Coyote vs. Acme, a live-action/animation hybrid movie in the Looney Tunes universe starring John Cena, has met the same fate as Batgirl. The movie, which cost $72 million and completed filming last year, has been shelved by Warner Bros. and will no longer be released, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Frustrated that every product he orders from the Acme Corporation backfires on him in his vendetta against the Road Runner, the movie was set to see Wile E. Coyote take Acme to court with a down-on-his-luck human attorney (Will Forte) taking on the case. When his lawyer discovers his intimidating former boss (Cena's character) is now Acme's CEO, he's even more determined to win the case. Described as part courtroom drama and part family comedy, the script (penned by Samy Burch, who worked on the story with Jeremy Slater and DC Studios CEO James Gunn) was based on the 1990 New Yorker humor article 'Coyote v. Acme' by Ian Frazier.
