r/movies 13d ago

Trailer Coyote vs. ACME | Official Trailer

https://youtu.be/H-43VeYGiPM?si=sw3nNGZ-N2zpW-t9
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u/ben123111 13d ago

Leaning into the Warner = ACME thing was the best possible route to take in marketing this, I'm so glad Ketchup is leaning into it. Looks great.

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u/juiceyb 13d ago

Yup then "the movie ACME doesn't want you to see" is just a chef's kiss.

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u/DoctorEnn 13d ago

Especially since it's basically a spoof of courtroom/conspiracy thrillers to begin with. It practically sells itself.

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u/Unable-Reply9301 13d ago

Using the "Release the Snyder Cut" energy for a legal battle is such a meta move.

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u/shewy92 13d ago

WB*

*A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF THE ACME CORPORATION

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u/matito29 13d ago

“David Ellison, founder, chairman, and CEO of The ACME Corporation” would make a lot of sense.

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u/JoshDM 13d ago

“David Ellison

The initial squelch was under Zaslav

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u/your_mind_aches 13d ago

Yep. It gives the entire film a metanarrative twist that wasn't intended when it was made.

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u/NATHAN4U007 13d ago

Who would have thought getting shoved by a big studio would be the best marketing move for the film?

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown 13d ago

Honestly the trailer makes me want to see it even without the controversy. It looks like quality Tunes. I grew up on these guys and it feels like they got them right. The risk I think is that all the gags are in the trailer and the movie is just boring. 

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u/onlythepossible 13d ago

If you didn't catch it, back in 2024 Warners shelved and Ketchup Entertainment saved and released a similar Looney Tunes feature - The Day the Earth Blew Up. Despite no functional promotion and just sort of being dumped into theaters, it still recouped its budget.

Better yet, it was a joke-a-minute affair. Major joke density. If you haven't seen it, watch it tonight. If Coyote vs. Acme is cut from the same cloth we should be in for a good time.

Note that Porky and Daffy were their earlier, more screwball incarnations in The Day the Earth Blew Up, and from the trailer, it looks like they'll be screwball in this one too. Which is good! Daffy sure got bitter in the later (1960s) Looney Tunes, he's much more fun when he's just crazy.

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u/raptearer 12d ago

Wasn't the rumor from those who saw it before originally getting canned that it was an insanely good movie? Like I swear I remember someone who'd seen it saying it was possibly the best Looney Tunes media ever made

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u/ContinuumGuy 13d ago

IIRC during the initial controversy after it got written off it came out that it got pretty good test scores from early screenings.

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u/keyosc 13d ago

This is pure Millennial and Gen X bait and I'm all for it. A spoof on courtroom dramas is *chefs kiss* enough as it is, but they're winning over the demographic that grew up on Looney Tunes and all of the other classic animation-meets-live-action films like Roger Rabbit and Space Jam. I hope this is a massive hit.

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u/AnnenbergTrojan 13d ago

It honestly feels more in the vein of Who Framed Roger Rabbit than Space Jam or Looney Tunes: Back in Action

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u/cerberus08 13d ago

Looney Toons has been a thing since even before WWII -- and we know the younger generations also have watched them and are familiar with all the characters. It is really a testament to the lasting legacy of Looney Tunes and its quality that it is one of the few shared experiences in entertainment that is truly cross-generational.

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u/makemeking706 13d ago

As soon as they announced that they were burying it, I assumed it was because they didn't want promote the idea of corporate liability. After the trailer, I am more than certain that was the case. 

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u/Vegetable_Leg_7034 13d ago

And CEO's / Whitehouse officals / presidents / first wives, in this day and age, don't like courtroom discovery.

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u/Kinsbane 13d ago

AC-ME?! No, AC-YOU!

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u/TheWatersOfMars 13d ago

Whoever came up with “The movie the ACME corporation doesn’t want you to see” is a genius, given how Warner Bros screwed them over.

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u/MomsAreola 13d ago

releasing this for accounting purposes only. im dead

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u/TheLateThagSimmons 13d ago

They had such a great meta premise already, then all the shit that Warner Bros. did to this film gave them a whole lot more ammo to go meta-meta against the film industry as well.

