Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a stone-cold classic, an unparalleled achievement in blending live action and animation, and a love letter to classic cartoons. Director Robert Zemeckis and producer Steven Spielberg had pulled off quite the feat not only in terms of the technology needed to put Bob Hoskins and the eponymous bunny in the same set of handcuffs, but also in organising the various legal wrangles involved in getting Disney and Warner Bros characters to share a screen. Yet they did, and it ended up being the huge success it deserved to be. So, naturally, Spielberg was eager to get a sequel off the ground. Screenwriter Nat Mauldin put together a prequel, Roger Rabbit: The Toon Platoon, set in 1941. The film would see Roger being used in propaganda cartoons in the same way that many characters from the Golden Age of Animation were, with many such characters making cameos in the same way Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny did in the original. Then Spielberg made Schindler's List, Nazis got a lot less funny, and the project was dead in the water. Or flattened by an anvil.
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