Cancelled Roger Rabbit Shorts

[Sotiris]

A couple of cels from the cancelled Roger Rabbit short "Hare in My Soup" have surfaced.



Source: http://toontownantics.blogspot.com/2011 ... -soup.html

[Elladorine]

Wow, missed this post. Great find!

[Tristy]

From the looks of things, it seems like it would have been different from the usual fare which is Roger trying to chase Baby Herman so he doesn't get in trouble. Here the premise looks different. But I guess we'll never see it! Way to go Eisner! Ruining one of your most successful franchises by butting heads with Spielberg and while you're at it why don't you turn Disney Channel into a haven for uncreative teen shows?

[Toky]

....and while you're at it why don't you turn Disney Channel into a haven for uncreative teen shows?

It already has turned into that

[Tristy]

I know. That was kind of a sarcastic joke.

[Toky]

I know. That was kind of a sarcastic joke.

haha ok

[Dr Frankenollie]

The Roger Rabbit shorts are some of the best short animations of the post-Golden Age era. I wish this was completed and released. At least there might be a sequel to the film.

[Sotiris]

Evidently, there was going to be a fifth Roger Rabbit short called "Clean and Oppressed" but was cancelled along with "Hare in My Soup".

In the Boston-Herald newspaper June 23, 1989, Disney producer Don Hahn said, “All of us had knocked around the idea of doing another (Roger Rabbit) short because the other one (at the beginning of the feature film) had been received so well. I came up with a list of about twenty ideas last fall, most of which could be described in one sentence. Then in December we did three up on storyboards. We pitched those to Steven (Spielberg) and Jeffrey Katzenberg and we went away with the idea that Tummy Trouble would be the first.

“That it was going out with Honey I Shrunk the Kids was determined pretty early on. It really wasn’t appropriate to go out with Dead Poet’s Society or something like that. The idea of having them appear at the end in a live action setting like the first one was driven by the Disney Company that wanted it inextricably linked to the first one. The whole idea of the ending was to keep alive the conceptual twist on the characters that the first film had. Just to remind everybody that they exist in that world. (Producer Frank Marshall directed the live-action ending.)

“Other shorts like Roller Coaster Rabbit, Hare in My Soup and Clean and Oppressed are also under consideration. We’re trying to see if we can develop a Tom and Jerry-like group of characters that could exist in a cartoon series. There has to be something that was similar or familiar for an audience going to see them again. If we took the characters completely out of 1948 and out of that genre of movie, I think it would be a little too jarring.”

Source: http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/an ... dotes-246/

[JeanGreyForever]

Evidently, there was going to be a fifth Roger Rabbit short called "Clean and Oppressed" but was cancelled along with "Hare in My Soup".

http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/an ... dotes-246/

Thanks for posting. I would have loved to see a Roger Rabbit animated series in the vein of Tom and Jerry.

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Evidently, there was going to be a fifth Roger Rabbit short called "Clean and Oppressed" but was cancelled along with "Hare in My Soup".

Interesting. As far as I can see, this is not mentioned included on the Wikipedia list yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_u ... ture_films

If anyone wants to add the info, they would be the first to add that title.

[Sotiris]

There was going to be a sixth Roger Rabbit short called "Baby Buggy Blunder" directed by Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale.

After that, they were paired up in the story department on The Rescuers Down Under, but got kicked off the project and tasked with coming up with Roger Rabbit short concepts. They fully storyboarded a short called “Baby Buggy Blunder” that was never produced where Baby Herman’s stroller gets away from Roger while out in the city.

Source: https://www.laughingplace.com/w/article ... ter-hours/

[blackcauldron85]

Here are some more cels that Gary K. Wolf (author of WFRR) posted (reposted by Cartoon Research) on Facebook.

https://imgur.com/a/cl94IA5


https://www.facebook.com/groups/1613467 ... 117122240/

https://www.facebook.com/1498857407/pos ... e=scwspnss