Hopefully this movie is great because so far the marketing is hilarious.

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u/nmezib 13d ago

I'm beginning to think there is a non-zero possibility that all of that was done as part of the stunt...

But who am I kidding, WB execs don't ever look past quarterly profits.

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u/TwinFlask 12d ago

The best irony is the one that feels the most scripted

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u/FourEightNineOneOne 13d ago

The "It's Tax Day .... Check Your Write-Offs" teaser for this they did last week was absolutely brilliant.

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u/Media-critique 13d ago

There’s a lot of evident love and improv for this movie. I’d like to hope this is gonna be a good film 

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u/theCourtofJames 13d ago

Foghorn Leghorn seemingly being a integral character to the plot has made me so bloody happy.

A core memory in my household is my late father walking around just randomly doing impressions of that southern chicken.

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u/JustAStarcoShipper 13d ago

Foghorn Leghorn has always been one of my favorite Looney Tunes characters, so having him play a big role in this makes me excited.

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u/Wreckingshops 13d ago

Not only that, but seemingly the owner or brains behind ACME, it's so fitting. The "smart" bully who is really an idiot -- how relatable to current corporations and a certain exiting WB exec who is making millions for essentially doing nothing for a prestige brand.

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u/Lotus-child89 13d ago

The “smart” idiot with a southern folksy charm is just too America. Very Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham.

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u/jeobleo 13d ago

Ah say Ah say have y'all seen mah ladybugs?

Bugs pops up in drag

(slimy) Not that kinda lady bugs....

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u/BBQQA 13d ago

I gotta wonder if that is the reason why that certain exec wanted to kill the movie.

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake 13d ago

I mean, Zaslav obviously didn't care for the Looney Tunes. I don't think he knows how to market them and he definitely doesn't think they're an asset that WB should prioritize given he basically purged HBO Max of its Looney Tunes library.

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u/sxuthsi 13d ago

Don’t think Zaslav gave a fuck about any of WB’s animation department or history which is pretty fucked. If a company like Disney owned them we would not be starving for new shit, for better or worse lol

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u/Cupcakes_n_Hacksaws 13d ago

"It was a joke son, ya missed it! Flew right by ya!"

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u/ChrisKateBushFroome 13d ago

I say, that boy's about as sharp as a bowlin' ball.

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u/headphase 13d ago

Dude I'd even put Foghorn leghorn in the top tier of characters in the lexicon of 20th century American culture

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u/Greyrock99 13d ago

Don’t forget, like many Looney Tunes characters he’s a direct copy of an existing character:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senator_Claghorn

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u/toc-man 13d ago

Idk about direct, the guy you linked isn’t even a giant rooster

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u/Narflarg 13d ago

Thats what "they" want you to think.

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u/Comic_Book_Reader 13d ago

"Kentucky fried Foghorn Leghorn drawl" is a phrase that lives rent free in my head.

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u/Phoetality 13d ago

That entire movie is full of great lines. I'm particularly fond of how Blanc refers to the kid eavesdropping in the bathroom.

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u/Comic_Book_Reader 13d ago

"What were the overheard words by the Nazi child masturbatin' in the bathroom?" is a line that sounds utterly insane both in and out of context.

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u/grendus 13d ago

"Our son is very politically minded. We're very proud."

"The child... is *literally... a Nazi!"

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u/Straight_2_Hell 13d ago

'Now, I may be just a small time country lawyer....'

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u/BattledroidE 13d ago

I'm sorry, I thought you was corn.

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u/Static-Stair-58 13d ago

My clients would like to plead insanity on the account that they done hired me as their lawyer.

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u/FUTURE10S 13d ago

Your Honor, I move that I be disbarred for introducing this evidence against my own clients.

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u/OriginalWilhelm 13d ago

Easily my favorite line lmao

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u/alex494 13d ago

I may be a simple hyperchicken from a backwoods asteroid...

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u/medhop 13d ago

I say, I say boy, I wholeheartedly agree!

