Full Trailer For Coyote vs. ACME Teases Movie ‘ACME Doesn’t Want You To See’

The long-shelved Coyote vs. ACME is seeing the light of day in August, and the first trailer for the John Cena & Will Forte-led film is online. Ketchup Entertainment released the full trailer for the live-action/CGI hybrid movie on Wednesday; you can check it out below.

The trailer sets up the story of Wile E. Coyote filing a lawsuit against Acme Corporation for selling him alleged products that don’t work and hurt him. He finds a lawyer with a history (Forte) of settling with ACME, but they decide to go all the way to court — facing off with Buddy Crane (Cena), ACME’s lawyer.

The film has has a long and wild road to get to the big screen. Made for $70 million, the film was shelved by Warner Bros. in 2023 for a tax write-off. The backlash against the news caused the studio to reverse their decision and try to sell the film off, but they rejected offers from a number of studios and the film went back on the shelf.

Ketchup Entertainment finally acquired the movie in March of last year for a reported $50 million price tag. The trailer plays on the film’s release issues, billing it as “The movie ACME doesn’t want you to see.”

The film is directed by Dave Green from a script by Samy Burch, based on a story by Burch, James Gunn, and Jeremy Slater. The movie stars Forte, Lana Condor, John Cena, P. J. Byrne, and Lus Guzman and arrives on August 28th. The synopsis reads:

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 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.