Hot offPeacemaker’s wild success and its recent Season 2 renewal, actorJohn Cenais deepening his relationship with Warner Bros. According toDeadline, Cena will star in aLooney Tuneslive-action, animated hybrid filmCoyote vs. Acme. The film will be directed byDave Greenfrom a screenplay bySamy Burch. The story is set in the popularLooney Tunesuniverse, and it is based onThe New Yorkerhumor article “Coyote vs. Acme” byIan Frazier. The film’s story is as followed:
Wile E. Coyote, who after ACME products fail him one too many times in his dogged pursuit of the Roadrunner, decides to hire a billboard lawyer to sue the ACME Corporation. The case pits Wile E. and his lawyer against the latter’s intimidating former boss (Cena), but a growing friendship between man and cartoon stokes their determination to win.
ThePeacemaker connections do not just stop at Cena as bothChris DefariaandJames Gunnare producing the project. Gunn is producing under his Two Monkeys, A Goat and Another, Dead, Monkey production banner.
While Green does not have many credits to his name, he does have experiences with big franchises as he directed the 2016 sequelTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadowsand Gunn’s track record speaks for itself. Besides theGuardians of the Galaxyfilms,The Suicide Squad, andPeacemaker, Gunn has had a long relationship with WB as he was the writer for both of the early 2000s live actionScooby-Doomovies.
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As for Cena he has more than proven his comedic chops with the underrated 2018 filmBlockersand the previously mentionedThe Suicide SquadandPeacemaker. He is also no stranger to big franchises as, besides his DC work, he also starred in the 2018TransformersfilmBumblebeeand last year’sFast & FurioussequelF9. Cena has already teamed up with a talking shark, befriended an eagle, and taken down a giant starfish so seeing him taking on a classic Looney Tune like Wile E. Coyote is going to be another nonsensical treat.
Looney Tuneshas had many incarnations over its 90 plus year history and this is not the first time this classic animation crew will be in a live-action, animated hybrid movie. This will be the fourth movie in the franchise to take this approach withLooney Tunes: Back in Action,Space Jam, and its sequelSpace Jam: A New Legacyhaving varying degrees of success. Hopefully Cena vs. Wile E. Coyote can be a rivalry that’s as hilarious and outrageous as it sounds!
