Comic-Con 2026 Debuts Trailers for 'Coyote vs Acme' Movie, Plus 'Neuromancer' and 'Blade Runner 2099' Series (cnet.com) 37
Big news from Comic-Con 2026:
- "Coyote vs. ACME" debuted its long-awaited final trailer. CNET calls it "an animation-meets-live-action story," with the Coyote catapulting into theaters this August 28. (The film began development back in 2018, but was shelved for a tax write-off in 2023 by Warner Bros. until a backlash led to its sale to Ketchup Entertainment.) "Fed up with Acme's unreliable products, Wile E. Coyote decides to hire a lawyer and sue the company..." writes CNET. "The movie also features Lana Condor along with a host of Looney Tunes characters like Porky Pig, Tweety, Foghorn Leghorn and Granny (who gets dinged by an anvil)."
- In other movie news, CNET says Johnny Depp also "made a surprise appearance at Comic-Con, donning a costume as Ebenezer Scrooge" to promote his November 13 movie about the miser from Charles Dickens' famous Christmas novella. (Ian McKellen and Daisy Ridley are also in the movie.)
But several geek favorites are being filmed as TV series...
- There's big news for William Gibson fans, reports Entertainment Weekly. "Two years after Apple TV announced production on the first-ever series adaptation of William Gibson's seminal 1984 novel Neuromancer, the lucky few hundred who attended the studio's Hall H panel at Comic-Con 2026 got to watch the first teaser.
- For Amazon's Prime Video, the Tolkien-derived "Rings of Power" series released a season 3 trailer that CNET said "successfully hides the best parts with fire... The trailer suggests that Sauron is building an army, and all of Middle-earth is trying to find ways to stop him... Rings of Power season 3 will start dropping weekly episodes on Nov. 11, meaning this show will be airing at the same time the Peter Jackson films will be celebrating their 25th anniversary."
- Later in November Amazon's Prime Video will also debut Blade Runner 2099, an eight-episode series that's a sequel to 2017's film Blade Runner 2049, reports CNET. "Set in an alternate version of LA where replicants run things and the humans play second fiddle, the series sees Yeoh's replicant Olwen chasing down outlaw replicants who've gone missing. With her own shelf life on a ticking clock, the stakes are high for her and for her human fugitive partner, Cora..."
- Paramount Plus will debut Avatar: Seven Havens in October, a new animated series from the creators of Avatar: The Last Airbender which CNET says "follows a pair of twin avatars, one of whom is Korra's successor."
- Disney+ has season 3 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
- Kevin Feige said Marvel's television slate will include more seasons of "X-Men '97" and the upcoming "VisionQuest" TV series.
- HBO Max will launch a new Green Lantern series called Lanterns on August 16.
Heh (Score:1)
Ran out of ideas, have we? Why don't you let chatgpt suggest something new and interesting?
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Lease-backs never work out for those that originally own the land. Vulture Capital 101.
Misread the title... (Score:2)
I honestly thought it read "Coyote vs Acne".
Time to go back to bed.
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Looking forward to it (Score:2)
I have to admit that I'm intrigued. I really hope they capture the original magic in this new format.
Also, queue the 'Acmazon' memes!
Neuromancer looks good. (Score:2)
The Neuromancer TV show looks good although its hard to tell from that clip how well its going to follow the book.
What I am most interested in is how they depict cyberspace and whether it looks like the simple depiction described in the book or whether it looks more like The Matrix.
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I loved the book, read it several times, and I can say that every single fragment of the trailer, I can place PRECISELY in the book... I can't wait to see it.
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As someone with aphantasia, the settings never really stick with me (or that may be separate from the aphantasia, honestly, I don't know) but the vibe is very much what I was hoping for.
I read the book again a couple years ago, and it's aged really well, honestly. The things he gets wrong aren't that critical, in my opinion. I've read a lot of scifi that has done a much worse job of hanging together, even though it's only 10 or 20 years old. Neuromancer was published when I was a kid, and even the NAME is s
I won't bother. (Score:2)
Book conversions are almost always WORSE. Some books simply can't convert properly let alone being just "ok" conversions. This is a book that I can't imagine being done well even if the best people tackle it; it's simply not a book that converts. Many have begun at trying to adapt this book and it always failed to materialize or they settled for inspiration and did something else more feasible.
Also, because of the timing it's not the same now as it was back then and that you can't recreate at the same le
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The Neuromancer TV show looks good although its hard to tell from that clip how well its going to follow the book.
The creator also made the Jack Ryan TV series which, aside from the titular character working for the CIA, has absolutely nothing to do with Tom Clancy's character. They turned him into Jason Bourne. Looking at his other productions, it isn't boding well.
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I want someone to turn the whole "president Jack Ryan" stuff into movies/TV. Although considering that it all starts with a Japanese kamikaze pilot crashing a fully loaded passenger jet into the US Capitol and killing most of the government in one fell swoop, its probably not something Hollywood is going to want to put on screen...
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I always figured that that's where Tom Clancy ran out of ideas, rather like Daffy Duck at the end of The Scarlet Pumpernifckel [wikipedia.org].
