'Chinatown' Helped Inspire 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'

Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) with a bandage on his nose, looks at Evelyn (Faye Dunaway) driving in 'Chinatown.'

The Big Picture "Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown". This famous line and the movie it originates from is celebrated its 50th anniversary on June 20th. Chinatown, one of Paramount's hallmark films, represents the finest of the New Hollywood Era and is considered one of the greatest films of all time.

Taking sixteen years to come to fruition, Towne did follow through with his plans to make "Chinatown 2". The sequel, The Two Jakes, was notoriously met with years in "development hell." According to the LA Times, the script was written by Towne in 1984, who was scheduled to direct the picture when Roman Polanski escaped to France after pleading guilty to unlawful sex with a minor.

The sequel was released on August 10, 1990, to mixed reviews and failed to make a mark at the box office. Critics deemed the film boring and an "unsatisfying follow-up to Chinatown". According to Yahoo!, the making of The Two Jakes broke the relationship between Nicholson, Towne, and Evans, sending Evans to the hospital for mental health complications and drug abuse.

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