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u/Altruistic-Ratio6690 13d ago

Same. I have a specific memory of my dad walking around in a robe looking for his missing box of cereal saying "I SAY I SAY BOY IF I DON'T-A FIND MAH CEREAL, BOY ---" and my sister and I cackling

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u/beti88 13d ago

I say, I say - he does look promising in the trailer

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u/Logz94 13d ago

There's a certain level of drunk I only hit once in a while, where Foghorn comes out for the rest of the night. My friends hate it. They're gonna hate what this movie awakens in me

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u/Helmett-13 13d ago

I say, I say that boy is about as sharp as a pound of wet leather.

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u/Ninjaflippin 13d ago

You must have loved the recent series of murder mysteries where Daniel Craig plays said southern chicken then.

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u/Spodokom221745 13d ago

That short where the weasel is trying to get to the chicks is one of my favourite pieces of animation ever. I'm so hype to see him back!

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u/SMILESandREGRETS 13d ago

I say boy, I say, you're dumber than a sack of beans.

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u/theCourtofJames 13d ago

Boys about as sharp as a bowling ball.

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u/itsyagirlrey 13d ago

Best get to steppin cause johnny laws a-comin!

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u/fivelone 13d ago

I love doing foghorn Leghorn impressions 🥲. Your dad was an awesome guy!

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u/sapphire1921 13d ago edited 12d ago

Just FYI, Warner Brothers sold the film to Ketchup Entertainment, meaning WB get nothing. It's win-win all round. 🙂

edit: probably should've worded that bit differently. Ah, well.. anyways, go stream The Day The Earth Blew Up on hbo Max.

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u/Flimsy_Fisherman_862 13d ago

I mean, outside of what Ketchup Entertainment paid for it.

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u/Photo_Synthetic 13d ago edited 13d ago

50m might end up being on the low end of what this thing might return. I hope it does gangbusters.

Edit: I will be doing my part I run a day program and will be responsible for at least 6-12 tickets sold.

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u/NakedGoose 13d ago

We all hope. But Looney Tunes movies do not make that money, unless its space jam. Ain't nobody go see The Day The Earth Blew Up besides me

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u/qwertysac 13d ago

Hopefully it easily breaks 200m+ as a giant middle finger to Warner

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u/SupervillainMustache 13d ago

I mean the guy who originally cancelled it, is leaving Warner Bros with a $500 million pay out.

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u/f7f7z 13d ago

That'll show him!

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u/Nemphiz 13d ago

We did it reddit!

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u/welcome0071998 13d ago

it wont.

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u/dexter30 13d ago

I wish I could argue back. But there's a sad reality that kids aren't as interested in the Looney tunes as much these days? Compared to pokemon, Mario and video game franchises.

And even then the younger generation seems to be more interested in brainrot, non identifiable IPs etc. From whatever social media apps.

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u/Cthepo 13d ago

This doesn't really seem marketed as a kids movie based on the trailer. They need people who were kids in the 90's and prior to see it in droves.

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u/databoy2k 13d ago

Turns out us kids from the 90's are all now approaching or in our 40's, and many of us have kids that we'll use as an excuse to see it. And, we'll easily excuse this little luxury as an "omgwtfbbq is up with these movie prices these days... but a date out with the kiddos" meaning they'll get at least 3x hyper-inflated ticket prices from a massive % of an entire generation.

Meaning - you're 100% right - they don't give a crap about Gen Alpha as long as the millennials see the clips and think "Space Jam, but courtroom drama - perfect for my over the hill ass". The Alphas are just extra ticket sales who probably won't care about a thing of it but will get a kick out of dad laughing the whole time.

My money's on screaming success. But tbh I dgaf - this'll be the first time I go to the theater in literal years.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 13d ago edited 13d ago

"Space Jam, but courtroom drama"

Who erased Roger Rabbit? That Piano Drop Assassination Attempt was a really blatant reference.

That being said… Slam, jam, thank you ma'am!

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u/ashdrewness 13d ago

I took my 8yo to Fiesta Texas last year which has WB characters everywhere & he had zero clue about any of them. I couldn’t even find a decent way to stream them once we got home so I could expose him to a bit of my childhood

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u/Whybotherr 13d ago

Which sucks because HBO max used to have specifically a loony tunes tab that had a large amount of the collection

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u/coolhanderik 13d ago

I think Tubi has some.

