WHO FRAMEO ROGER RABBIT

“I wanted to do something that incorporated the two loves of my childhood: cartoon characters and noir mysteries,” reveals author Gary K Wolf. In 1981, he used this unusual combo as the inspiration for the book behind Robert Zemeckis’s groundbreaking 1988 hit Who Framed Roger Rabbit. While audiences nearly 40 years on revelled in Steven Spielberg’s pop-culture mash-up Ready Player One, it was back in Toon Town where the mega-director first flexed his unparalleled Hollywood sway to produce a film unlike anything seen before — a cartoon live-action hybrid that did the impossible and introduced Mickey Mouse to Bugs Bunny.

“I was watching Saturday morning cartoons, purely for research,” smiles Wolf, recalling his route into the story, “and I became taken with the commercials. I saw Captain Crunch and Tony the Tiger talking to real kids and nobody seemed to think that was odd. That was when the light bulb went off: What