For the past few months, director Robert Zemeckis has been teasing us about whether he was planning a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit. He’s said he had a good idea for a second instalment, refused to confirm or deny whether plans were in the works, but also said he’d talked to Bob Hoskins about it on the set of A Christmas Carol.
While it was difficult to work out whether there really were any defnitely plans, or if it was purely Zemeckis musing out loud, he’s now comes out and said that a sequel is indeed in the works, and that he’s commissioned a script for it from the writers of the original movie, Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman.
Talking to MTV, he said “There’s a script that’s being developed. We’ve got the original writers that are working on it now – Seaman and Price.”
Despite the emergence of CG techcnology since the 1998, Zemeckis has previously said that he’d keep the cartoon look in any sequel, but that he’s been thinking about ways he can use digital performance capture technology to animate the movement of the film’s characters. MTV has promised more info on what Zemeckis has got planned, but at the moment it’s enough to know that after years of false starts and rumours, at least they seem to be serious about Roger Rabbit this time.
Don’t expect the film for a few years yet though, as next up for Zemeckis is a performance capture version of Yellow Submarine, due in 2012.