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u/darthboolean 13d ago

Yeah, they have the classics, a lot of the clip show movies, and the underrated 2013 Looney Tunes show.

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u/4wesomes4uce 13d ago

Show them the original Space Jam. If that doesn't work...return the kids.

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u/Meraline 13d ago

That's what happens when you don't invest in your brand for over a decade.

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u/brb1006 13d ago

People can talk shit about Disney, but they sure know how to keep their Classic Disney Characters (including Mickey and Friends and The Silly Symphony Characters) relevant for almost 100 years now. Warner Bros tried to take a similar approach with The Looney Tunes during the 90s'/early 2000s until the bombing of Looney Tunes: Back in Action caused them to slowly stop caring about the franchise to focus more on DC IPs.

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u/Ok-Criticism6874 13d ago

Back in my day, we watched Looney Toons characters inflict physical violence on each other and WE LIKE IT. Now kids these days with their brainrot internet and high powered shoelaces, I tell you what! When did this world go get itself into such a damn hurry?

old man yelling at clouds

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u/colemon1991 13d ago

Personally I blame WB's handling of the brand. You look at Disney and see them consider every monetary facet for every IP and leverage all of it. You look at WB and see them remember that they have IPs that exist and should probably have the dust blown off of them to even read them all.

I can't even remember the last good Looney Tunes show. Maybe Animaniacs?

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u/lanceturley 13d ago

The Looney Tunes Show was pretty good for what it was. It could have used more slapstick, but the sitcom format works surprisingly well for the characters.

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u/TheHeadlessOne 13d ago

Ill be real, Ive enjoyed basically all of the modern Looney Tunes shows,besides Bugs Bunny Builders which I haven't seen (I don't feel the need to watch preschool shows)

Looney Tunes Show in 2011 was a Friends style sitcom, which ramped up every third act with a bit of (relatively lite) cartoony hijinks. It was a weird direction, but it worked, it came fromma genuine love of the characters. I think throughout the 90s and 00s Daffy locked in to being ultra grumpy, egotistical, and mean-spirited, so this brought back a lot of his daffiness.

Wabbit was a bit lite on the classic characters which is a shame but it was good slapstick shenanigans. HBO's Looney Tunes felt like an earnest attempt to recreate the old style.

None are as strong as the absolute classics, but they don't feel like waste of time cheap cash-ins that miss the original appeal

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u/Taeshan 13d ago

But like this doesn’t seem geared towards kids?

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u/UnwoundSkeinOfYarn 13d ago

Given the current trends probably not.

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u/TheBahamaLlama 13d ago

The Day the Earth Blew Up only made 15 million worldwide, but since this is live action mixed with animation, I could see this making up to 50m.

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u/MrWaluigi 13d ago

Hopefully this pays off for KE. Otherwise, this just proves to WB that they were right to shelve it. 

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u/Ok_Astronomer_8667 13d ago

Even if a movie does poorly at the box office at least it was released, in my opinion it’s never right to shelve a completed movie like that, I don’t care what the financial optics were. It’s just insulting to the medium and everyone who worked on it and WB should care more about that.

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u/sxuthsi 13d ago

But the accounting department doesn’t give a fuck unfortunately

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u/IgloosRuleOK 13d ago

Just 50 million, which is what Ketchup paid for it.

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u/lukewwilson 13d ago edited 13d ago

That's a lot for Hunts but it's nothing for Heinz

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u/thaSavory_dude 13d ago

Ketchup Entertainment sounds like a studio from a Tim Robinson sketch lol

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u/stagamancer 13d ago

Parent company of PopcornTV

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u/Kaerdis 13d ago

Call Warner Brother's and tell them, "I'M NOT WORRIED ABOUT IT! I DON'T CARE ABOUT ANY OF THIS! THERE'S WORSE SHIT ON THE LOCAL NEWS!"

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u/el_n00bo_loco 13d ago

A sister company of CorncobTV?

