If you have a passing interest in film and animation, you’ve likely heard of Coyote Vs. Acme, a feature film in the Roger Rabbit tradition of blending 2D animation with live action focusing on characters from Warner Brothers’ Roadrunner cartoons. The film would have focused on Wile E. Coyote suing the ubiquitous Acme corporation after decades of selling him faulty products, and by all accounts appeared to be a passion project from everyone involved. The movie was, in fact, complete and ready for release- only for Warner Brothers to kill it at the last possible second in the name of a multi-million dollar tax writeoff.
Another confirmation that WB is 100% evil.
it’s mostly the new ownership. wb isn’t in charge anymore… discovery is. and they’ve been shit for ~ 20 years, at least.
Kind of tragically hilarious that their name is Discovery when they are hiding and killing creative works.
It fits. They’re like British Archaeologists from last century. They dig up works of art created by others, judge their value, and lock them up in a vault.
they went all-in on fake ‘reality’ bullshit years ago.
There have been several WB movies that have named dropped WB as one of the villains of said movie.
Movies that only existed because WB demanded a sequel.
I know the Matrix 4 did this. What are the others?
Space Jam 2 did it pretty blatantly. The antagonist of the movie is a WB algorithm that gained sentience.
Teen Titans go to the Movies made WB studio the vehicle for the villain’s world domination plan.
Gremlins 2 was one of the first to do it. It’s the main reason that movie went so far off the rails.
Gremlins 2 went off the rails… and it was glorious.