After 37 years, a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit is lastly within the works—although not with Disney. In a current interview with ImNotBad.com, a website devoted solely to Jessica Rabbit information, writer Gary Ok. Wolf revealed that he quietly regained the rights to Roger Rabbit final yr. “I now have again the rights to all my characters, all my books. I can, mainly, create my very own Roger Rabbit tasks,” he shared.
Wolf was capable of reclaim possession by the 35-12 months Copyright Reversion Clause, which permits unique creators to regain rights to their works after 35 years. He famous that the method was fairly simple, as Disney didn’t oppose the rights reversion.
“I anticipated it to be a contentious course of. Who is aware of what would possibly occur? But it surely wasn’t. It was very civil, very courteous, very simple,” Wolf defined. “Disney was at all times wonderful to me. They handled me very properly and accommodated my requests.” Now that Wolf owns his characters once more, he plans to reintroduce audiences to Roger Rabbit and Toontown by a number of new tasks.
He talked about that there’s curiosity in revisiting the primary movie extra carefully aligned with the unique e book, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which options phrase balloons and extra comic-style characters. “That’s on the desk,” he mentioned, together with an adaptation of his 2022 e book, Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Enterprise.
Essentially the most distinguished venture Wolf talked about is a live-action Jessica Rabbit movie based mostly on the e book Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Enterprise. This has been the primary venture they’ve actively developed and is at the moment the furthest alongside.
Presently, no studios or manufacturing corporations are concerned in Wolf’s Roger Rabbit universe. Nevertheless, he expressed a robust want to collaborate with Disney once more. “I’d love for Disney to take part. We may companion up. There’s a core group from the primary film—Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy—and I’d like to work with them once more. I’d additionally love Charles Fleischer to reprise his function because the voice of Roger,” he mentioned.
Till Wolf’s new Roger Rabbit tasks come to fruition, followers can proceed to get pleasure from Who Framed Roger Rabbit on Disney+.
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