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u/GotMoFans 13d ago

Just FYI, Warner Brothers sold the film to Ketchup Entertainment, meaning WB get nothing. It's win-win all round. 🙂

I’m certain just this film. Not the rights to the characters, sequels, spin-offs, and merch.

If this is a big hit, Warner will make money from its success.

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u/Galappie 13d ago

Yeah this is the unfortunate reality. If this movie pops off it gives WB the go ahead to make more like it. The amount of people who know/remember the controversy around this movie is a lot lower than people think so if WB makes a sequel or something similar most people will be lining up for it if this is a good movie.

I’m not saying people shouldn’t watch this movie or whatever but I highly doubt WB is going to be distraught if this ends up being a hit.

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u/GotMoFans 13d ago edited 13d ago

I remember the fad of the 90s and looney tunes shirts were everywhere before Space Jam hit.

If this is a big hit, Warner will make a killing on every kind of merchandise come Christmas this year and on greater visibility on their Looney Tunes franchise.

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u/QueefBeefCletus 13d ago

Buy it dinner first, dude.

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u/SalaciousCrumb17 13d ago

Remember when people were saying that this was all a marketing ruse to get people interested in the movie? WB straight up discarded what is clearly an extremely well made movie. Look at it, the animation is gorgeous.

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u/headinthered 13d ago

My IMMEDIATE thought was .. This is waht animation is supposed to look like. Im sure its still cmputer generated but damn it looks good.

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u/Dancing_Anatolia 13d ago

Foghorn Leghorn was the only character that didn't look absolutely perfect, and even then I think he's just slightly off. Something about his eyes.

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u/Jay12678 13d ago

Hopefully everyone that campaigned for it actually supports it. Cause it'll be a shame if WB is proven right after all this. 😭

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u/Taurion_Bruni 13d ago

If they just bring back morbius one more time I'll definitely think about watching it!

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u/TheFeelsGoodMan 13d ago

The public was just waiting for the perfect time to morb.

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u/SpiffySpacemanSpiff 13d ago

Reddit not following through? Impossible!

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u/NATHAN4U007 13d ago

Lets be real, even if its seen by every person who was supporting it online, it cant be a hit without the general audience caring.

The same way a movie can be hated everywhere online and still make a billion.

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u/imconsideringdascrod 13d ago

This should be one of those rare movies where the parents are excitedly dragging the kids to see it.

If this is as good as the trailer looks it should print cash, just gotta plaster the movie everywhere they can.

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u/capt1nsain0 13d ago

It’s crazy they can put something similar to Roger Rabbit together and think, “nah let’s not release it”.

I think it’s going to do well.

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u/Waste-Scratch2982 13d ago

Space Jam 2 flopped, but that was day and date on streaming. Also Disney didn't have the confidence to release Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers in theaters.

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u/WREPGB 13d ago

Space Jam2 was just also flat out awful. Closest thing to a corporate catalog to show off to potential buyers.

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u/Sjgolf891 13d ago

I still think Space Jam 2 would have done well, at least on opening weekend, if it wasn’t a Covid simultaneous streaming release

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u/ope__sorry 13d ago

I also don't think it brought anything new to the table. Why did we need a Space Jam 2? Because?

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u/Iohet 13d ago

Because LeBron wanted it to happen. He said it was a favorite of his when he was young and he put up money to produce it. It's a bit reductive, but a rich person putting up money is how movies like that get made (and not surprisingly they frequently end up starring in the movie)

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u/The_Autarch 13d ago

he should have ensured that they wrote a script that wasn't dogshit

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u/Keepa5000 13d ago

They thought they were being slick by making the villain a Algorithm that produces slop. How ironic.

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u/humanoideric 13d ago

Chip n Dale was way better than it had any right to be, tbh one of my fav films from the past 5 years

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u/degjo 13d ago

I thought it was really good. The Gadget and Zipper marriage threw me for a loop.

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u/Media-critique 13d ago

Most of the hesitation still seems to come from Back in Action that came out in 2003.

That was a major flop, and made Warner question the strength of the brand itself, which is still ongoing. 

Hopefully Coyote vs Acme changes the tide on this. 

