HOW WILE E. COYOTE DODGED DEATH AGAIN
WITHCOYOTE VS. ACMEFINALLY SET FOR RELEASE, WE CHART ITS TORTURED PATH TO THE SCREEN
There has been courtroom drama on screen and off for the infamous coyote.
1990: FURRY-OUS BEGINNINGS
The New Yorker publishes Ian Frazier’s Coyote v. Acme — a short story presented as court transcripts from an imagined legal dispute between bungling Looney Tunes antagonist Wile E. Coyote and Acme Corporation, the company that supplies his permanently backfiring booby traps. A masterclass in deadpan humour, the piece contains such excellent lines as, “Mr Coyote is self-employed and thus not eligible for Workmen’s Compensation.”