COYOTE VS ACME Will Never Be Released

[shangri__la]

EXCLUSIVE: Inside the final days of #CoyoteVsAcme as sources tell TheWrap that the film's rescue operation is in peril. https://t.co/xQai4M080i
- TheWrap (@TheWrap) February 9, 2024
• 'COYOTE VS ACME’ is expected to be shelved forever and deleted

Comments

[mwffj]

I'm now convinced that Zaslav is intentionally trying to kill WB. He must have some kind of scam set up where if WB dissolves, his dick turns into unobtainium or some shit.

He's literally set the precedent that you can make a movie for a studio and they can just go "nah, fuck you" and delete it. I have no idea why anyone will work with WB after this. I mean, what if you get injured on set and then need those distribution residuals to pay off medical bills? Or what if you just set up your compensation like "give me 100,000 for production and then I want 10% of the back-end"? Will WB just agree to that and then say "oh no, sorry, we can't release this for tax reasons" after its wrapped? Are we going to see actors demand ridiculous upfront salaries in light of this?

[veritas_44]

I’ve been on this thought process since day one. Every decision since the merger has suggested as much

[anterrabre]

If the streets are correct, a lot of producers, directors, etc quietly cancelled meetings with WB regarding new projects over this. No one wants to work with a studio who does this sort of thing. Not only is it bad business, but everyone (cast, crew, marketing people, crafts, etc) work really, really hard on a movie, and in a lot of cases having a credit on a film leads to more work. Deleting a movie from existence takes those opportunities away. The fact that it's one of their own IPs makes it even worse because it makes folks rightfully think "If this is what you do with one of your long-standing, much beloved IPs, what would you do to MY project?" And they would be right.

[afeelingunacted]

It's so crazy cause before this I thought of them as one of the most interesting major studios.

The 2010s were good for them.

Edge of Tomorrow, Crazy Rich Asians, Mad Max: Fury Road, Gravity etc.

[butifildisaster]

Were there any big name celebrities tied to voice acting on this? I wish someone with a bigger voice would speak up on this bullshit.

[sandstorm]

John Cena is in it

[butifildisaster]

Welp.

[escalena]

the cast included Will Forte and John Cena, not on voice roles but on actual flesh and bone roles (like Michael Jordan in Space Jam)

[sandstorm]

refusing to let them counter-offer.

that's the kicker. Is his mindset of "We're the new regime, and we don't want to release movies greenlit under the former regime in any way shape or form"....this inflexible?

[pseudonygma]

I don't buy it. Something about this seems personal. You don't just ax a movie that test audiences love.

This is exactly what I was talking about back in the Batgirl post. What's stopping these studios from blackmailing creatives and everyone down the production line on such scale? Metoo is about to get a whole lot worse now that studios know they can use the tax loophole to scrap finished films from distribution. And it's such a conflict of interest to have studios be in charge of hiring intimacy coordinators; it should be up to the actors' union to assign one but as part of the studio's fixed cost if they want to shoot scenes that require one.

[2_on]

like they're not even going to leak it and let people watch it?

[shangri__la]

People involved with the movie I guess (from when the initial chaos happened) were attempting to "rescue" it to leak that shit and they were stopped.

[sandstorm]

tbh if they make hard copies and share it offline, someone will definitely put it up. It could still be DRM protected to a degree. Maybe they should stick it on VHS tapes.

[a_files06]

So basically WB just wanted to save face by pretending that they would sell it but had no intention unless they got an OUTRAGEOUS number that they knew they would never get.