How fitting that the day after I post an article comparing Megan Fox’ physique to Jessica Rabbit and  I declare a state of insufficient creativity with Hollywood’s increasing bombardment of sequels, this would happen. Acclaimed writer-director Robert Zemeckis, responsible for such cultural movie milestones as the Back To The Future trilogy, Forrest Gump and of course Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, is toying with the idea of bringing back that eccentric cartoon bunny. Forgive my snide tone, I actually think this is a great idea. I used to watch Roger Rabbit all the time as a kid, with Christopher Lloyd scaring the crap out of me as the mayor of Tune Town. A bunch of my buddies and I actually just watched it again recently, for the first time in years, and it was still supremely entertaining.

MTV Movies Blog caught up with Zemeckis at a premiere, asking him whether any upcoming projects would touch back to any of his previous works. He said, “I’ll tell you what is buzzing around in my head now that we have the ability—the digital tools, performance capture—I’m starting to think about ‘Roger Rabbit.”

For being the vision behind such traditionally grounded films in terms of visual effects technology (Forrest Gump, Cast Away), lately he’s really been digging the ability to use CGI and computer animation with The Polar Express and Beowulf. Even his upcoming re-telling of the historic tale A Christmas Carol, with Jim Carrey and Gary Oldman, is animated.

It’s not to say that he wasn’t fond of this filming style before, he did after all create Roger Rabbit in 1988. Even though the animation/live-action filming style had been done many years before, (Bed Knobs, Three Caballeros) he is a director who takes chances. Roger Rabbit not only combined live action with animation, but the animated characters that were featured came from arch rival studios. See photo right of Mickey Mouse from Disney and Bugs Bunny from Warner Bros. together in WFRR?. It was the first on-screen meeting between these two iconic, but competing cartoon movie stars. So Zemeckis, with producer Steven Spielberg’s help, had to convince the suits at Disney and Warner to put aside financial interests and help him facilitate his vision by coming together. A tough task, but it paid off. Roger Rabbit was the first BLOCKBUSTER to use that filming-style. I mean, it  made over $330 million worldwide, back when movie tickets cost like $3.

So with all the continued advancements in technology, (i.e. the face replacement CGI used in Curious Case of BB and the apparent revolutionary 3D technology coming soon with James Cameron’s Avatar) I hope Zemeckis tries something very bold with this new Roger Rabbit.

What Do You Think? Discuss.