10 Making-Of Movie Secrets Hidden In Plain Sight

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is one of the most technically impressive films ever made, and has lost not a shred of its lustre in the three-plus decades since it first hit cinemas.

The ground-breaking feat of melding live-action and animation required director Robert Zemeckis to plan out every shot of the movie to the most meticulous and mundane detail, but of course, not everything went according to plan.

You'll no doubt remember the unforgettable scene where Roger (Charles Fleischer) is presented with pictures of his wife Jessica Rabbit (Kathleen Turner) playing patty-cake with businessman Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye).

After Acme turns up dead, one of the patty-cake photos taken by Eddie (Bob Hoskins) shows up on the front page of a newspaper, yet Jessica's appearance is noticeably different from that of the pictures shown to Roger earlier.

Here, she's wearing a more modest dress and her face is drawn to more closely resemble a Disney Princess-type character, rather than the seductive femme fatale she is otherwise depicted as.

The reason for this is that Jessica's design hadn't actually been finalised when principal photography took place, and so when Zemeckis finally settled on a sexier version of Jessica, he had the patty-cake photos re-created and inserted into the film.

However, the newspaper shot received no such do-over, giving fans a brief glimpse of how the character's design almost turned out.