Writers/Blockbusters Screenwriting Podcast
Sep 19, 2026 · 2 hr 14 min · 19 segments
Jamie, Jimmy and Bob dip into the script to the revolutionary 1988 masterpiece *Who Framed Roger Rabbit*.
Jamie NashHostBob RoseHosti wrote down some stuff i i don't see it on the talking points before we get into who wrote this yeah um about the like some weird differences between yeah go
um i mean obviously yeah the jamie just said it was they weren't movie stars in the book they were comic strip stars yep and what's weird about that is whenever they spoke in the book uh a word bubble would pop bubble popped up and when they when they finished saying it it would fall to the ground and just lay there yes and the reason they didn't keep it in the
to do that but that's such an odd thing the other big thing and we might as well just jump in we'll jump around a little bit but yeah um roger kills he's the like bad guy he kills in it yeah he is like a killer and he dies actually as well the way that the novel does
this is that so the tunes in the novel actually can die as easily as human beings so they can't do their own stunts so they have this kind of power apparently I didn't know this I've never read the book if I'm honest it's called they make doppelgangers called doppels and then they let the doppels who are like shadows of them who only live for like two days or something do the stunts that they can't do and that's why Roger's the one Roger's like the victim but his doppelganger is the actual one that's active in the story he uses his entire life force to create a perfect doppelganger
and if this pitch isn't bad enough guess what he also has a genie yeah there's a genie in there yeah
time judge doom the weasels marvin acme and benny the cab not in the novel completely fabricated for the movie
that's the villain the greasy brothers yeah yeah and even even jessica was very different uh she was a very different character she was she
was she was originally from those like kind of adult magazines that they used to draw i forget the name for them but yeah
had a whole adult very adult bent very adult thing uh very weird very odd um i've never read
with this movie you can talk about all the differences from the novel and then this whole thing went through what like 40 drafts yeah writers different movie at one point And then there's like, you know, how Pee Wee Herman was supposed to be the voice.
i wrote down some stuff i i don't see it on the talking points before we get into who wrote this yeah um about the like some weird differences between yeah go
um i mean obviously yeah the jamie just said it was they weren't movie stars in the book they were comic strip stars yep and what's weird about that is whenever they spoke in the book uh a word bubble would pop bubble popped up and when they when they finished saying it it would fall to the ground and just lay there yes and the reason they didn't keep it in the
to do that but that's such an odd thing the other big thing and we might as well just jump in we'll jump around a little bit but yeah um roger kills he's the like bad guy he kills in it yeah he is like a killer and he dies actually as well the way that the novel does
this is that so the tunes in the novel actually can die as easily as human beings so they can't do their own stunts so they have this kind of power apparently I didn't know this I've never read the book if I'm honest it's called they make doppelgangers called doppels and then they let the doppels who are like shadows of them who only live for like two days or something do the stunts that they can't do and that's why Roger's the one Roger's like the victim but his doppelganger is the actual one that's active in the story he uses his entire life force to create a perfect doppelganger
and if this pitch isn't bad enough guess what he also has a genie yeah there's a genie in there yeah
time judge doom the weasels marvin acme and benny the cab not in the novel completely fabricated for the movie
that's the villain the greasy brothers yeah yeah and even even jessica was very different uh she was a very different character she was she
was she was originally from those like kind of adult magazines that they used to draw i forget the name for them but yeah
had a whole adult very adult bent very adult thing uh very weird very odd um i've never read
with this movie you can talk about all the differences from the novel and then this whole thing went through what like 40 drafts yeah writers different movie at one point And then there's like, you know, how Pee Wee Herman was supposed to be the voice.
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