10 Insane Movie Sequels Actors Actually Wanted To Make

From its mix of suggestive, adult film noir and silly cartoon slapstick to getting Daffy and Donald Duck to share the screen, Who Framed Roger Rabbit did an incredible job of marrying some very disparate elements into something truly great. For a possible sequel the plan was to go for an even weirder mash-up as the toon underclass shipped out to fight the Nazis.

A prequel giving an origin story for Roger and Jessica Rabbit, Toon Platoon would have seen Roger first coming to a Hollywood in which the segregation parallels in the separation of toons and humans were played up even further. Then war breaks out and a whole host of familiar Looney Tunes and Disney characters are conscripted to fight in Europe thanks to them being practically indestructible.

Jessica, meanwhile, first meets Roger when working for a radio show. Her producer turns out to be a Nazi spy and she is kidnapped and turned into an anti-American propaganda pin-up, prompting Roger to mount a daring rescue.

Of course, as a prequel, Bob Hoskins and the original movie's human cast would not be returning, but the toon cast would. Charles Fleischer, Roger's voice actor, was particularly keen to come back for this weird follow-up whose final reveal would have been that the father who abandoned Roger as a baby was none other than Bugs Bunny.

Producer Steven Spielberg shot down the idea, though, as making Schindler's List had thoroughly turned him against the idea of the Nazis as fun or comedic villains.