For decades, Wile E. Coyote has chased the Road Runner across deserts, canyons, and collapsing cliffs, only to see his elaborate traps backfire in increasingly brutal slapstick fashion. Now, in Coyote vs. ACME, the tattered cartoon outlaw has had enough and is suing the ACME Corporation for the years of damage done to him in their faulty gadgets.

Warner Bros. Animation’s Coyote vs. ACME has finally entered the spotlight with the release of its first full trailer, reintroducing audiences to Wile E. Coyote in a surprisingly topical, meta-comedy format. The film plants the iconic desert predator in a modern courtroom showdown, as he teams up with a charismatic injury lawyer, played by Will Forte, to sue the ACME Corporation for decades of faulty gadgets and catastrophic product failures.

The trailer leans into the collision of slapstick and satire, framing ACME as a soulless conglomerate more concerned with profits and legal loopholes than accountability, while John Cena’s corporate attorney character embodies slick, polished corporate deflection. Lana Condor and Tone Bell round out the human cast, as a rogue’s gallery of Looney Tunes staples, from Bugs Bunny to Daffy Duck, populates the animated backdrop.

Arriving in theaters on August 28, 2026, Coyote vs. ACME marks Ketchup Entertainment’s high-profile revival of a project once shelved as a tax write-off. The studio’s decision to push the film into wide release adds a layer of real-world irony to its story of a victimized consumer fighting back against a powerful corporate machine.

While Coyote vs. ACME revives classic Looney Tunes satire with a corporate twist, another Warner Bros. project eyes a similar revival.

Speculation around a third Space Jam installment has quietly gathered momentum

Speculation around a third Space Jam installment has quietly gathered momentum since the mixed reception of Space Jam: A New Legacy, but as of now, there is no official greenlight or concrete release plan from Warner Bros. Industry trade reports and outlet-sourced rumors, however, repeatedly point to one idea gaining traction internally: bringing Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson into the Looney Tunes-verse in a starring role.

Several entertainment outlets, citing studio insiders, have described discussions in which a director or creative team attached to a potential Space Jam 3 project has expressed interest in casting Johnson, either as a modern athlete-hero or as a larger-than-life villain figure, leaning into his appeal across basketball-adjacent action and family-friendly spectacle.

Reports also suggest that any sequel would likely lean even harder into the “live-action characters sucked into a cartoon world” formula that defined A New Legacy, possibly threading in more digital and meta-style references akin to Coyote vs. ACME’s send-up of corporate Hollywood. Studio executives are reportedly cautious, wanting to avoid the same mixed reviews and box-office performance that greeted the 2021 film, so talks remain exploratory rather than contractual.

What do you think about the Coyote vs. ACME trailer and its corporate satire? Let us know in the comments.

Written by

Pratham Gurung

Edited by

Adiba Nizami