{"id":469817,"date":"2025-12-25T01:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/469817\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T01:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T01:07:17","slug":"disney-has-officially-lost-roger-rabbit-thats-great-news-for-a-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/469817\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Has Officially Lost Roger Rabbit (& That’s Great News For A Sequel)"},"content":{"rendered":"

37 years after his first theatrical appearance, Roger Rabbit\u2019s chances of returning to the big-screen have just increased, as Disney no longer has the rights to the character. Shortly after the publication of Gary K. Wolf\u2019s 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, Walt Disney Productions purchased the rights to the titular anthropomorphic character and produced one of the greatest live-action and animation hybrid movies ever. Who Framed Roger Rabbit?<\/a>, directed by Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Cast Away), hit theaters in June 1988, but, despite its popularity and influence, a sequel never came to fruition.<\/p>\n

A sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?<\/a> had been discussed and planned since 1989, but never came to pass. Now, because of a 35-Year Copyright Reversion Clause, Gary K. Wolf has regained the rights to his iconic character, removing creative control from Disney, and allowing him to develop his own projects focused on Roger Rabbit and his supporting cast. \u201cI can basically do my own Roger Rabbit projects,\u201d Wolf confirmed in an interview with IMNOTBAD.com (via Cartoon Brew<\/a>), which makes us very excited to see the iconic character back in his creator\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

What Roger Rabbit Sequels & Spinoffs Could Be Produced Now?<\/p>\n

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Who Censored Roger Rabbit? was just the first novel featuring the titular character written by Wolf, but certainly not the last. Roger returned in 1991\u2019s Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? and 2013\u2019s Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?, both of which could now form the basis for sequels to the animation and live-action hybrid movie, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? The 1988 movie was a milestone in cinema history, and is regarded as one of the most culturally-significant and ground-breaking movies of all time. It\u2019s shocking Disney never followed through with a sequel, but Wolf can now do better.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny sequels that we do have to at least match the quality of the original movie,\u201d Wolf noted during his recent interview. \u201cIt has to be as good, or better than, what we did before. That\u2019s what the fans want, and I have promised the fans that\u2019s what I\u2019m going to give them.\u201d While Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit? and Who Wacked Roger Rabbit? could be adapted into sequels, however, Wolf has confirmed that he and his team are working on developing a live-action adaptation of his 2022 novel Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Business, which explores Jessica Rabbit\u2019s origins.<\/p>\n

Jessica Rabbit is the wife of Roger Rabbit<\/a> and one of the most notable and iconic animated sex symbols in cinema history. Wolf has confirmed that an adaptation of Jessica Rabbit\u2019s first novel is \u201cprobably the one that\u2019s furthest along right now,\u201d meaning we could be getting a follow-up to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? very soon. Whether original voice actor Kathleen Turner will return to voice Jessica Rabbit, or whether another of her voice actors will be involved, is yet to be revealed, but it will be fantastic to finally see the Roger Rabbit IP back on our screens.<\/p>\n

What do you think? Leave a comment below and\u00a0join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"37 years after his first theatrical appearance, Roger Rabbit\u2019s chances of returning to the big-screen have just increased,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":469818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[183120,7299,171,53,213451,67,132,68,171460],"class_list":{"0":"post-469817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-answer-feature","9":"tag-disney","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-robert-zemeckis","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us","16":"tag-who-framed-roger-rabbit"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115777540942374212","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}