was a mystery, a comedy, and a thriller, but it was the idea of brightly-colored cartoons living side by side with humans in a mundane real world that gave the film its distinctive flavor. Whose performances will be computer-animated in the sequel -- humans, 'toons, or both?
If Jessica Rabbit was a Real, Live Girl ...
Filed under: Fandom », Tech Stuff », Home Entertainment »
I saw this floating around several different websites over the weekend (I believe JoBlo first pointed me there), and, at first, I totally thought they had discovered some real girl who looked exactly like Jessica Rabbit. Yup, I just about freaked. Then I began reading the post and realized this dude (or dudette) created the image above using photoshop (click to enlarge). Oh well. She looks pretty damn real, though, and this person over at Pixeloo has created similar pieces for both Homer Simpson and Mario from Super Mario Brothers. The Homer one just freaks me the hell out, but the Mario one is pretty spot on.
Oh Jessica Rabbit ... how come we only had you in our lives for one feature-length film and three shorts? Which animated (or video game) character should Pixeloo tackle next? Personally, I'd love to see one of the South Park kids, like Cartman. You? (Additionally, for those curious, you can head after the jump to watch a sped-up video of the first hour of this Jessica Rabbit creation. Very cool stuff -- check out which popular actress is used to help make Jessica Rabbit a reality.)
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