Who is Susie Rabbit?

Who is Susie Rabbit? is an American live-action/animated action-adventure-comedy film, serving as a sequel to Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, being directed by Robert Zemeckis (live-action) and Eric Goldberg (animation). It is produced by The Kennedy/Marshall Company, ImageMovers, Amblin Entertainment, Amblimation, Warner Bros. Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios and co-distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures, being released on May 23rd, 2008.

Summary
Set several decades after the defeat of Judge Doom, Maroon Studios has changed and moved past the zany cartoon antics into a more modern foray. As a result, Roger Rabbit's daughter works with an aspiring actress in order to bring back the zany in Maroon, being unaware of the CEO's plot to kill the both of them.

Full plot
The film begins in Los Angeles in 1998 as a tour guide is guiding a group of tourists into the Maroon Studios while telling the story of Eddie Valiant's heroics and how he defeated Judge Doom. The tour guide explains that Maroon Studios has changed over the years and adapting to ages with the advent of television animation while still compromised with their heritage as she introduces the tourists to the company's CEO. One of the tourists is Scarlet Mason who got her first chance in Hollywood and has always looked for cartoon female role models like Olive Oyl, Daphne Blake and Jessica Rabbit, although she shows disappointment about how Maroon has shifted into edgier and childish features while ignoring their own iconic star Roger Rabbit. the Tour guide then explains that he and Jessica retired on their own in the 1970s and have since passed the torch to their 18-year-old daughter Susie who was coincidentally there to greet whoever wanted to talk with her. Susie then comments she has been different from other toon humans due to bearing rabbit-like traits, namely ears, buckteeth and a tail, all inherited from her father, as Scarlet proceeds to greet her and fangirls over the past of Maroon Studios. Susie quickly takes a liking of her and then leads her to her a toon-ran bar as they discuss how influential Roger and Jessica were to them while being unaware that the current head of Maroon Studios has a completely different plan about Susie and her parents by discontinuing them in favor of a more mainstream IP that could be better exploitable for children. To achieve it, he proceeds to hire a completely distinct toon that can TBD.

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Cast

 * Anne Hathaway as Scarlet Mason, a young and aspiring film actress who works with Susie in order to bring Maroon Studios back to its glory while wanting to find her big break.
 * Jake Gyllenhaal as Henry David, a youthful and up and coming script writer who both Susie and Scarlet end up convincing to help write a new script for a cartoon as he soon grows a crush on Scarlet.
 * Jeff Bridges as Claude Maelstrom, the corrupt CEO of Maroon Studios who wants to wipe out the roots of the studio, wanting to kill Susie and Scarlet in order to do so.

Voice cast

 * Jennifer Hale as Susie Rabbit, the young and giddy daughter of Roger and Jessica Rabbit who wants to bring back Maroon Studios to its old glory.
 * Samuel L. Jackson as Eugene the Sports Car, Susie's personal sports car who was made as a replacement for Benny the Cab as he is extremely friendly.
 * Rob Paulsen as Wacky Wombat, one of Maroon's last attempts to create a new cartoon character who is extremely zany and wild as he joins Susie and Scarlet in order to help them.
 * Charles Fleischer and Kathleen Turner as Roger and Jessica Rabbit, Susie's parents who have retired from doing cartoons as they show slight concern for her safety.
 * Michael Clarke Duncan as the Tooninator, a robotic toon created by Maelstrom for only one purpose: to find and eliminate toons he finds to be troublesome to his goals.
 * Richard Steven Horvitz as Eddie Cashew, an egotistical and annoying cashew who is Maroon's newest mascot as he wants to help make sure Susie doesn't help bring back the zany side of Maroon.

Cartoon cameos

 * Wayne Allwine as Mickey Mouse
 * Russi Taylor as Minnie Mouse, Huey, Dewey and Louie
 * Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck
 * Tress MacNeille as Daisy Duck, Babs Bunny and Dot Warner
 * Bill Farmer as Goofy Goof, Pluto, Foghorn Leghorn and Bullwinkle J. Moose
 * Alan Young as Scrooge McDuck
 * Jim Cummings as Peg-Leg Pete, the Tasmanian Devil, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger and Dick Dastardly
 * Joe Alaskey as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester Pussycat, Tweety Bird, Plucky Duck, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble and Droopy
 * Bob Bergen as Porky Pig
 * Kath Soucie as Lola Bunny
 * Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo, Fred Jones, Tom Cat (vocal effects), Jerry Mouse (vocal effects), Muttley (vocal effects) and Jabberjaw
 * Casey Kasem as Shaggy Rogers
 * Grey DeLisle as Daphne Blake and Rocky J. Squirrel
 * Mindy Cohn as Velma Dinkley
 * Charlie Adler as Buster Bunny
 * Rob Paulsen as Yakko Warner
 * Jess Harnell as Wakko Warner
 * Tom Kenny as Boo-Boo Bear
 * Billy West as Woody Woodpecker and Elmer Fudd
 * John DiMaggio as Popeye the Sailor and Bluto
 * Tara Strong as Betty Boop and Olive Oyl

Logo variations

 * Walt Disney Pictures: the 1985 logo plays instead of the 2006 one, being accompanied by a reorchestrated version of its fanfare.
 * Warner Bros. Pictures: a version of the 1984 logo with the Time Warner byline plays instead of the of the 2003 variant of the 1998 one, being accompanied by a reorchestration of the Max Steiner fanfare.
 * Walt Disney Animation Studios: instead of Mickey whistling, it's Roger Rabbit as soon he breathes heavily after whistling.
 * Amblin Entertainment: the 1985 logo plays normally.
 * Amblimation: the 1989 logo also plays normally.

Transcript
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Trivia

 * Unlike the first film where they only licensed their characters, Warner Bros. has convinced Disney to allow them to co-produce and co-finance the film in exchange of licensing once more their Looney Tunes characters as well as the ones of Hanna-Barbera (which has been acquired by Time Warner through its merger with Turner Broadcasting System in 1996) thanks to Amblin's ties with the company on television animation in the 1990s and that way having a tighter control on how to portray their characters.
 * On the other side, Universal Studios (which owns Woody Woodpecker), King Features Syndicate (which owns Popeye and Betty Boop) and Classic Media (which owns Rocky and Bullwinkle) limited themselves to simply license their characters.
 * The film's developers initially intended for Susie to be voiced by a celebrity voice, but they eventually decided it would sound too distracting and too recognizable if the idea moved forward, opting to casting a voice actress instead due to their ability to create a new and unique voice with their main requirements being to manage to be slightly goofy like her father and being able to sing like her mother.
 * Initial drafts planned to use characters created for cable channels like Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network, but the writers eventually opted to back out of it to focus more on classic IPs.
 * In fact, the Hanna-Barbera (save for the Tom and Jerry ones), Tiny Toon Adventures, Animaniacs and Rocky and Bullwinkle characters are the only characters appearing in the movie that were specifically created for television.