Elsewhere on this website, we’re serializing a multi-part interview with filmmaker Rachel Fleischer and her actor-comedian father Charles. Don’t know him? He’s the voice of Roger Rabbit. Which brings us to my anecdotes.
First, the backstory. The day after Thanksgiving 1987, I went to see Penn & Teller on Broadway along with my publicist pal Jeff Walker and his son Orion (in from La for the Creation convention that weekend). At intermission, we ran into producer Frank Marshall, a fellow magic buff in town to run a marathon before returning to California and two long-planned extra weeks shooting Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which had wrapped principal live-action photography a year previously). These were the Toontown blue-screen sequences as well as some live-action scenes and minor stuff to be reshot. I mentioned how much I was looking forward to Roger Rabbit. Frank Marshall smiled.
Two weeks or so later, I...
First, the backstory. The day after Thanksgiving 1987, I went to see Penn & Teller on Broadway along with my publicist pal Jeff Walker and his son Orion (in from La for the Creation convention that weekend). At intermission, we ran into producer Frank Marshall, a fellow magic buff in town to run a marathon before returning to California and two long-planned extra weeks shooting Who Framed Roger Rabbit (which had wrapped principal live-action photography a year previously). These were the Toontown blue-screen sequences as well as some live-action scenes and minor stuff to be reshot. I mentioned how much I was looking forward to Roger Rabbit. Frank Marshall smiled.
Two weeks or so later, I...
- 9/4/2009
- by no-reply@starlog.com (David McDonnell)
- Starlog
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