‘Coyote vs. ACME’ Drops an ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ Parody Teaser and Promises Bugs Bunny Will Return

Few movies in recent memory have had a journey quite as turbulent as ‘Coyote vs. ACME’. The live-action and animation hybrid comedy began development in 2018, with a theatrical release originally scheduled for 2023. Then came one of the more baffling decisions in modern Hollywood history, when Warner Bros. Discovery removed the movie from its schedule and announced in November 2023 that it would not release the completed film, opting instead for a roughly $30 million tax write-off.

The backlash was significant, drawing condemnation from filmmakers and even a congressman, and bowing to that pressure, Warner Bros. allowed the creative team to shop the film to other buyers. The road remained rocky, but the project ultimately found its savior. Ketchup Entertainment acquired the film in 2025, and shortly before the trailer was released, the company entered into a distribution partnership with V10 Entertainment to lead sales efforts across its film catalog.

Now, with the film officially heading to theaters, the marketing team has made a bold and playful first impression. Ketchup Entertainment debuted a teaser for ‘Coyote vs. ACME’ on Tax Day, announcing that the first full trailer would arrive the following week. The teaser itself leaned hard into pop culture territory, parodying the ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ style and signing off with the cheeky promise that “Bugs Bunny will return,” a riff on the classic Marvel post-credits tradition of promising heroes in future installments.

The gag lands harder given what fans already know about Bugs’ role in the film. Eric Bauza voices nine characters in the film, with Bugs Bunny serving as a deep-throat-style informant for Will Forte’s lawyer character. In the trailer itself, Wile E. and his legal team meet up with a shadowy figure in a trenchcoat whose distinctive long ears and appetite for carrots make his identity pretty obvious. It is exactly the kind of self-aware humor the film seems built around.

Directed by Dave Green from a script by Samy Burch, the film stars Will Forte, Lana Condor, John Cena, P.J. Byrne, Tone Bell, Martha Kelly, and Luis Guzmán, alongside Looney Tunes characters including Tweety, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, and Foghorn Leghorn in significant supporting roles and cameos.

The full trailer also features appearances from Road Runner, Porky Pig, and a closing voiceover gag in which a narrator declares that “the ACME Corporation is releasing this film for accounting purposes only,” a direct shot at Warner Bros. Fans online have been loving every second of it.

Will Forte, who plays attorney Kevin Avery, has spoken about how stunned he is that the film survived at all, saying he “never thought it would happen” and expressing genuine excitement for audiences to finally see it. ‘Coyote vs. ACME’ is set to arrive in theaters on August 28, 2026.

Whether Bugs Bunny’s “return” teases a larger role than expected or is simply the film’s cheeky way of winking at Marvel, one thing is clear: this scrappy underdog of a movie has more than earned its moment in the spotlight, and if you grew up watching Wile E. Coyote faceplant into canyon walls, the thought of him finally getting justice in court has to feel at least a little satisfying, so let us know whether you think ‘Coyote vs. ACME’ is the comeback story of the year.