John Cena has joined the cast of Coyote vs Acme, an upcoming live-action/CG animation hybrid film that will center around the classic Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cena has closed a deal to enter the wacky and wonderful world of the Looney Tunes to portray one of the primary antagonists in Warner Bros. upcoming feature Coyote vs Acme, which is said to be based on a New Yorker humor article of the same name, written by Ian Frazier and first published in 1990.
The film will tell the story of a down-on-his-luck attorney who takes on Wile E. Coyote as a client in a lawsuit against the Acme Corporation over its many defective products, only to discover that the boss of his former law firm is representing Acme. Cena will play the Acme lawyer in the Looney Tunes movie, which is due to enter production in New Mexico this March.
Coyote vs Acme will be directed by Dave Green (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows, Earth to Echo) from a script penned by Samy Burch. Chris DeFaria and James Gunn are both attached as producers on the project, which reunites Gunn with Cena after working together on The Suicide Squad and HBO Max's new Peacemaker spinoff series.
The pair are certainly being kept busy as it was recently announced that Peacemaker will be returning for a second season following the show's breakout success on HBO Max, which has quietly seen it become one of the most-watched shows of 2022. Gunn will write and direct all of the episodes in Season 2, with Cena set to reprise the role of Christopher Smith.
Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cena has closed a deal to enter the wacky and wonderful world of the Looney Tunes to portray one of the primary antagonists in Warner Bros. upcoming feature Coyote vs Acme, which is said to be based on a New Yorker humor article of the same name, written by Ian Frazier and first published in 1990.
The film will tell the story of a down-on-his-luck attorney who takes on Wile E. Coyote as a client in a lawsuit against the Acme Corporation over its many defective products, only to discover that the boss of his former law firm is representing Acme. Cena will play the Acme lawyer in the Looney Tunes movie, which is due to enter production in New Mexico this March.
Coyote vs Acme will be directed by Dave Green (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Out of the Shadows, Earth to Echo) from a script penned by Samy Burch. Chris DeFaria and James Gunn are both attached as producers on the project, which reunites Gunn with Cena after working together on The Suicide Squad and HBO Max's new Peacemaker spinoff series.
The pair are certainly being kept busy as it was recently announced that Peacemaker will be returning for a second season following the show's breakout success on HBO Max, which has quietly seen it become one of the most-watched shows of 2022. Gunn will write and direct all of the episodes in Season 2, with Cena set to reprise the role of Christopher Smith.
Adele Ankers-Range is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow her on Twitter.
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