- In the Parks
- Yes
I'm looking for a lost script for the sequel to Roger Rabbit based on Mickey's Toontown origins take place in 1954.
Look down the comments on this site:
thedissolve.com
It's one of the comments by SomeJerkWithACamera:
One of the first ideas developed for a feature-length ROGER sequel would've taken place seven years after the first film, in 1954. The premise was this: cheap television animation is rapidly replacing theatrical shorts in public consciousness, and every cartoon studio in Hollywood, including Maroon Cartoons, is shutting down. Roger can't quite make it in television, so Eddie gives him a break and makes him his new detective partner, and their very first client is none other than Walt Freakin' Disney, who hires them to investigate some mysterious goings-on at a certain construction site in Anaheim. Y'see, as so many out-of-work toons are being forced to sell off their property just to make ends meet, Toontown is eroding and Walt is fearing for his characters, so under the guise of building a theme park, he founds "Mickey's Toontown" - a secret hidden community behind Disneyland for all his characters to live and be protected indefinitely. The film's climax was to be a battle royal pitting all the Disney heroes against all the Disney villains. In one scene of the script, Roger asks Walt, "are you ever gonna open Mickey's Toontown to the public?" And Walt responds, "maybe someday." That sequel would've come out in roughly 1992, and in real life, Mickey's Toontown actually opened as a Disneyland land in January 1993. Even more ingeniously, while shooting the sequel in Europe, they were gonna use the then-under-construction EuroDisneyland site as the shooting location for under-construction Disneyland. I know, that idea sounds pretty crass...but to a Disneyland nerd like myself, it would've been awesome. So, why wasn't it made? Again, no one quite knows for sure...but we do know that by this time, Amblin was VERY firmly invested in Universal theme parks; in the 90s more than half of the big rides at Universal were based on Amblin properties (Jaws, E.T., Back To The Future, Jurassic Park, An American Tail, etc.) and I SERIOUSLY doubt the Universal park executives would've appreciated Spielberg's name on a film that was basically a feature-length commercial for their competition.
Look down the comments on this site:
What’s holding back the Who Framed Roger Rabbit sequel?
Director Robert Zemeckis has been pitching Roger Rabbit 2 almost from the minute the first film hit the screen in 1988. So what’s the ...
It's one of the comments by SomeJerkWithACamera:
One of the first ideas developed for a feature-length ROGER sequel would've taken place seven years after the first film, in 1954. The premise was this: cheap television animation is rapidly replacing theatrical shorts in public consciousness, and every cartoon studio in Hollywood, including Maroon Cartoons, is shutting down. Roger can't quite make it in television, so Eddie gives him a break and makes him his new detective partner, and their very first client is none other than Walt Freakin' Disney, who hires them to investigate some mysterious goings-on at a certain construction site in Anaheim. Y'see, as so many out-of-work toons are being forced to sell off their property just to make ends meet, Toontown is eroding and Walt is fearing for his characters, so under the guise of building a theme park, he founds "Mickey's Toontown" - a secret hidden community behind Disneyland for all his characters to live and be protected indefinitely. The film's climax was to be a battle royal pitting all the Disney heroes against all the Disney villains. In one scene of the script, Roger asks Walt, "are you ever gonna open Mickey's Toontown to the public?" And Walt responds, "maybe someday." That sequel would've come out in roughly 1992, and in real life, Mickey's Toontown actually opened as a Disneyland land in January 1993. Even more ingeniously, while shooting the sequel in Europe, they were gonna use the then-under-construction EuroDisneyland site as the shooting location for under-construction Disneyland. I know, that idea sounds pretty crass...but to a Disneyland nerd like myself, it would've been awesome. So, why wasn't it made? Again, no one quite knows for sure...but we do know that by this time, Amblin was VERY firmly invested in Universal theme parks; in the 90s more than half of the big rides at Universal were based on Amblin properties (Jaws, E.T., Back To The Future, Jurassic Park, An American Tail, etc.) and I SERIOUSLY doubt the Universal park executives would've appreciated Spielberg's name on a film that was basically a feature-length commercial for their competition.