Cancelling finished movies real people worked on entirely for tax purposes is abhorrent for a whole lot of obvious reasons. But after seeing the final trailer for Coyote vs. ACME, Warner Bros. attempts to bury this film seems just as bizarre as it was repugnant. Because it looks absolutely hilarious.
Warner Bros. couldn’t make money on this? Really? They looked at this fantastic premise and cast and said, “No. No one will see this. Better take the tax write-off?” Absurd.
That word, for a very different, much better reason, also applies to this trailer. From Will Forte playing a scummy attorney correctly calling out ACME for its garbage products to John Cena intewagating widdle Tweedy Bird, we love everything about this. The movie’s official synopsis is just as good. From Ketchup Entertainment:
After decades of being blown to bits by bombs, demolished by dynamite, mangled by magnets, battered by boulders, trampled by trains, tricked by tunnels, sprung by springs, steamrolled by steamrollers, maligned by misfires, bedeviled by bungees, rattled by rockets, backstabbed by bat suits, rocked by rocket skates, upended by unicycles, quaked by quake pills, rubberized by rogue bands, and hurled headlong off every cliff in the Southwest, Wile E. Coyote finally fights back. Teaming up with billboard accident lawyer Kevin Avery, he takes on slick corporate counsel Buddy Crane and ACME, Inc., the profit-obsessed conglomerate behind every one of the Coyote’s chaotic catastrophes.
Directed by Dave Green (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows), Coyote vs. ACME also stars Lana Condor, Tone Bell, and PJ Byrne. It will finally, after far too long a wait, crash into theaters on August 28, 2026.
We know we’ll be there to see it, and not just because some accountants and executives wanted to turn this into nothing more than a line item on a balance sheet.