![]() ![]() Jessica Rabbit plays with the same femme-fatale tropes as her counterpart, but the film version is ultimately shown to genuinely love her husband, which was quite the opposite in the book version, where she despised him.īaby Herman also appears in the novel, but all the other memorable characters from the film, such as Benny the Cab, Judge Doom, and The Weasels, are absent from the book. ![]() Roger is made into a more sweet and lovable character, versus the unlikable cad he was in the book. In fact, the only real similarity is that Eddie is still a detective, but even then, his story is given more depth with the tragic loss of his brother and his own grief-driven self-destruction. Needless to say, the film version made… a few changes. Unfortunately, before Eddie can crack the case, Roger is murdered and the detective is dragged into a four-color world of deceit, double-crosses, and killer cream pies. Eddie Valiant, a hard-boiled detective, is hired by one such comic character, Roger Rabbit, to find out why his bosses at the newspaper syndicate won’t give him his own strip. In the novel, newspaper comic strip characters are real and live their daily lives alongside humans. In 1981, Disney bought the film rights to a book called Who Censored Roger Rabbit? by Gary K. Yes, it’s based on a book, but the similarities are few. So p-p-p-p-please hold on to your hand buzzers and disappearing ink, because here come some amazing facts you may not have known about Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. It was also the most expensive movie ever made at that time. ![]() Not only that, the live-action and cartoon hybrid film won numerous awards for its special effects and ingenuity, including three Oscars ( Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing, and Best Sound Effects Editing). Originally released on June 22, 1988, the film was a huge box office sensation and became the second highest grossing film of the entire year. Hard to believe, but the iconic film Who Framed Roger Rabbit had its 30th anniversary this year. ![]()
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