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1. 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 ...
Peter S. Seaman was born on 26 October 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Wild Wild West (1999), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000).
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- 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 Rabbit was 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 Indemnity or The Maltese Falcon. The novel by Gary K. Wolf (Who Cen...
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 Rabbit he 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, A...
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 Rabbit executive producer Steven Spielberg managed the same trick again decades later in 2018, bringing so many characters and artifacts togeth...
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) an...
Jeffrey Lawrence Price (born December 18, 1949) and Peter Stewart Seaman (born October 26, 1951) are an American screenwriting and producing duo. They were the screenwriters for Who Framed Roger Rabbit[1], and also contributed to the DVD commentary along with director Robert Zemeckis, producer Frank Marshall, associate producer Steve Starkey, and visual effects supervisor Ken Ralston. Jeffrey ...
Jan 25, 2022 · Directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and loosely adapted by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman from Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, the movie is an absolute, undeniable, and uncontested gem. But before we got the final version of the film, there were a number of adaptations that could ...
Peter S. Seaman. Writer: Wild Wild West. Peter S. Seaman was born on 26 October 1951 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Wild Wild West (1999), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000).
