Warner Bros.' immortalLooney Tunesfranchise is finally returning to theaters this week withThe Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, the first time since 2003’sLooney Tunes: Back in Action. Sufferin' succotash, I plumb forgot 2021’sSpace Jam: A New Legacy. But then, haven’t we all? Or shouldn’t we? The movie, thefirst ever fully animated feature-lengthLooney Tunesfilm, no less, features beloved characters Daffy Duck, Porky Pig (both voiced byEric Bauza), and Petunia Pig (Candi Milo) looking to save Earth from the devious schemes ofPeter MacNicol’s delightfully over-the-top alien known only as The Invader.
Don’t get me wrong, I flat-out loveLooney Tunesand happily sat in the theater basking in the lunacy that only the Warner Bros. icons can provide. And given itsimpressive Rotten Tomatoes score, almost everyone seems to enjoy it very much (including our very ownRoss Bonaime, whogave the film a solid 8 out of 10). But what I really want is to see the fully completed, yet currently unreleased,Looney TunesfeatureCoyote vs. Acmereleased. Theaters, Max, whatever.And the only way that has the slightest chance of happening is by supportingThe Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie.
‘Coyote vs. Acme’ Suffered the Same Fate as ‘Batgirl’ and ‘Scoob!: Holiday Haunt'
What we know for sure aboutCoyote vs. Acmeis that it is based on a1990 humor piece inThe New YorkerbyIan Frazier,that it’s completed, and that itwould have taken place in a world where humans and cartoons live together, à laWho Framed Roger Rabbit. Beyond that, our only other knowledge about the film itself is from an anonymous source who, reportedly,leaked the entire plot.
According to that, Acme is a conglomerate that has its hands on some of the biggest products worldwide.Wile E. Coyote has used such products, and if you know your Road Runner cartoons, not very successfully. So he hires lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte) to take Acme to court for every single Acme product that has failed in his pursuit of the Road Runner. But they’ll be in tough against attorney Buddy Crane (John Cena) and Acme’s products department head Foghorn Leghorn.
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Those that had seen the film raved about it, but it didn’t stop Warner Bros. CEO David Zaslav from shelving it as a tax write-down, the same approach he took with similarly completed filmsBatgirlandScoob!: Holiday Haunt. Worse, Zaslavhasn’t evenseenthe film, which further infuriated fans already left fuming by the decision (Will Forte candidlycalled the decision a few expletives). A half-hearted attempt at allowing directorDave Greento shop it around was the film’s last shot, butplacing conditional take-it-or-leave-it offers of $75 to $80 million USD for respective buyers killed any possibilities of the endeavor succeeding.
There’s a Slight Hope ‘The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie’ Can Save ‘Coyote vs. Acme'
So canCoyote vs. Acmebe saved byThe Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie?One has to believe that there’s a slight hope it could happen. It’s already proved a critical success, and if what we’ve heard is true, thenCoyote vs. Acmeis one as well, so it would be logical for Warner Bros. to strike while the iron is hot. Of course, a “logical” Warner Bros. would have released it in the first place, but still. But nothing speaks louder than money, somethingEric Bauza suggests is the key, saying,“If this movie,The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie—opening March 14th, in theaters everywhere—gets a lot of money, then we might seeCoyote Vs. Acme.”
What doesn’t help is the low-key promotion that has heraldedThe Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie’s theatrical release. I can count on one hand—make that no hands—the number of ads for the film on TV or media, and I honestly only knew it was coming out thanks to trusty ol' Collider.com.That fact alone may speak volumes about Warner Bros.' intent. But as a lifelong fan of the Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoons, I am not above begging you, faithful reader, to go see Daffy and Porky on the big screen. To phrase a certain princess from a galaxy far, far away,“You are our only hope.”
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