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Jeffrey Lawrence Price (born December 18, 1949) and Peter Stewart Seaman (born October 26, 1951) are an American screenwriting and producing duo whose notable works include Trenchcoat (1983), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), Doc Hollywood (1991), Wild Wild West (1999), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Last Holiday (2006) and Shrek the ...
Nov 17, 2000 · The screenwriting team of Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman ("Who Framed Roger Rabbit?") doesn't stray far from Dr. Seuss' original 1957 story line. A curmudgeonly hermit, Mr. Grinch, lives...
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Jun 26, 2018 · by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman, is a lot more than a perfunctory base for special effects. While briskly hurling tons of jokes and gags as demanded, the movie also brings some depth to its main characters, and we come to care about them more than expected.
- A Hat Full of Homages
- The Proof of Concept
- The Characters
- Bob Hoskins
- Shooting The Rabbit
- There, But not...
- Not Your Grandparents’ Toons
- Innovation as Storytelling
- Business (Not) as Usual
- The Other Bob
Because the incredible visual invention captured the lion’s share of attention when Who Framed Roger Rabbitwas released worldwide during the last half of 1988, it was easy to miss what an effectively built noir film it was, every bit as emblematic of the genre as Chinatown, Double Indemnityor The Maltese Falcon. The novel by Gary K. Wolf (Who Censo...
Jeffrey Price, screenwriter: We were trying to honor the great heyday of animation, which had fallen fallow by the time we made the movie. We were in the advertising business and we knew some of the great animators that worked at Looney Tunesand MGM. [Roger Rabbit] was also in the tradition of Warner Bros. in its heyday. They satirized a lot of mov...
After being cast as the voice of Roger, stand-up comic and actor Charles Fleischer was on set every day, delivering his lines to give his co-stars a live performanceto react to. Famously, he had a life-size Roger Rabbit suit made to wear throughout production, leading to a (perhaps apocryphal) story of a studio exec in the commissary seeing Fleisch...
Appearing in almost every scene, Hoskins had the hardest job on set, with co-star Joanna Cassidy saying that where she often worked 10 hours days, Hoskins worked 16 or more. The veteran British actor passed away in 2014, aged 71. Joanna Cassidy, Dolores: He was masterful. He had a photographic memory. He was a genius. Charles Fleischer, the voice o...
Dean Cundey, cinematographer: We had 3D maquettes—sculpted rubber posable figures—of Roger or the weasels or the other toon characters, all full-sized according to how they were supposed to look in the film. We’d rehearse the scene with the maquettes, either Bob [Zemeckis] or I manipulating them to move through the scene so the actors could visuali...
Painting out scaffolds, wires, and other support structures for props is a snap in the CGI era, but every time a toon interacted with a real prop or person, the shoot had to be blocked and staged so the animators could use the toon characters partly to hide the wires and on-set tricks used to manipulate real objects. Joanna Cassidy, Dolores: We had...
The opening of the film is the Maroon Studios’ ‘Somethin’s Cooking’, which introduces us to Roger and his friend and frequent co-star, Baby Herman (Lou Hirsch). Looking every bit like a classic Looney Tunes cartoon, the scene ends and Roger and Herman leave the animated set into the real world of light, shadow, and 3D depth. It seems a creative and...
It was a movie of many firsts. When we first approached cinematographer Dean Cundey to talk about Who Framed Roger Rabbithe was delighted, still considering it the most fun adventure he’s had in his career. He was Oscar-nominated, and the film went on to win four Academy Awards, with animator Richard Williams winning a special achievement award, Ar...
On the 2003 two-disc DVD release commentary, Robert Zemeckis muses that getting so many characters together from different studios was so difficult it would probably never happen again. But Who Framed Roger Rabbitexecutive producer Steven Spielberg managed the same trick again decades later in 2018, bringing so many characters and artifacts togethe...
Where an entire generation was introduced to Bob Hoskins (and his older fans saw a whole new side to him) with Roger Rabbit, the film was just as pivotal to Bob Zemeckis’ career. He’d started the ‘80s reeling from the commercial failure of Used Cars (1980), but after the one-two-three punch of Romancing the Stone(1984), Back to the Future(1985) and...
Based on Gary K. Wolf’s novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, screenwriters Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman crafted a world where almost anything is possible. Set in a 1940s Hollywood where cartoon characters are real, private investigator Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is hired to prove the innocence in a murder
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Oct 13, 2023 · Jeffrey Lawrence Price (born December 18, 1949) and Peter Stewart Seaman (born October 26, 1951) are an American screenwriting and producing duo whose notable works include Trenchcoat (1983), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), [1] Doc Hollywood (1991), Wild Wild West (1999), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Last Holiday (2006) and Shrek the ...
Johnny Bago: Created by Jeffrey Price, Peter S. Seaman, Robert Zemeckis. With Peter Dobson, Rose Abdoo, Anna Berger, Richard Romanus. After a Federal faux pas, small-time mobster John Tenuti flees West across the U.S., pursued by bumbling goons from his Jersey outfit plus his rabid ex-wife, a Fed herself (Rose Abdoo).
