“The crew were Dutch, Spanish, Canadian,” Deja said. Deja, who was the animator of many memorable Disney characters, including Scar in “The Lion King,” was dispatched by the studio to help. He then hired Richard Williams, a Canadian animator based in London, to be director of animation.Įxteriors were shot in late 1986 on Hope Street in downtown Los Angeles and then the production moved to London, where Williams had set up the animation team. Zemeckis said Spielberg’s “good will” in the industry facilitated getting competing studios to allow their cartoon characters to appear in the film: “We were in the perfect place at the perfect time.” “The new regime at Disney was very enthusiastic about going forward.” “I said, ‘I read that script years ago.’ He said, ‘Let’s do it,’” Zemeckis said. PHOTOS: Behind-the-scenes Classic Hollywood Spielberg mentioned the project to Zemeckis. “After Steven Spielberg and I made ‘Back to the Future,’ the new regime had gone through their films and thought maybe Steven would be interested in ‘Roger Rabbit,’” Zemeckis said. Years went by and a new regime took over at Disney: Michael Eisner, Frank Wells and Jeffrey Katzenberg, who now heads up DreamWorks Animation. “I thought it was always a great idea, but it needed massive amounts of development,” Zemeckis recalled, and in any case he was busy developing what would become his 1984 hit, “Romancing the Stone.” Zemeckis had directed two films at that point, “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” and “Used Cars.” “Disney sent our script out to several directors, and one of them was Bob Zemeckis,” said Seaman. Wolf’s novel, “Who Censored Roger Rabbit?” Seven years before the film was released, Seaman and Price were hired by Disney to adapt Gary K.
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