Coyote vs. Acme Reaches Screens 36 Years After Ian Frazier’s 1990 Satire
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Updated · The New York Times · Aug 14
Coyote vs. Acme Reaches Screens 36 Years After Ian Frazier’s 1990 Satire
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Aug 14
Summary
A film version of “Coyote vs. Acme” is moving ahead, turning Ian Frazier’s 1990 New Yorker humor piece into a movie after decades of development limbo.
The story imagines Wile E. Coyote suing Acme over the injuries and failures caused by its gadgets while he chases the Road Runner.
Frazier said he had largely forgotten the project until a friend emailed in 2022 to say filming was happening on her Albuquerque street.
The adaptation traces back to The New Yorker’s Feb. 19, 1990, 65th anniversary issue, where the piece first appeared before being optioned for film.