Rescue Rangers Is A Spiritual Successor To Roger Rabbit
With no true sequel, many have tried to recreate the magic, charm, and wit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; however, Disney+’s Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers may prove to be another spiritual successor to the film. Known for its imaginative premise and memorable characters, it was strange that Gary K. Wolf’s Roger Rabbit never returned to the big screen for another movie. However, while Roger’s presence as a pop culture icon has diminished over the years, it’s obvious that the spirit of Toontown is alive, well, and continuing to influence Disney’s more ambitious projects.
Originally broadcast in the ‘80s, Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers was an animated series that reimagined the classic characters as detectives. Supposedly in development since 2014, a film based around Chip and Dale eventually was announced for release on Disney+ in 2022, with Akiva Schaffer of The Lonely Island directing the movie. The film’s first trailer revealed that the movie was a meta-comedy in which Rescue Rangers was a television show that the chipmunks starred in before being canceled in 1990.
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Between the meta-inspired premise and its cameos from other cartoon characters, the first trailer for Disney+’s Rescue Rangers garnered as much confusion as it did curiosity from audiences. Rather than a direct continuation of Chip and Dale’s previous adventures, the movie became a mystery set in a world where cartoons were celebrities and live side-by-side with humans. Strangely, Disney’s project seemed to have more in common with Who Framed Roger Rabbit? than it did with its source material; that’s because the movie wasn't supposed to be a direct adaptation of Disney’s ‘80s and ‘90s
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