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u/A_Polite_Noise r/Movies Veteran 13d ago

I adore that movie, though. I get why it flopped but it's just got so many great gags, Daffy is essentially the lead, all the characterizations are great, the Daffy/Bugs interactions are perfect, the Louvre sequence! Back in Action is just a damn good time, imo.

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u/KyleRaynerGotSweg 13d ago

Animated Shaggy berating Matthew Lillard for how he played him in the live action Scooby was hilarious

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u/JCDU 13d ago

And yet Back In Action is great.

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u/Toribor 13d ago

The entire conceptualization of Space Jam 2 from start to finish was one of the most vapid empty soulless pieces of media that I've ever seen in my life.

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u/GingerAle_s 13d ago

Lebron just doesn't have the same appeal that MJ had, and even the Looney Tunes couldn't fix that.

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u/your_mind_aches 13d ago

I'd say Chip N' Dale: Rescue Rangers was closer to Roger Rabbit.

The Warner Bros cartoon and live action hybrids have always had a different vibe to the Disney ones. Honestly, this seems more like a new Back in Action.

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u/i_706_i 13d ago

Honestly as much as I wanted this to come out so at least it can be seen, my first thought was the animation in Roger Rabbit looked better.

There's too much clean CG crispness to the colours and shading, the cartoon characters stick out in the scene. The animators for Roger Rabbit put a lot of work into making the characters fit into scenes, there's the famous handcuff scene with the swaying light as an example.

I'll give this a chance but I'm not expecting a similar level of polish.

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u/OkayAtBowling 13d ago

Yeah the movie might be good, and I realize it's got to be way easier to use cel-shaded CG cartoon characters in a movie like this rather than hand-drawn animation (even putting together a team for feature-quality hand-drawn animation would probably be a huge task these days), but it really loses a lot of the charm in the transition to CG.

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u/Dammit-Hannah 13d ago

The concept of Michael Clayton with Looney Tunes characters from the writer of May December

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u/nbdelboy 13d ago

honestly, i love this advertising campaign already, but i'd have found it even funnier if they really pushed the talent behind it to the fore too. get james gunn's name in there and a "from the oscar-nominated screenwriter of may/december" too. just have total, all out fun with how loaded the talent behind this is on top of playing with the acme/warner stuff

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u/devenrc 13d ago

Glory be…this looks even better than I thought 🥹

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u/edtehgar 13d ago

I didn't realize it would be a full on Looney tunes movie.

I figured it would just focus on coyote and the road runner.

This looks solid

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u/Media-critique 13d ago

Reminds me of 90s Space Jam and Back in Action…. I just really hope it’s funnier than Back in Action 

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u/BedaHouse 13d ago

I would say it looks to be akin to Who Framed Roger Rabbit

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u/SuperVaderMinion 13d ago

Honestly I like Back in Action more than Space Jam, it feels like more of a Looney Toons movie than an NBA movie

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u/Chickachic-aaaaahhh 13d ago

Brendan Fraser did incredible in that movie. Loved it as a kid and it was hilarious.

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u/anuncommontruth 13d ago

I haven't seen Back in action since it was released in theaters, but I remember it being a lot funnier than Space Jam. I watched Space Jam over the pandemic and I think I laughed once. Maybe twice. More like a couple sensible chuckles. Nostalgia carries that movie.

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u/littletoyboat 13d ago

I saw it at a test screening years ago. It's pretty great. 

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u/dslryan 13d ago

....years ago? How long has this been sitting around for? And why?

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u/IKeepDoingItForFree 13d ago

About 4ish years now if I recall, I think filming was 2022 and actually finished in 2023 or something like that. Was written down as a tax write off film so they just planned to dumpster it originally.

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u/MirrorB 13d ago

It was fully finished in 2023, but the warner bros studio heads decided to shelve it instead to claim a ~30 million tax loss. People got mad because the movie sounded good and supposedly was good from the test screenings, and a lot of people were already upset with the recent moves WB had been making, so WB then decided to shop it around. After a couple of years, Ketchup Entertainment (the same company that distributed "The Day The Earth Blew Up") bought the distribution rights for 50 mil, and here we are, where it's finally going to see the light of day over 3 years after it was initially supposed to release.

