Harrison Ford was Spielberg's original choice to play Eddie Valiant, but was too expensive. Tim Curry original auditioned for the role of Judge Doom, but after his audition, the producers found him too terrifying for the role. Seaman were brought aboard to continue writing the script once Spielberg and Zemeckis were hired. For inspiration, the two writers studied the work of Walt Disney and Warner Bros. Chinatown influenced the storyline. Price and Seaman also created the urban political corruption subplot.
During the writing process, Price and Seaman were unsure of who to include as antagonist. They wrote scripts that had either Jessica Rabbit or Baby Herman as the villain, but they made their final decision with newly-created character Judge Doom. Doom was supposed to have an animated vulture sit on his shoulder, but this was deleted for technical challenges.
Benny the Cab was first rendered to be a Volkswagen Beetle instead of a Taxicab. Williams admitted he was "openly disdainful of the Disney bureaucracy" and refused to work in Los Angeles. To accommodate him and his animators, production was moved to Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire, England. Disney and Spielberg also told Williams that in return for doing Roger Rabbit , they would help distribute his unproduced film The Thief and the Cobbler.
The production budget continued to escalate while the shooting schedule lapsed longer than expected. Disney moved forward on production despite the escalating budget because they were enthusiastic to work with Spielberg.
VistaVision cameras installed with motion control technology were used to accommodate the split screen photography of animation and live action. Mime artists, puppeteers, mannequins, and robotic arms were commonly used during filming to help the actors interact with "open air".
Filming began on December 5 , , and lasted for 7. Post-production lasted for one year, and during this time ILM finished the color compositing. Jessica's dress in the night club scene, for instance, had flashing sequins, an effect created by filtering light through a plastic bag scratched with steel wool.
Zemeckis joked that "the British could not keep up with Silvestri's Jazz tempo". The work of Carl Stalling heavily influenced Silvestri. Eisner and Zemeckis disagreed over elements with the film, but since Zemeckis had final cut privilege, he refused to make alterations. Jeffrey Katzenberg felt it was appropriate to release the film under their Touchstone Pictures banner. At the time of release, Roger Rabbit was the twentieth highest-grossing film of all time.
The film was also the second highest grossing film of , only behind Rain Man. Roger Ebert gave a largely positive review, predicting it would carry "the type of word of mouth that money can't buy. This movie is not only great entertainment but a breakthrough in craftsmanship. However, Richard Corliss , writing for Time magazine, gave a mixed review. The opening scene upstages the movie that emerges from it," he said. Corliss was mainly annoyed by the homages towards the Golden Age of American animation.
The consensus reads: " Who Framed Roger Rabbit is an innovative and entertaining film that features a groundbreaking mix of live action and animation, with a touching and original story to boot. Nominations included Art Direction, Cinematography, and Sound.
Richard Williams received a Special Achievement Award "for animation direction and creation of the cartoon characters". Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, and Joanna Cassidy were nominated for their performances, while Alan Silvestri and the screenwriters received nominations. The film was nominated for four categories at the 42nd British Academy Film Awards and won awards for its visual effects. The film first premiered on television on The Disney Channel on June 1, It would've been rated PG due to the adult content after having been released after the 80s.
Several Easter eggs were hidden in the film by its animators. Tape-based analog video such as VHS did not reveal these, but technologies with better image quality, such as the analog laserdisc, were said to reveal the phone number of then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner. They were excited by the prospect of creating a Toon community, with a variety of cartoon characters, culled from different studios, and presented together on screen for the first time.
It was Spielberg who was able to help along the complicated negotiations necessary to bring the classic animated personalities together. Zemeckis welcomed the chance to create a new cartoon character, Roger Rabbit. Prompted by a suggestion from Zemeckis, Lloyd does not blink even once while onscreen in the film. Voice actor Charles Fleischer was so devoted to his role as the animated title character that he asked the costume department to create a full-body Roger Rabbit suit for him to wear on set.
Fleischer delivered all of his lines from inside the suit, claiming that it helped both him and costar Hoskins immerse within the fantastical world of the film even though Fleischer admits that Hoskins initially thought he was out of his mind. The ingredients of the dip are revealed to be turpentine, benzene, and acetone, which are all paint thinners commonly used to erase animation cells in other words, wipe out cartoon characters.
The character never speaks, but it squeaks and whimpers as the Judge lowers it into a vat of dip. Terry Gilliam was offered the chance to direct, and Bill Murray was approached to star.
Seaman hired to write the screenplay. Seemingly before they were even on board, though, a director was approached, in the shape of Monty Python member Terry Gilliam. Apparently, years later, Murray was devastated to hear that he was in the running, saying that he would have taken the part in a heartbeat.
Ever wondered exactly how many cartoon cameos there are in the film? At the time, the film was perhaps best known for collecting a whole host of cartoon cameos, and it marked the first time that Warner Bros. Until quite late on, he was meant to have an animated vulture sitting on his shoulder, while he carried a suitcase containing 12 kangaroos, which served as a jury their roos would produce letters from the pouch, spelling out Y-O-U A-R-E G-U-I-L-T-Y.
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