Who Wacked Roger Rabbit

Who Wacked Roger Rabbit  is upcoming American live-action/animated fantasy comedy film and is the sequel to the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit and based on Gary K. Wolf's 1981 Who Censored Roger Rabbit? and 2014's Who Wacked Roger Rabbit?, directing it is Dean DeBlois with Jonathan Aibel and Glenn Berger writing the script, while first film's director Robert Zemekis will co-produce the film. Jay Baruchel will play Teddy Valiant II son of Eddie Valiant, along Joanna Cassidy and America Ferrera.

Cast

 * Jay Baruchel as Teddy Valiant II


 * America Ferrera


 * Joanna Cassidy as Dolores

Voice Cast

 * Charles Fleischer as Roger Rabbit / Benny the Cab

Developement
With the film's critical and financial success, Disney and Spielberg felt it was obviously time to plan a second installment. Nat Mauldin wrote a prequel titled Roger Rabbit: The Toon Platoon, set in 1941. Similar to the previous film, Toon Platoon featured many cameo appearances by characters from thegolden Age of American animation. It began with Roger Rabbit's early years, living on a farm in theMidwestern United States. With human Richie Davenport, Roger travels west to seek his mother, in the process meeting Jessica Krupnick (his future wife), a struggling Hollywood actress. While Roger and Ritchie are enlisting in the Army, Jessica is kidnapped and forced to make pro-Nazi Germanybroadcasts. Roger and Ritchie must save her by going into Nazi-occupied Europe accompanied by several other `toons in their Army platoon. After their triumph, Roger and Ritchie are given a Hollywood Boulevard parade, and Roger is finally reunited with his mother, and father: Bugs Bunny.

Mauldin later re-titled the script Who Discovered Roger Rabbit. Spielberg left the project when deciding he could not satirize Nazis after directing Schindler's List. Eisner commissioned a rewrite in 1997 with Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver. Although they kept Roger's search for his mother, Stoner and Oliver replaced the WWII subplot with Roger’s inadvertent rise to stardom on Broadway and Hollywood. Disney was impressed and Alan Menken was hired to write five songs for the film and offered his services as executive producer. One of the songs, "This Only Happens in the Movies", was recorded in 2008 on the debut album of Broadway actress Kerry Butler. Eric Goldberg was set to be the new animation director, and began to redesign Roger's new character appearance.

Spielberg had no interest in the project because he was establishing DreamWorks, although Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy decided to stay on as producers. Test footage for Who Discovered Roger Rabbit was shot sometime in 1998 at the Disney animation unit in Lake Buena Vista, Florida; the results were an unwieldy mix of CGI, traditional animation and live-action that did not please Disney. A second test had the Toons completely converted to CGI; but this was dropped as the film's projected budget escalated well past $100 million. Eisner felt it was best to cancel the film. In March 2003, producerDon Hahn was doubtful over of a sequel being made, arguing that public tastes had changed since the 1990s with the rise of computer animation. "There was something very special about that time when animation was not as much in the forefront as it is now."

In December 2007, Marshall admitted he was still "open" to the idea,[62] and in April 2009, Zemeckis revealed he was still interested. According to a 2009 MTV News story, Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman were writing a new script for the project, and the cartoon characters will be in traditional 2D, while the rest will be in motion capture. However, in 2010, Zemeckis said that the sequel will remain hand-drawn animated and live-action sequences will be filmed, just like in the original film, but the lighting effects on the cartoon characters and some of the props that the toons handle will be done digitally. Also in 2010, Don Hahn, who was the film's original associate producer, confirmed the sequel's development in an interview with Empire magazine. He stated, "Yeah, I couldn't possibly comment. I deny completely, but yeah... if you're a fan, pretty soon you're going to be very, very, very happy." In 2010, Bob Hoskins stated he was interested in the project, reprising his role as Eddie Valiant. However, he retired from acting in 2012 after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease a year earlier (and died from those complications in 2014).[68] Marshall has confirmed that the film is a prequel, similar to earlier drafts, and that the writing was almost complete.[69] During an interview at the premiere of Flight, Zemeckis stated that the sequel is still possible, despite Hoskins’ absence, and the script for the sequel was sent to Disney for approval from studio executives.

In February 2013, Gary K. Wolf, creator of Roger Rabbit, that he as well as Erik Von Wodtke were working on a development proposal for an animated Disney buddy comedy starring Mickey Mouse and Roger Rabbit called The Stooge, based on the 1952 film of the same name. The proposed film is set to a prequel, taking place five years before Who Framed Roger Rabbit and part of the story is about how Roger met Jessica, his future wife. Wolf has stated the film is currently wending its way through Disney.

Zemekis signed as producer and confirmed that the sequel will go on without Hoskins and will be about his son who will be named after Eddie's brother.

On July 2014 during the release of How to Train Your Dragon 2 Dean DeBlois enter negotiations to direct, Meanwhile Disney hired Jonathan and Glen Berger to penn the screenplay.

On August 23,2014 Jay Baruchel entered early talks to play Eddie Valiant's along Dragons co-star America Ferrara. One week later DeBlois confirmed that he'll direct after he finishes How to Train Your Dragon 3.