Every time a megacorporation does something that is so categorically, unequivocally, indisputably, jaw-droppingly, beyond a shadow of a doubt, all-caps “BAD”, one has to wonder: Haven’t the greaseballs in charge heard of a little thing called karma? The intoxicating high of money and power must cloud a person’s mind to a degree that they can no longer sense the connection between physical reality and the laws of nature, sort of like getting really drunk at a Western bar and thinking it’s a good idea to hop on the mechanical bull. It’s a one-track, single-minded way of thinking, eerily reminiscent of, oh, I don’t know, a hungry coyote blindly pursuing a roadrunner. Perhaps the bigwigs at Warner Bros. have more in common with Wile E. Coyote than they realize — or, even likelier, more than they’re willing to admit by drawing a straight line between a film like “Coyote vs. Acme” and the parent company that produced it.
After three years of uncertainty, the latest feature-length spinoff of the “Looney Tunes” franchise has finally, blessedly, reached theaters nationwide. But for most of those three years, it looked as though “Coyote vs. Acme” might never see the light of day. In late 2023, Warner Bros. announced that the film — which sees Wile E. Coyote sue the Acme corporation after he tires of their defective products failing him in his pursuit of the Road Runner — had completed production. (Hooray!) The studio also announced that they were scrapping the finished film for a $30 million tax write-off. (Hoora-, wait . . . boo!)
