Will Forte Details Working With the Looney Tunes in Coyote vs. Acme
57SNL alum Will Forte has shared the screen with plenty of talented people throughout his excellent career, from Bruce Dern in the emotional road trip dramedy Nebraska to Kristen Schaal in his Emmy-nominated comedy The Last Man on Earth among many others. In the upcoming film, Coyote vs. Acme, however, he's co-starring with arguably his most enduringly popular screen partner yet - Wile E. Coyote. Set to release this year, the comedic live-action animation hybrid will see Forte playing a lawyer for the perpetually unfortunate coyote who forges a bond with him as they battle the infamous Acme corporation which is responsible for many of Wile E's injuries.
While Forte was attending this year's Sundance Film Festival for Aliens Abducted My Parents and Now I Feel Kinda Left Out, Collider's own Steve Weintraub asked what the actor could reveal about the project. He broke down the general premise of defending one of the Looney Tunes' most iconic characters and drew comparisons to the all-time classic Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, especially with the mix of animation and live-action. Most of all, he heaped praise on his co-stars John Cena and Lana Condor as well as the talented creative team that features Earth to Echo's Dave Green at the helm with Samy Burch penning the screenplay and James Gunn and Chris DeFaria producing:
"I mean, it was so fun to make this. It came out of this article that I think is decades old. Wiley Coyote is suing the Acme Corporation because of all the different contraptions that have exploded in his face, and stuff like that. And so, I get to play Wile E. Coyote's lawyer, and it's a mixture of animation, and it's like a Who Framed Roger Rabbit? style movie. And yeah, John Cena is so great in it. Lana Condor is in it. It was so much fun making it, and these guys who are making it are so smart. Because you’ve got to figure out where this animated character is going to move to. It was amazing to be a part of it. So, I'm excited to see how it turns out because, of course, I'm acting with a tennis ball a lot of times. There's a tennis ball for an eye-line, and it's moving around. So, yeah, I think, I don't know how much more I can say about it, but I've blathered on for a while."
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