{"id":411900,"date":"2026-04-22T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411900\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T14:54:10","slug":"will-forte-stars-in-looney-tunes-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/411900\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Forte Stars in Looney Tunes Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Years before Warner Bros. was set to be purchased by <\/a>Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery made many negative headlines in 2023 by shelving several completed projects before release in order to cash in on tax write-offs. Infamously, this happened with \u201cBatgirl,\u201d<\/a> a superhero film<\/a> starring Leslie Grace and JK Simmons. But the other big film that got this treatment was \u201cCoyote vs. Acme<\/a>,\u201d a live-action \u201cLooney Tunes\u201d film in the vein of \u201cSpace Jam\u201d or \u201cBack in Action.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike \u201cBatgirl,\u201d \u201cCoyote vs. Acme\u201d was eventually taken off the shelf, so to speak, when WBD leadership reversed course and allowed the filmmakers to shop the film at other distributors. And after over a year of searching, the movie finally got picked up when Ketchup Entertainment acquired in it<\/a> in 2025.<\/p>\n

\"'Fuze'\"<\/a> \"Jinsei\"<\/a> <\/p>\n

And now, three years after its initial cancellation, we finally have proof that \u201cCoyote vs. Acme\u201d is real and coming out. Ketchup has released the first trailer for the film this Wednesday, ahead of its release later in the Summer.<\/p>\n

The inspiration for \u201cCoyote vs. ACME\u201d comes from a 1990 \u201cNew Yorker\u201d satirical piece by writer Ian Frazier. The story, formatted like a real court report, focuses on a lawsuit from classic \u201cLooney Tunes\u201d character Wile E. Coyote against the Acme Corporation, the manufacturer of the various gadgets and traps the coyote uses in his shorts to try to catch the Roadrunner. In the 49 shorts starring Wile, the Acme products tended to backfire and malfunction in horrible and often humiliating ways. <\/p>\n

The film similarly follows Wile E. Coyote (rendered, like all other \u201cLooney Tunes\u201d characters in the movie, in 2D animation<\/a>) as he sues Acme for their poor product design and false advertising. Representing him is human lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte, in live-action), a billboard attorney who has his own bone to pick with Acme, as the conglomerate is represented by Buddy Crane (John Cena), the boss of Kevin\u2019s former law firm. Lana Condor plays Kevin\u2019s niece, Luis Guzm\u00e1n plays the judge overseeing the trial, and P.J. Byrne, Tone Bell, and Martha Kelly round out the (human, non \u201cLooney Tune\u201d) cast of the film.<\/p>\n

\u201cCoyote vs. Acme\u201d is directed by Dave Green, best known for 2016\u2019s \u201cTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.\u201d The film was written by Samy Burch, who is best known for her Oscar-nominated screenplay for \u201cMay December,\u201d based on a story she developed with James Gunn and Jeremy Slater. <\/p>\n

\u201cCoyote vs. Acme\u201d races to theaters August 28. Watch the trailer below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Years before Warner Bros. was set to be purchased by Paramount, Warner Bros. Discovery made many negative headlines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":411901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3621,124833,93,1043,61,60,270,12541],"class_list":["post-411900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-coyote-vs-acme","tag-entertainment","tag-film","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}