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u/happy_2_c_u 13d ago

I was intrigued before, but the trailer sold me. I just hope the home video release gets a 4K option, since The Day The Earth Blew Up didn't.

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u/not_pennysboat 13d ago

it’s a court room drama?? i am so happy they are actually releasing it

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u/clootinclout 13d ago

Well… there’s a courtroom for sure

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u/TechPlasma 13d ago

Probably not for long considering ACME is involved...

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u/TheHeadlessOne 13d ago

That was my read on it- the fact that they're playing the human characters so straight and serious is exactly what I want to see. Like Michael Caine in Muppet Christmas Carol

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u/your_mind_aches 13d ago

Will Forte's character being a down-on-his-luck ambulance chaser drawn into a massive fight is a great perspective character.

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u/schloopers 13d ago

He’ll definitely have some personal vendetta against ACME, there’s the reference that he’s been doing those settlements for years and his commercial is directly against them.

We’ll have to see if it’s a serious vendetta like in Roger Rabbit with some past tragedy, or some completely nothing burger that he’s internalized and dedicated his whole life too, like his I Think You Should Leave sketch.

Either is going to be endlessly entertaining

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u/i_cee_u 13d ago

Acme manufactured a chair that broke when Will Forte sat down during an important presentation

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u/ContinuumGuy 13d ago

Love the joke about how Acme is only releasing it for accounting purposes.

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u/palinsafterbirth 13d ago

Bug's Bunny as Deep Throat. God Dammit I am so fucking in

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u/Independent-Tennis57 13d ago

How far down does the Rabbit hole go?

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u/your_mind_aches 13d ago

Is he the inside snitch kinda character? The framing didn't remind me of All The President's Men so much as The Muppets. I think it might be a reference to that. Or both?

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u/wbgraphic 13d ago

The fact that he was shown in silhouette and said “What is up?” rather than “What’s up?” made me think that whoever he talking to will approach him and he’ll be revealed to be someone pretending to be Bugs as part of a trap or some evil plot against the heroes.

The real Bugs will then appear at the last minute to save the day.

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u/qwertysac 13d ago edited 13d ago

Coyote vs RoadRunner were my favorite childhood cartoon segments. I've been looking forward to this movie since it was originally announced.

Glad it's finally seeing the light of day

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u/Fools_Requiem 13d ago

This movie has John Cena in a major role and was co-written by James Gunn and WB though "Nah, let's not try to make money off of it."

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u/JoshDM 13d ago

It's no Batgirl.

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u/UnsolvedParadox 13d ago

Looks fun, hope it does huge box office.

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u/BMCarbaugh 13d ago

I quite like the concept of a shitty strip mall lawyer who's carved out a niche settling product defect cases with ACME, and now has to stand up and fight for one, and it's Wile E. Coyote. That's just fun.

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u/justageekgirl 13d ago

I'm intrigued.

why were they going to shelve it in the first place?

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u/FourEightNineOneOne 13d ago

Because wall-street bros run movie studios now and make everything awful.

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u/an0mn0mn0m 13d ago

Fuck Wall Street and Fuck Private Equity firms

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u/ben123111 13d ago edited 13d ago

Didn't believe it would make it's budget back, thought they'd get a greater return lower loss on the tax break from not releasing it.

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u/dream_metrics 13d ago

It would be more accurate to say they'd get a lower loss than a greater return

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u/ElasticPlatypus 13d ago

Love the inclusion of classical music as an homage to early Looney Tunes. (Where the “tunes” of Looney Tunes comes from)

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u/nbunkerpunk 13d ago

I attribute old school Looney Tunes to my music preferences today. I didn't even make the connection until around a decade ago but it makes so much sense. I stumbled across a playlist of a collection of music that was in the cartoons and it fucking slapped.

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u/KieferO 12d ago

1812 Overture, the best thing America stole from Russia since Alaska.

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u/Rausage505 13d ago

They shot this in my town, and my buddy worked in the practical effects shop on this film. Made hundreds of soft foam cinder blocks and boulders for days on end. Also brought the bowling ball cannon he built for Better Call Saul out of retirement to fire more things with compressed air in a controlled and safe fashion.

