The Disney Animation Department in the late 1970s and early 1980s was moribund in the opinion of Brad Bird, and he was quite vocal in his opinion. It ultimately got him fired. He worked on ‘The Plague Dogs’, which was produced in the San Francisco Bay area. ‘The Plague Dogs’ …
Who Censored Roger Rabbit? was Gary K. Wolf’s fourth published novel. It was intended as the fourth book of a four-book contract with Doubleday, but Doubleday rejected it. They said that it was ‘not categorizable’ and nobody would know where to put it on the bookstore shelves. Wolf asked them …
The Disney Roger Rabbit development unit was led by Darrell Van Citters, as director, and Marc Stirdivant, as producer. It included Mike Giaimo, designer. Peter Seaman and Jeffrey Price had completed a screenplay, Malta Wants Me Dead, which was eventually produced by Disney as Trenchcoat – although it was not released …
The first public mention of a Roger Rabbit film was in the 1981 Walt Disney Productions Annual Report. Page 26 shows an early character design for Roger Rabbit. The caption states that the film was scheduled for a 1983 release. Marc Stirdivant was slated to be the producer and Darrell …
