MacGruber’s Will Forte and Lana Condor have signed on to star opposite John Cena in Coyote vs Acme, a live-action/CG animation hybrid film centred on Looney Tunes character Wile E. Coyote.

Dave Green (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows) is directing for Warner Bros. from a screenplay by Samy Burch, based on the New Yorker humour article “Coyote v. Acme” by Ian Frazier.

Coyote vs Acme will tell the story of a down-on-his-luck lawyer (the human kind) who takes on the hapless coyote as a client in his lawsuit against Acme Corporation over its defective products. To make matters more complicated, the attorney soon finds out that Acme is being represented by his former boss.

That ex-boss will be played by Cena, with Will Forte tackling the role of the coyote’s lawyer. Forte is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live, and recently starred in television series The Last Man on Earth and The Afterparty. Condor (Moonshot, X-Men: Apocalypse) will also star in an as yet undisclosed role.

Chris DeFaria and James Gunn are producing the feature, which is scheduled to begin filming later this month. Coyote vs Acme is slated for release on July 21st, 2023.