'The Day The Earth Blew Up' Gums Up Domestic Teaser Trailer
Fight off the aliens with Daffy, Porky and Petunia on February 28
That was so fast. Only a few days after releasing stills and posters for The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, the first fully animated Looney Tunes feature-length movie created for a movie theater audience, distributor Ketchup Entertainment has released a teaser trailer. The film opens in theaters on February 28, 2025.
The 72-second trailer starts with a rather sentimental approach to the longevity of the duo of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig, even if it’s just about the lives they’ve lived in the continuity of the movie. It certainly plays the Looneyness afterward, with cartoony explosions and butts, feather loss and tongued kisses, and a complete lack of confidence in Daffy that it breaks the fourth wall and suspension of disbelief. Who would ever think of not distributing this genius? The framing is certainly more pointedly comedic than the dramatic bravado with the undercurrent of subversion that the film’s German trailer has.
Starring Eric Bauza as both Porky and Daffy, antics at the local bubble gum factory uncover a secret alien mind control plot. Faced with cosmic odds, the two are determined to save their town (and the world!) … that is if they don’t drive each other totally looney in the process. They team with Petunia, voiced by Candi Milo, to save the world in the familiar Looney Tunes manner. The film also stars Peter MacNicol as The Invader with Wayne Knight as Homeless Man, Fred Tatasciore as Farmer Jim and a scientist, and Laraine Newman as the landlady. The Day The Earth Blew Up is directed by Pete Browngardt who writes with Darrick Bachman, Kevin Costello, Andrew Dickman, David Gemmill, supervising producer Alex Kirwan, Ryan Kramer, Jason Reicher, Michael Ruocco, Johnny Ryan and Eddie Trigueros. Browngardt also executive produces with Sam Register, the president of Warner Bros. Animation where it was made.
It’s also worth noting that Browngardt’s interview with Deadline seemed to contend with the latter’s underestimation of not only the Looney Tunes characters’ story potential, what the franchise can do, but the audience too. The IGN upload of the trailer dwarfs Ketchup’s own by over 20x in viewership.
