{"id":95181,"date":"2025-07-26T22:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95181\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T22:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T22:28:09","slug":"comic-con-gets-animated-with-coyote-vs-acme-and-bad-girls-2-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/95181\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic-Con gets animated with ‘Coyote vs. Acme’ and ‘Bad Girls 2’ updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN DIEGO \u2014 Comic-Con<\/a> is headed to space for its third day. But first, it got animated.<\/p>\n

Fans got a sneak peek at \u201cCoyote vs. ACME,\u201d a hybrid live-action and animated project that was shelved by Warner Bros. in a cost-cutting move but will get a theatrical release in 2026.<\/p>\n

The movie features John Cena, who is also a star of the DC series \u201cPeacemaker,\u201d which will have a presentation Saturday in Comic-Con\u2019s massive Hall H.<\/p>\n

Animation was the theme of Hall H Saturday morning, with the cast of \u201cBad Guys 2\u201d teasing new footage from the movie and describing how they recorded their characters.<\/p>\n

Marc Maron, who plays Snake, joked he asked to be tied up as he performed his lines on the floor. \u201cThe depth of the character should read a little more this time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The film, based on the graphic novel series by Aaron Blabey, introduces a new crew of animal criminals, the Bad Girls played by Danielle Brooks, Natasha Lyonne and Maria Bakalova.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s biggest presentations at the pop culture extravaganza will be for \u201cProject Hail Mary,\u201d which stars Ryan Gosling on an interstellar mission to save humanity. Fans also got news on a series in the \u201cStar Trek\u201d franchise, including an upcoming episode that will turn the Enterprise crew into puppets.<\/p>\n

\u201cProject Hail Mary\u201d is an adaptation of the book by Martin Weir, whose book \u201cThe Martian\u201d was adapted by Ridley Scott in 2015.<\/p>\n

\u2018Coyote vs. Acme\u2019 coming to theaters in August 2026<\/p>\n

Wile E. Coyote is getting his day in court \u2014 and theaters.<\/p>\n

The stars of \u201cCoyote vs. Acme\u201d delivered a rousing presentation of a movie that at one point wasn\u2019t going to be released.<\/a><\/p>\n

The underdog story \u2014 both of the movie and Coyote \u2014 was a running theme of the panel. But rather than direct ire at Warner Bros., the real-world studio that shelved the project, the panel focused on the fictional Acme Corp.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is purely an Acme decision \u2026 and I am saying this for legal purposes,\u201d moderator Paul Scheer said at the start of the panel.<\/p>\n

The movie is a hybrid of animation and live action and is based on a 1990 New Yorker article that satirized a legal complaint filed by Coyote against Acme, the maker of the TNT, detonators, rocket shoes, catapults and other products that consistently backfire during the Coyote\u2019s fruitless attempts to catch the Roadrunner.<\/p>\n

Laughter filled Hall H, the massive 6,000-seat venue as fans watched a montage of Coyote being blown up, flattened and falling into chasms in a scene set to Johnny Cash\u2019s cover of \u201cHurt.\u201d Coyote is replaying the moments in his lair when an ad for a personal injury lawyer appears on TV.<\/p>\n

They also played six minutes of the movie, including a scene of opening statements in the case in which Coyote\u2019s lawyer, Will Forte, accidentally unleashes a rocket skate into the courtroom, setting Coyote and the judge\u2019s robes on fire. John Cena plays a slick Acme lawyer who wins over the jury, which includes a cartoon character, quickly.<\/p>\n

Forte said he didn\u2019t think the movie would ever get to audiences.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m pretty speechless. You think back to the journey that this movie has taken. I had kind of given up hope at a certain point,\u201d Forte said. At one point, his comments were interrupted by a man playing an Acme lawyer who stormed into Hall H with cease-and-desist letters.<\/p>\n

Director Dave Green said the movie conforms to famed animator Chuck Jones\u2019 rules for the struggle between the Coyote and Roadrunner, which include the bird always staying on the road and the Coyote being ultimately more humiliated than hurt when he falls, is crushed or gets blown up by TNT.<\/p>\n

The movie, which features cameos from numerous Looney Tunes characters like Foghorn Leghorn, Tweety and Bugs Bunny, will be released on Aug. 28, 2026. Ketchup Entertainment teamed up with Warner Bros. on the film and in the release of \u201cThe Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Star Trek: Strange New Worlds\u2019 will feature a puppet episode<\/p>\n

The crew of the USS Enterprise are being turned into puppets for an upcoming \u201cStrange New Worlds\u201d episode, Paramount announced Saturday. The puppets will be created by Jim Henson Creature Shop.<\/p>\n

Season 3, which follows the adventures of the Enterprise under the command of Capt. Christopher Pike, is being released on Paramount+.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s happened at Comic-Con 2025 so far<\/p>\n

An estimated 135,000 people \u2014 many in costumes<\/a> \u2014 are expected to attend Comic-Con 2025, which runs through Sunday in downtown San Diego.<\/p>\n

So far, fans have gotten previews of \u201cFive Nights at Freddy\u2019s 2,\u201d<\/a>the upcoming FX series \u201cAlien: Earth\u201d<\/a> and \u201cPredator: Badlands,\u201d which will be in theaters in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO \u2014 Comic-Con is headed to space for its third day. But first, it got animated. Fans…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":95182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-95181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114921898285050343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}