Since Warner Bros. became Warner Bros. Discovery in 2022, the entertainment conglomerate has shocked many with its decisions to shelve movies that were completely filmed to make them tax write offs.
After Batgirl and the second Scoob! movie were the first to go , the company also decided to shelve Coyote Vs. Acme back in November. John Cena , one of its stars, has now shared his thoughts on the decision.
Coyote Vs. Acme had a fun premise. The live-action Looney Tunes movie involves Wile E.
Coyote deciding to get a lawsuit together to sue the Acme Corporation after every product he’s used from the company has famously backfired on him. Along with Cena, the movie starred Will Forte , Lana Condor and longtime Looney Tunes voice actor Eric Bauza doing several characters. Check out Cena’s thoughts on the decision: There’s a lot there.
And everyone’s perspective is different. We don’t own the film. That’s the tough part about this business, you do have a sense of ownership because you invest heart and soul.
And [director] Dave Green and everybody involved, we made what we thought was a good movie. After Warner Bros. initially made the decision, the studio was met with some major backlash.
It doesn’t help that one writer called the movie “terrific,” saying there’s “been nothing like it since Who Framed Roger Rabbit ?” Coyote vs. Acme was based on a story by James Gunn (you know the guy who did the Guardians of the Galaxy movies) along with Jeremy Slater and S.