The delayed and almost cancelled Acme Vs. Coyote has finally released its trailer.
It looks like it will be fun and I am looking forward to seeing it.
I was amused by the very last lines, “The Acme Corporation is releasing this film for accounting purposes only. We do not condone any of the storylines depicted.” Ironic because Warner Bros didn’t release the film for accounting purposes only.
Yeah, the marketing team has good awareness of the situation surrounding the movie.
They were pretty close with the voice, but they didn’t get Foghorn Leghorn’s speech pattern at all.
I say…I say…I say you’re right, son. They’re about as sharp as a bowling ball.
You’re built too low, son. The fast ones go over your head. I keep pitchin’ ‘em and you keep missin’ 'em. You got to keep your eye on the ball! Eye. Ball. Eyeball. I almost had a gag there; ‘joke’, that is.
Probably a good place to link to the famous Wile E Coyote lawsuit against the ACME Corporation after the coyote got fed up with all their defective merchandise! 
The story originally appeared in the New Yorker but I linked to a copy at the State Bar of Texas as the New Yorker is becoming seriously paywalled these days.
Sample:
In addition to reducing all Mr. Coyote’s careful preparations to naught, the premature detonation of Defendant’s product resulted in the following disfigurements to Mr. Coyote:
- Severe singeing of the hair on the head, neck, and nuzzle.
- Sooty discoloration.
- Fracture of the left ear at the stem, causing the ear to dangle in the aftershock with a creaking noise.
- Full or partial combustion of whiskers, producing kinking, frazzling, and ashy disintegration.
- Radical widening of the eyes, due to brow and lid charring.
We come now to the Acme Spring-Powered Shoes. The remains of a pair of these purchased by Mr. Coyote on June 23rd are Plaintiff’s Exhibit D. Selected fragments have been shipped to the metallurgical laboratories of the University of California at Santa Barbara for analysis, but to date no explanation has been found for this product’s sudden and extreme malfunction.
Of course that story is the basis of this film.
I’m excited. I have got to see this in theaters. The Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner shorts are among my favorites in the Looney Tunes canon.