If Wile E. Coyote ever gets back into theatres, the theme song might as well be Little River Band's 1970's classic, "Lonesome Loser".
On Thursday, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav decided to cancel the release of "Coyote vs. ACME", originally meant to be released back in July, replaced by the mega-successful "Barbie". Amazon tried to acquire "Coyote", but Zaslav, a bottom line obsessed executive with no regard for what the fans want, chose to take a tax write-off to the tune of about $30 million.
File photo courtesy Warner Bros./Cartoon Brew.
"Coyote"'s cast included Will Forte and John Cena, the latter of whom also appeared briefly in "Barbie", with voice-overs by Eric Bauza. "Coyote" joins "SCOOB: Holiday Haunt" & "Batgirl" in the WBD scrap heap, with no chance of ever being released, all three projects having been completed. I'd also seen a thread on reddit that said that Max was bleeding subscribers again. Gee, I wonder why?
Zaslav has to go. Yesterday.
Update, 11/16: WBD has reversed field, and will allow the movie to be shopped elsewhere (i.e. Amazon, Netflix).
4 comments:
What’s next?
Your guess is as good as mine.
Perhaps Zaslav had an angel and a devil on his shoulders and he’s been taking orders from the devil because the angel wasn’t persuasive enough.
I doubt that scenario was in play, MisterSig.
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