After 37 years, Who Framed Roger Rabbit will finally get a sequel… it just won’t be at Disney.

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In a recent interview with ImNotBad.com, a website dedicated exclusively to Jessica Rabbit news, author Gary K. Wolf revealed that he quietly reacquired the rights to Roger Rabbit last year. “I now have back the rights to all my characters, all my books. I can, basically, do my own Roger Rabbit projects,” he shared.

Wolf was able to reclaim ownership through the 35-Year Copyright Reversion Clause, which gives original creators the ability to reclaim rights to their original work after a period of 35 years. The author shared that the process was pretty straightforward, as Disney did not try and stop the rights reversal from happening.

“I expected that this would be a contentious process. Who knows what was going to happen? But, it was not. It was very civil, very courteous, very straightforward,” he said. “Disney was always top-notch for me. They treated me very well. They always accommodated me in whatever I wanted to do.”

With Wolf’s characters back in his domain, the author is planning to reintroduce audiences to Roger Rabbit and the rest of Toontown through several different projects. “A lot of people have asked why didn’t we do the first movie more closely to the Who Censored Roger Rabbit book, with the word balloons and those kinds of characters. Well, that’s on the table,” he said, as is an adaptation of his latest book, 2022’s Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Business.

“The one that is most prominent … is a live-action Jessica Rabbit movie based on the book Jessica Rabbit: XERIOUS Business. That was the first project that we took a look at and the first we started developing. It’s probably the one that’s furthest along right now,” Wolf revealed.

No studios or production companies are involved with Wolf’s Roger Rabbit Universe plans at this time, although the author noted that he would love to work with Disney again. “I’d love for Disney to participate in this. We could partner up on this. There’s a core group of people who were involved with the first movie, and I would love to work with those people again. Steven Spielberg, Robert Zemeckis, Frank Marshall, Kathleen Kennedy. I’d love to have Charles Fleischer come back and voice the rabbit again,” he stated.

Until Wolf’s new Roger Rabbit movies materialize, fans can continue to stream Who Framed Roger Rabbit on Disney+.

(Source: ImNotBad.com)