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.

  • Guntrigger@feddit.ch
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    9 months ago

    Kind of tragically hilarious that their name is Discovery when they are hiding and killing creative works.

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      9 months ago

      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.