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.
Saw the trailer like four times by now. Oh, I am indeed so pumped that this is seeing the light of day. I don’t know what possessed anyone at WB to give a position of power to David Zaslav, whose sole business model seems to be “burn everything to the ground and loot the ashes”. But this is arguably the single most iconic cartoon duo ever (very good summary here) that’s endured through the ages and even has a series on a streaming platform right now. This isn’t like Batgirl, which never had anything close to universal appeal and where you can always could on the, ahem, usual parties to cheer its destruction. If you had access to a television set between 1960 and the early aughts, I guarantee you’ve seen enough Roadrunner cartoons to be their own movie. Everyone knew, everyone got it, everyone laughed.
This movie looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun, and I’ll catch it on whatever medium I can as soon as I can. I don’t see any way it doesn’t make a gazillion bucks and get rave reviews across the board, so we can look forward to more such projects in the future. I’d like to say that this is the return to form WB so desperately needs, but in the case of Roadrunner and Coyote, they never went away in the first place.
wolfpup - Thank you for giving us that. 
The most genuinely funny thing I’ve read in months. My favorite part is the horizontal folds causing him to expand upward and contract downward alternately and emit an off-key accordionlike wheezing with every step.
Did this ever appear in National Lampoon? Because I swear I remember reading it there back in the day, but 40 year old memories can be tricky.
I brought this up in an earlier thread about the movie. Yes, there was a piece in National Lampoon (maybe a multi-part series). Don’t remember if there’s any connection.
“Cliffhanger Justice” in Nat Lap by Joey Green preceded the New Yorker piece.
The third installment starts on page 18
http://www.luckyfrogfarms.com/cook/NL/1980's/1982/1982_10.pdf