As he continues the press tour for the imminent release of Disney's A Christmas Carol, director Robert Zemeckis has been adding more detail to his plans for a sequel to his 80s hit, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Zemeckis, as we've already learnt, has hired the writers of the first film - Jeffrey Price and Peter Seaman - to pen the follow-up, but it also seems that he's interested in applying his performance capture work to the project.

Performance capture is the technique he's used across The Polar Express, Beowulf and now A Christmas Carol, where actors become ‘digital puppets', with their representation coming across as a mix of real life and animation. Talking to MTV about Roger Rabbit 2, Zemeckis revealed that "All the other characters that [the cartoons] would sort of have fun with would be magnificent in performance capture technology."

However, he's resolute that the cartoon characters will stay as they are. "I wouldn't use it for the cartoon characters, because I think they should stay two-dimensional because that's what - I wouldn't dimensonalize Roger. And I couldn't dimensonalize Jessica even if I wanted to because she doesn't have a nose. We wouldn't want to give her a nose."

Should Zemeckis press ahead with using performance capture on Roger Rabbit - and as he revealed when he spoke to us yesterday that he's still not sure which of his projects he'll be filming next - then it'd instantly give the film a marked visual difference from the original. We like the MTV speculation, however, that this would be worked into the story somehow (and there's certainly potential for that to happen), and await further updates on the project with interest.

For now, though, here's that MTV piece.