13 Awesome Movie Sequel Pitches That Were Stupidly Scrapped

5. Roger Rabbit Vs. Nazis - Roger Rabbit: The Toon Platoon

The Pitch: It stands to reason that a film as nutty as Who Framed Roger Rabbit deserves an equally bonkers sequel, and Robert Zemeckis sure had that in mind when he planned to make Roger Rabbit: The Toon Platoon.

Set in 1941, the film would follow Roger as he traveled the U.S. in search of his mother, met the future Jessica Rabbit, and when she was kidnapped and forced to read Nazi propaganda, headed to Nazi-occupied Europe with his Toon Platoon to rescue her.

And if that wasn't mental enough, he triumphantly returns home at the end to be greeted by his father, who is revealed to be none other than Bugs Bunny.

What Happened?: Steven Spielberg bailed from the project when he felt he couldn't satirise Nazis after making Schindler's List, and by 1997 most of the sequel's best ideas had sadly been written out.

Zemeckis is still trying to get a sequel made, complete with a digital Bob Hoskins, but Disney doesn't seem much interested, and it'd clearly be miles away from that incredible original vision.