By “Coyote vs. Acme” is seemingly dead once again at Warner Bros. Pictures.
A new report at The Wrap has gone into the saga of the film and indicates Warners has rejected offers from the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Paramount to take the movie.
As reported last year, Warner Bros. Pictures abruptly shelved the completed project in November for an approximate $35 million tax write-off. The studio suffered a major backlash both online and amongst the film community for the decision.
Within days, they changed course with the filmmakers reportedly allowed to shop around the $70 million-budgeted live-action/CG animation hybrid feature to other potential distributors.
According to the article, thoughthe studio received “handsome offers” for the movie, Warners wanted at least $75 million and wouldn’t allow any counteroffers – dubbing it a “take it or leave it” situation.
The report claims Warner Bros. Discovery chief David Zaslav hasn’t seen any version of the film and Warners, rather than announcing it won’t be sold to another studio, may quietly just not talk about it with a source saying: “they would unceremoniously delete it. Never to be seen again.”
Warner Bros. Discovery has a fourth-quarter earnings call scheduled for February 23rd with the filmmakers reportedly believing the film, if it hasn’t been sold, will be “silenced by a movie studio’s balance sheet”.
In the movie, Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote hires an unlucky human attorney to sue the ACME Corporation for defective product injury after so many of their products have backfired on him over the years in his pursuit of the Road Runner.
The project completed principal photography in 2022 in New Mexico and starred Will Forte as the attorney and John Cena as the head of ACME. DC Studios co-head James Gunn produced and “Earth to Echo” helmer Dave Green directed from a script by Jon and Josh Silberman.
Head over to The Wrap for the full report.
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