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5.11.09 # Sequel # 7 Comments
It was recently announced that the wheels have begun turning on a much belated sequel to the classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit with a script being written by the original’s scribes Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman.
A burning question however has been whether it will be the traditional mix of live action and hand-drawn animation that made the first film so distinct or will Robert Zemeckis be implementing motion capture technology he has been perfecting since Polar Express in 2004?
MTV has the story -
“All the other characters that [the cartoons] would sort of have fun with would be magnificent in performance capture technology,” [Zemeckis] explained.
Inherent in this admission is the matter of 3-D technology. Starting with The Polar Express in 2004, all of Zemeckis’ mo-cap movies have also been in three dimensions. So when the director talks about using performance-capture, he’s also talking about making Roger Rabbit partly in 3-D. But he also ruled out using 3-D or mo-cap when it comes to the cartoons, including the title rabbit and his voluptuous beau, Jessica.
“I wouldn’t use it for the cartoon characters, because I think they should stay two-dimensional because that’s what — I wouldn’t dimensonalize Roger,” he said. “And I couldn’t dimensonalize Jessica even if I wanted to because she doesn’t have a nose. We wouldn’t want to give her a nose.”
It’s strange that he’s considering using motion capture for characters OTHER than the cartoons in the film. Much of the charm of the original lay in the contrast between the gritty realism of the real world versus the garish, out of place cartoon characters. If the whole world is animated (be it in 3D or 2D) this unique aesthetic would be lost. What do you think? Would you be upset to see an all-animated sequel to Roger Rabbit?
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i personaly dont think that its a good idea to make dat movie
first one was a classic
im just so sick of sequels and remakes
could people please start making original mvies
So Roger Rabbit will still be 2-D but the real world will now be 3-D mo-cap? Well… It’s not how I would have done it. But at least it will do a lot to distance it from the first movie, it really will be a whole new ball game. And it means Bob Hoskins can be middle aged again.
I’m pretty much alone in really enjoying all of Robert Zemeckis’s 3-D mo-cap movies, for me they are sheer spectacle, and that’s missing in so much of cinema these days. Also he always tells a good story, no matter what the medium.
This idea sounds a bit confused?
Surely he would need to stick in modern CGI cartoon characters like Buzz Lightyear and Shrek to make it relatable to kids. Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny are pretty much for pre-school kids only nowadays.
I’m sure Zemeckis would pull something flashy out of the bag but I don’t know if completely CGI humans is really in keeping with the first much-loved original. I did just see a video on an amazing new photo-capture animation process that makes CGI look ultra-realistic, maybe even indistinguishable – http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/11/04/animating-a-photo-real-digital-face
i dunno, this could be good or absolutly terrible, im on the fence guys
Can you imagine Cartman or Peter Griffin showing up in Roger Rabbit 2?? Frickin’ sweet…
I’m super pumped for this movie, and I can’t wait to see it. But I’m going to have to ask you guys to use your heads a little when it comes to comments about which Toons will cameo in the film. Since the franchise is set in the 1940s, don’t you think it’d be a little weird to see characters from modern franchises like Toy Story and Family Guy in there? If they decide to do something so atrocious, the movie will lose a lot of its charm (not that I wouldn’t still watch it).
i say mocap the whole thing, thats what id like to see roger & jessica in 3d. But maybe what hes thinking is motion capturing the human world. Just think a mixture of the original roger rabbit in 2D and The Polar Express 3D