Wile E. Coyote Movie being developed by Warner Bros.

[TigerClaw]

Warner Bros is developing a Live Action / Animated Movie on Wile E. Coyote titled Coyote vs. Acme. The movie is gonna be directed by Dave Green, Who was the Director for TMNT: Out Of The Shadows.
https://variety.com/2019/film/news/l...os-1203440879/

[turtle1237]

So I guess Roadrunner is going to make a cameo maybe?

[ZariusTwo]

The movie is titled Coyote vs ACME, and stars John Cena

https://deadline.com/2022/02/john-ce...me-1234935112/

[The Deadman]

WB has killed the movie, like they did Batgirl
https://www.ign.com/articles/warner-...nished-filming

[drgon78]

They should have kept this one and Scoob 2 and just shelve all the DC movies since they are rebooting them anyway.

[oldmanwinters]

I wish the international hacker/cyber-terrorists would focus on breaking and leaking these “vaulted” films to the public!

[neatoman]

I wish this tax write off thing came with a clause that automatically committed the write offs to the public domain.

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by neatoman

I wish this tax write off thing came with a clause that automatically commuted the write offs to the public domain.

Oh, yeah, then it could even be considered something like charity work to the public!

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by oldmanwinters

Oh, yeah, then it could even be considered something like charity work to the public!

Right, if you're not going to distribute it yourself and can't do so for profit, what's the point of just keeping it in a vault? At least something like Infinity Train got distributed before they wrote it off, meaning it is out there in the public (even it's technically illegal to make more copies of it), this movie just won't see the light of day unless it's leaked. Making these things public domain would be for the best because:

1. Sharing copies freely won't be considered piracy and you could even keep an open repository of relatively recent works.
2. Anyone who wants to can make derivatives (provided you make sure it's appropriate in relation to other works of course).
3. The original distributor could still make money off these things, they just wouldn't be able to stop anyone else from doing so, which would probably still be incentive to keep the practice to a minimum.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Right, if you're not going to distribute it yourself and can't do so for profit, what's the point of just keeping it in a vault?

Because the tax write-off can almost nullify the money already thrown into it so far.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Because the tax write-off can almost nullify the money already thrown into it so far.

Yes but once you have your money back that way, does it not make sense to just let the public have the thing for free?

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Yes but once you have your money back that way, does it not make sense to just let the public have the thing for free?

The problem is, If they were to release it, They would have to pay the royalties.

[Xav]

The test scores were supposed very positive so I have no idea why this was shelved.

[Wildcat]

I thought this was a really cool and clever idea. I was looking forward to this.

I personally believe it will get released one day. Hard to believe they’d never release a finished movie (Batgirl too, was not particularly waiting for that but I’d watch it). This just needed the characters put in.

[Hamato Yoshi]

"what's the point of just keeping it in a vault?"

tell that to Bruce Lee footage collectors.....Im sure his HK TV appearances are out there but its all about $$$

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by TigerClaw

The problem is, If they were to release it, They would have to pay the royalties.

Yeah, I guess that makes sense from a financial (though not ethical) standpoint, but it's still sad to just have these things never get released at all.

[The Deadman]

Originally Posted by Wildcat

I thought this was a really cool and clever idea. I was looking forward to this.

I personally believe it will get released one day. Hard to believe they’d never release a finished movie (Batgirl too, was not particularly waiting for that but I’d watch it). This just needed the characters put in.

It wont get released. The only way itll see the light of day is if someone gets into the files before everything is erased.

[ZariusTwo]

This site is paywalled, but the article claims the film might have a second chance with a new distributor

https://puck.news/warners-reverses-c...vs-acme-fight/

[ZariusTwo]

Warner will be screening the film to interested distributors

https://deadline.com/2023/11/coyote-...on-1235601190/

[oldmanwinters]

IGN tossed up an article on the distributor story too:
https://www.ign.com/articles/warner-...ZJ-9WQHjLUKaVE