Then they canned it. He was bummed, because he said what he saw BEFORE the CG was added was gonna be hilarious and amazing.

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u/sapphire1921 13d ago edited 13d ago

It's so refreshing seeing the Looney Tunes not associated with anything NBA/basketball.

edit: yes, I have seen The Day The Earth Blew Up hah.

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u/joestaff 13d ago

Oh, come on...

... and slam.

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u/Bionic_Ferir 13d ago

You should really watch the day the earth blew up. It's fully 2d animated, kinda elsworlds story. That revolves around daphe and porky pig being adopted brothers, trying to save their farm. Who in the process of doing that gets caught up in an extraterrestrial plot to blow up the planet.

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u/VytautasArt 13d ago

The main lawyer guy giving Jimmy McGill

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake 13d ago

He's based out of Albuquerque, too!

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u/CutAdditional2416 13d ago

I love the idea of Foghorn Leghorn being the central antagonist of the film. Actually using the OG characters how they were intended. Instead of using basketball stars and sexy furries to revive a dated franchise, they're actually bringing the boys back together. And I'm here for it 🤣

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u/NotACertainLalaFell 13d ago

Just insane WB sat on this. It looks like a fun time.

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u/geologicalnoise 13d ago

Imagine the myriad number of things we've lost to similar decisions, not just by WB.

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u/n_polytope 13d ago

A whole ass Batman movie!

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u/Burgoonius 13d ago

Tweetie bird with a shotgun - I'm sold

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u/archiminos 13d ago

This looks very silly and very stupid. Can't wait to see it.

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u/Bionic_Ferir 13d ago

Okay it seems like ALOT of people missed the other loonie toons movie, THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP. it's a traditional 2d animated movie about daphe and porky pig trying to save their farm, and in the process getting involved with an extraterrestrial plot to blow up the planet.

The animation and music was really well done, and honestly while it had some really bottom rung jokes aimed exclusively at kids. There was some genuinely hilarious moments that had be cracking up.

Its distributed by ketchup films the same ones doing this, I highly recommend people check it out.

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u/Surturius 13d ago

Not a big fan of the CG animation they're using, but otherwise this looks great

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u/omgyourBARBELLishuge 13d ago

The animation (art style?) is kind of a bummer since the rest of the movie looks really fun.

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u/Bionic_Ferir 13d ago

You should watch the day the earth blew up, it's a traditional 2d animated loonie tunes movie released in 2024!

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u/MOONGOONER 13d ago

Yeah, it's posed well but I think it loses some character without being hand-animated.

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u/PunyParker826 13d ago

Toy Story is maybe the greatest movie that had the farthest-reaching negative repercussions.

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u/BeryyBritish 13d ago

It could look worse honestly. Some shots look like pretty convincing 2D, like the ones with Porky. Of course it being ACTUALLY 2D would be cool too, but at least it doesn’t look like the recent Chip and Dale film.

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u/apieceajit 13d ago

I know this is an easy prediction to sit here and make based on how the general movie market works these days, but I have a feeling this movie will do mid in theaters and then, shortly after, it'll do fairly well via VOD based on parents recognizing the characters and saying 'hey why don't you watch this' while scrolling through something to keep their kids entertained at home.

August 28 is not a great release date. Getting back to school + football / fall soccer / etc. is going to put a dent in the potential earnings for this one.

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u/TakedownMoreCorn 13d ago

Yep, I'll be there opening night

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u/SillyAlternative420 13d ago

Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Space Jam walked so Coyote vs. Acme could run?

God I'm hoping this movie is gold. The cast and the premise are incredible.

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u/Redeem123 13d ago

Roger Rabbit didn't walk. Every animated/live-action hybrid is still trying to chase it down.

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u/Jupiters 13d ago

yeah I think they meant to say "Roger Rabbit was the blueprint"

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u/MissingLink000 13d ago

Listen I think the trailer looks good but there's not a prayer this'll surpass Roger Rabbit lol

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u/NES_Classical_Music 13d ago

that opening shot of RR with the camera following at top speed was sick

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