John Cena Says He'd Made Peace With COYOTE VS. ACME Never Coming Out - "I Don't Own My Performance"
The animated/live-action comedy Coyote vs. Acme has been on quite a wild ride. The film started shooting in 2022, and by early 2024, Warner Bros. had decided that they would scrap the movie, despite other studios’ offers to buy the film that had reviewed well with early audiences.
Now, we are just two weeks away from the movie finally being released, and one of the film’s stars, John Cena, recently explained to Entertainment Weekly how he “can accept both the positive and the negative” of the situation after Ketchup Entertainment saved the Dave Green-helmed Looney Tunes movie.
“I am hired by an employer to do a task, and it’s my job to prepare as much as I can, be early, be coachable, be passionate, and be reliable. I do that and hope for the best.
“Those expectations are beyond my control, so it doesn’t make me view the business any differently. Keep in mind, it is the movie business. Sometimes, business decisions are things that we don’t see through the same lens.”
Cena continued, “Of course, I want my work seen by an audience. That’s how I can accept both the positive and the negative and get better as a performer. But I don’t own my performance. I’m contracted to do a job, and the person who owns it gets to decide what happens with it.”
Ultimately, Cena rationalizes, “Even if the movie never saw the light of day, the takeaway I have is that, with the things within my control, I got to be there on the ground with people who made me better and people I care about, and I got to do the thing.”
In Coyote vs. Acme, Wile E. Coyote sees an ad for attorney Kevin Avery’s (Will Forte) legal action against the Acme Corporation’s faulty products, deciding to fight back after decades of failed attempts to apprehend his nemesis, Road Runner.
The movie also stars Lana Condor, Tone Bell, Martha Kelly, Luis Guzmán and countless beloved Looney Tunes characters. The story is written by Samy Burch from a story she co-wrote with James Gunn and Jeremy Slater.
via: Deadline