Wednesday brought the first look at Coyote vs. Acme, the long-anticipated Looney Tunes live-action/animated hybrid, which hits theaters August 28.
SNL alum Will Forte stars in the film, from director Dave Green, playing an attorney representing Wile E. Coyote in a court case against Acme Corp.
While Warner Bros. long ago completed and tested the film, also starring John Cena and Lana Condor, they shelved it all the way back in the fall of 2023 amid rampant cost-cutting efforts led by Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav. The move ignited outrage not only among the film’s key creatives, but across Hollywood at large, leading the studio to shop the project. Multiple studios placed bids, but Ketchup Entertainment wound up landing the project in a deal valued at around $50M, as we first reported last March.
Written by Samy Burch, from a story she conceived with James
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