If Coyote vs. Acme isn’t a hit this summer, it won’t be for lack of buzz. The live-action/animated Looney Tunes film had people talking before anyone had seen a single frame of it. Originally set up at Warner Bros., it became another one of their infamous tax write-off casualties, just like Batgirl around the same time. Last year, Ketchup Entertainment swooped in and rescued it from limbo, and now today we have the first official trailer.
Starring Will Forte, Lana Condor, and John Cena, with Dave Green (Earth to Echo) directing, Coyote vs. Acme has a really fun premise that fans of the classic cartoons should love. It finds Wile E. Coyote finally getting fed up with the Acme Corporation for years of failed gadgets in his pursuit of the Road Runner, so he hires a lawyer to sue the company.
Somehow, I imagine Wile E. will still find a way to fall off a cliff, or get blasted into the side of a mountain by rocket skates.
Coyote vs. Acme finally hits theaters on August 28th.
