COYOTE VS. ACME. …I’m sorry, but you said ACME?

I have questions.

Get ready for the falling anvils, rocket roller skates, and dynamite! Warner Bros. is moving forward with its Wile E. Coyote[*] movie, Coyote vs. Acme. They have hired Dave Green to direct the live-action animated hybrid film, and the studio is now out looking for a writer.

The animated feature follows the “infamous Looney Tunes prairie woof whose objective is obliterating his nemesis Road Runner. Acme is the fictional company that provides Coyote with his many weapons, all of which invariably fail, leaving him squashed flat or burnt to a crisp.”

Starting with whether ‘prairie woof’ is a typo. But… look, if I was Wile E. Coyote* I’d be none too happy at ACME, either. They clearly don’t spend much time on documentation for their various product lines. But if he’s going up against the company in COYOTE VS. ACME , then what does Wile E. Coyote* actually have to work with? Various signs?

Look, I’m not saying no. I’m just saying that I have questions. That’s sall.

Moe Lane

*Super-genius.

7 thoughts on “COYOTE VS. ACME. …I’m sorry, but you said ACME?”

  1. I’m pretty sure there’s not one time line where this turns out to be a good idea.

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    * The Road Runner shorts were great as 8 minute shorts. They’ll collapse under their own weight stretched out to 80 or 90 minutes
    * Live action? Please no.
    * The music in these was a huge part of why they worked. Watch one muted to see what I mean, or watch one of the 60s-era ones that Bill Lava scored. The shoestring budgets weren’t the only reason those late era efforts sucked.

    1. The movie with Brendan Fraiser pulled it off pretty well.
      Of course:
      1) the gags featuring “desert operative” rarely ran longer than a minute, and not even that long uninterrupted.
      2) I don’t think they’re talking about combining live actors with animation.
      3) That’s not a plot. It’s a comic relief subplot to control tension levels in a different movie.
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      I fully expect the effort to be worse than the Grinch and Cat in the Hat atrocities. Those were both at least trying to pad actual stories.

  2. Just to see if there was a typo anywhere I clicked through to Variety from Geektyrant, and my adblocker went insane: Requests blocked on this page: 155 or 54%

    Yikes.

  3. In another story about a movie destined to suck, they’re evidently doing a distaff remake of Fight Club.
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    There are no words.

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