John Cena Is Insanely Diplomatic When Asked About 'Coyote vs. ACME'

By Andrew Sanford | Celebrity | August 16, 2024 |

By Andrew Sanford | Celebrity | August 16, 2024 |

Owners and operators of movie studios have been portrayed as villains in the past. That is nothing new. They’re shown as penny-pinchers who only care about money. We see them as loud, screaming, overbearing, monstrous men who simultaneously blow their tops whilst adjusting their monocles and buying Baltic Avenue. Look, plenty of people fit what I just described. Plenty of execs are caricatures that feel almost unbelievable. But there is one among them who is king!

David Zaslav will go down in history as a grade A, prime choice, failure of a CEO. He is not a failure to himself! Ole Zazzy has made out great. He’s been fed a steady diet of bonuses and puff pieces that have, at least, set him up to jump to another company once he is done feasting on the husk of Warner Brothers Discovery. The man will take the money and run, ready to drive another company into the ground as he profits from its demise.

Hopefully, Zaslav will move on to a company that does something I don’t care about. I won’t have to see him in the entertainment world anymore, and someone else (probably Apple) will own the Looney Tunes. Maybe they’ll release the movies they make, unlike Zaslav, who has famously shelved completed films for tax purposes. He took a Batgirl film directed by Adil & Bilall and threw it away. The man saw a movie starring Will Forte as a lawyer representing Wile E. Coyote against ACME, represented by John Cena, and decided it was worth more on the cutting room floor.

Plenty have decried this action as reprehensible. Someone we haven’t heard from is John Cena. He was recently asked about the shelving of Coyote vs. ACME in an interview with The Wrap. To say he went the diplomatic route would be an understatement. “There’s a lot there,” Cena reasoned. “And everyone’s perspective is different. We don’t own the film. That’s the tough part about this business: you have a sense of ownership because you invest your heart and soul. And [director] Dave Green and everybody involved, we made what we thought was a good movie.”

Now, John Cena has yet to condemn Vince McMahon for the horrific actions he has been accused of in a damning lawsuit against him. Yes, he is currently only accused, but I’ve seen those texts. That dude did it. All that to say, Cena hasn’t been one to take shots at the higher-ups. Vince McMahon made John Cena, so the relationship is different. Still, I would have never expected him to suggest that Coyote vs. ACME being shelved was a good business decision. He did, though.

“I would have liked to seen it given a chance,” Cena told The Wrap. “But I’m just one person. And if it was shelved, I would have to think that it was shelved for the right reasons and it was a good business decision,” he explained. “I think I would have tremendous regret and shame if I look back on the legacy of the movie and it was shelved for reasons other than that. So I have to believe in the process. And I love the movie, my heart and soul is in there, but it’s somebody else’s project to do what they want with and they’ve chosen accordingly.”

John! Let’s be real, man. Warner Brothers Discovery just had to admit that they are worth $9 billion less than originally reported. No one is making good business decisions over there! Still, Cena likely wants to play Peacemaker for the foreseeable future. For now, that property is under the watchful eye of David Zaslav. Cena has to play nice, but good lord did he take it to the next level.