That quote aged well /s (Score:2)
Grok: “The sky above the port was the color of a hyperreal void that has already abolished the real.”
Re:That quote aged well /s (Score:4, Insightful)
It did become "dated" faster than any of us would have expected, reading it back in the 1980s. But "dated" doesn't mean that it's bad or that it has aged poorly. It's still one of the greatest opening lines of any novel. The reason you can tell that it's a great opening line is that you were able to recall it word for word. You probably didn't even need to look it up to remember the exact quote.
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People nowadays don't know what dead channel means and what color it should have.
https://ibb.co/kgMCKRWV [ibb.co]
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But do you kids know why?
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Japan had already invented the future of "ads covering every surface" in 1984.
Betty Hahn. A Suite of 11 Photographs from the Shinjuku series, Tokyo. 1984.
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Re:That quote aged well /s (Score:5, Informative)
It was weird seeing a great science fiction writer volunteering all the guesses about the future that missed the mark. Gibson even wrote a new introduction for Burning Chrome [amzn.to] where he said "Nothing acquires quite as rapid or peculiar a patina of age as an imaginary future..."
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Neuromancer updated for modern AI? (Score:4, Funny)
Coyote vs Acme Concept (Score:3)
Google says "The New Yorker Piece: Ian Frazier's "Coyote v. Acme" was published on February 26, 1990. It is written as a formal legal brief of product liability claims listing 85 counts against the Acme Company. This specific essay is the recognized inspiration for the upcoming film.
"But, eight years earlier, Joey Green wrote a three-part satirical product liability piece titled "Cliff-Hanger Justice" in the August, September, and October 1982 issues of National Lampoon that also featured Wile E. Coyote suing Acme. While it predated The New Yorker article, the movie itself credits Frazier's 1990 text."
The National Lampoon article is the one that I remember. Very well done. I gave it to my lawyer-brother and he commented that it had the feel of a serious legal brief.
Neuromancer looks like it could be good (Score:4, Insightful)
It says something, I think, when you can watch 72 second trailer and pretty much identify each locale, each character, and even some specific scenes, assuming you've read the book and know the story already.
And as I understand it, Gibson is directly involved in the production. This teaser has me - cautiously - optimistic that I'll finally have a reason to get an Apple TV sub, at least for a little while.
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Re:Neuromancer looks like it could be good (Score:4, Interesting)
Yeah, I thought the same thing; the actor looks too old for Case. But setting that aside, he actually seems like a good choice.
I agree on Molly as well. Aside from the fact that I've always visualized her as a blonde for some reason, which goes against Gibson's description of her, there's something about the actress that just doesn't feel right.
Finally, assuming I'm correct about who's who, I think you could swap the actors for Peter and Armitage. Peter is supposed to be tall and thin, Armitage is supposed to be stocky, but in the teaser, (again, assuming I've got the characters right; I think I do,) it's reversed.
But these are all minor complaints. I had actually been thinking how, done correctly, someone like Eddie Izzard could play a spectacular Peter, even though he doesn't look the part.
But this was a teaser. If all the actors have the necessary gravitas and play their parts well, the actual physicality shouldn't matter too much.
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Positive on the idea of subscribing to another streaming service - bizarre.
I'm interested in the film - hoping it's that and not a 30-hour "miniseries" slog - but getting excited at the prospect of subscribing is still bizarre. I'm excited at the prospect I might be able to leave the house and see it in a theater. Been spending too much time here.
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I phrased that kinda weirdly. Blame a lack of coffee when I wrote it.
But it is going to be a miniseries. From what I can tell, 10 episodes, probably around an hour each. Which, to be fair, I think is necessary; the story doesn't really fit into a 90-minute to 2-hour movie format, and would still be pretty compressed even at 3 hours.
I'm not excited to sign up for a streaming service, (I'm not signed up for any, right this moment, actually.) But it's been about two years since a TV show came out that I was ac
Coyote vs. ACME (Score:2)
It's about time a quality movie gets released from Hollyweird. Let's hope the trailers are an indication of the fun.
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From the looks of that trailer, Coyote vs ACME just might be the movie that gets me to bite the bullet, pay the exorbitant price for a ticket to go see it in a theater. The last time I set foot in a movie theater was 2015, for "The Force Awakens".. Since then, if there's a movie that I'd like to see (highly doubtful, with the sewage that Hollyweird usually puts out) I'd wait till it came out on Redbox, then I'd rent it, rip it to my media server and voila.. Can't even do THAT anymore.. Always had a warm pl
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Yeah, it won't get me to the theater. The last movie I saw in the theater was The Force Awakens too. The whole experience just sucked. Rude people, OMG overly priced everything, and the sound system sounded borked. I have a 55" TV at home coupled to a nice Bose sound system. Plenty big enough for me.
Why? (Score:1)
"Coyote vs. ACME"
When we can watch Zelenskyy vs. Putin.
National Lampoon did this over 40 years ago (Score:2)
National Lampoon is a humor magazine that went out of business in the 1990s. In the early 1980s they did a three part series called "Cliff-Hanger Justice" it was about Wile E. Coyote suing Acme Corporation.