Ah, that crazy coyote. He may never catch the Road Runner, but it looks like he’s caught the showbiz bug in a big way, as Warner Bros. is currently developing a new movie centered around him.
Uncharacteristically, it’s not called Road RunnerOpens in a new tab, but rather Coyote vs. Acme. Right off the bat, that sounds like a court case, and one fans have joked over the years is long overdue: defective Acme products have caused Wile E. CoyoteOpens in a new tab so many injuries he’s probably bankrupt a million times over from Toon Town hospital bills. (No way dude can get insurance with his track record.)
Deadline is reportingOpens in a new tab that Jon and Josh Silberman, the writer-producer team from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Living Biblically, are writing the script, with The LEGOOpens in a new tab Batman Movie‘s Chris McKay producing. Wile E. Coyote’s previous big-screen credits include Looney TunesOpens in a new tab: Back in Action, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Space Jam, and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie. This will be his first lead role. (Nerdist has reached out for independent confirmation, but not received comment as of publish time.)
If you’re wondering how a non-speaking character can hold the screen, it’s worth remembering that Wile E. can talk–there’s just never any point in communicating with a bird that speaks only in beeps (or is it meeps? Nobody knowsOpens in a new tab). When he wasn’t pursuing birds on desert highways, Mr. Coyote took on Bugs BunnyOpens in a new tab, and was quite the silver-tongued con artiste in the process.
Given his propensity for using explosives, however, it seems likely that even if a court case is the movie’s framing device, it’ll be all-out war by the end, which is unlikely to be happy for our protagonist, but who knows? Maybe fate will be kind just this once
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