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Author: Rhaomi
Why Deleting and Destroying Finished Movies Like Coyote vs Acme Should Be a Crime
Whatever the technical legality of writing off completed films and destroying them for pennies on the dollar, it's morally reprehensible: Oller memorably calls it "an accounting assassination." Defending it on grounds that it's not illegal is bootlicking. The practice also has a whiff of the plot of Mel Brooks's "The Producers". The original idea of Brooks' hustler protagonists Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom was to mount a play so awful that it would close immediately, and they can live off the unspent money they raised from bilking old ladies. When the show unexpectedly becomes a hit, they blow up the theater. The biggest difference between the plot of "The Producers" and what happened to "Batgirl" and "Coyote vs Acme" is that in "The Producers," the public got to see the play.
Background: The Final Days of 'Coyote vs. Acme': Offers, Rejections and a Roadrunner Race Against Time, in which WB executives axe a completed and likeable film they've never even seen for a tax write-off after a token, bad-faith effort at selling it.