![]() ![]() Instead, Roger Rabbit does what all the best movies with revolutionary technology do - it treated the effects as a tool for telling a story. ![]() If this movie was only about its technological achievements, as impressive as they are, it might feel like a dated relic today. The cartoons cast real shadows, seem to occupy real space and look three-dimensional before computer animation became dominant. This was the first time that a movie like this was made to serve the cartoons first and the people second. Maroon (Alan Tilvern) gives Roger a handkerchief and he cleans his nose with it. Yes, there were other films that integrated cartoon characters with live-action performers, like Mary Poppins and Pete’s Dragon, but none felt as real as when fictional cartoon tycoon R.K. The result was the most ambitious project in the history of American animation. demanding Bugs Bunny to appear only in scenes opposite Mickey Mouse and with the same amount of screen time). In return, Spielberg was able to convince Warner Bros., King Features Syndicate, Felix the Cat Productions, Turner Entertainment, Fleischer Studios and Universal Pictures/Walter Lantz Productions to lend their characters for the unbelievable flat rate of $5,000 per character, with minor stipulations (such as Warner Bros. Spielberg returned the favor and agreed to help produce Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and to bring along Lucas’ team of visual effects wizards from ILM - as long as Amblin Entertainment and Disney split the box-office takes and licensing rights 50-50. Wolf’s 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? Before coming to Disney, Eisner had served as head of production at Paramount Pictures, where he worked with Spielberg and George Lucas on Raiders of the Lost Ark. In 1985, then-new Disney CEO Michael Eisner revamped a dead project about an adaptation of Gary K. The road to Thanos gathering all six infinity stones in Infinity War was long, but the road to Who Framed Roger Rabbit? was the biggest clash of egos in animation. ![]()
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