Coyote vs. ACME gets a trailer

The trailer ACME doesn’t want you to see.

Coyote vs. Acme is an upcoming live-action animated legal comedy film directed by Dave Green and written by Samy Burch from a story by Burch, James Gunn, and Jeremy Slater. The film is based on the 1990 The New Yorker magazine article “Coyote v. Acme” by Ian Frazier. The stars Will Forte, Lana Condor, and John Cena.

You may have heard of the film from when Warner Bros. Discovery initially shelved Coyote vs. Acme in November 2023 to obtain a tax write-off. They later reversed its decision and allowed the filmmakers to seek other distributors following public backlash.

After decades of being blown to bits by bombs, demolished by dynamite, mangled by magnets, battered by boulders, trampled by trains, tricked by tunnels, sprung by springs, steamrolled by steamrollers, maligned by misfires, bedeviled by bungees, rattled by rockets, backstabbed by bat suits, rocked by rocket skates, upended by unicycles, quaked by quake pills, rubberized by rogue bands, and hurled headlong off every cliff in the Southwest, Wile E. Coyote (Genius) finally fights back. Teaming up with billboard accident lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte), he takes on slick corporate counsel Buddy Crane (John Cena) and ACME, Inc., the profit-obsessed conglomerate behind every one of the Coyote’s chaotic catastrophes.

The film hits cinemas on 28th August 2026.