Robert Zemeckis States There’s a “Great” ‘Roger Bunny 2’ Script That Will “Never Ever” Get Made Due To The Fact That of Jessica Bunny

Robert Zemeckis has some problem for fans who would enjoy to see a follow up to Who Framed Roger Bunny

The director appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast with Josh Horowitz today to discuss his most recent movie Here, starring Tom Hanks and Robin Wright. Throughout the discussion, the host asked the filmmaker about a prospective Roger Bunny follow up.

” There’s an excellent script sitting at Disney, however here’s the important things: Here’s what you need to understand, and you understand this, the existing Disney would never ever make Roger Bunny today,” Zemeckis stated. “They can’t make a film with Jessica in it.”.

Though it would appear, in theory, that the business would not skip on what would most likely be a popular follow up, the director indicated Jessica Bunny’s brand-new Toontown ensemble in Disneyland, which is various than her look in the 1988 movie.

” Look what they did to Jessica at the amusement park,” he stated. “They trust her up in a raincoat, you understand.”

In 2021, Disneyland updated Jessica Rabbit’s look in the Anaheim park from her red gown to a raincoat, presumably more in line with her brand-new profession as a private detective, taking after Bob Hoskins’ Eddie Valliant in the task.

The Back to the Future helmer discussed that when he initially started dealing with the film, a brand-new program had actually simply gotten in Disney, and they were “complete of energy” and thrilled for whatever followed.

” Then, I kept stating, and I seriously state this, and I do think this, and I state, ‘I’m making Roger Bunny the method I think Walt Disney would have made it,'” Zemeckis remembered on the podcast. “And the factor I state that is since Walt Disney never ever made any of his films for kids. He constantly made them for grownups. Which’s what I chose to do with Roger Bunny“

In spite of wishing to make the movie the manner in which Walt Disney desired, the Forrest Gump director confessed that he was still stressed over revealing it to kids and their moms and dads.

” One time we did a test sneak peek with simply mommies and kids,” he stated. “I was frightened since these kids resembled 5, 6 years of ages. They definitely were riveted to the film. And I understood that the important things is, kids get whatever. They comprehend. They get it. You do not need to … I believe the important things that Walt Disney never ever did was he never ever patronized the kids in his films. He dealt with the kids like they were grownups.”.