Daffy Duck and Porky Pig fend off an alien invasion in ‘The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie’ (video)

Aiming for a worldwide release on Feb. 28, 2025, “The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie” has had a circuitous and oft-delayed path to the big screen after being abandoned by incoming Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav as a direct-to-streaming feature, before eventually getting a theatrical presentation courtesy of the most unlikely indie distribution partner.

Now check out the first hilarious trailer which arrived as the movie headed for an Oscar-qualifying engagement on Dec. 13, ahead of its global unwrapping next year.

This hand-drawn feature represents the first fully-animated movie in Looney Tunes’ long 80-year history and it originally debuted at France’s Annecy International Animation Film Festival this past June. But it was a seriously bumpy ride for the imaginative sci-fi project that began in 2021 as an animated film for Warner Bros.’ Max streaming service directed by Peter Browngardt. “At least three, four times during the production I was waiting for that phone call [to shut down the movie,” Browngardt told THR. “It was a rocky journey.”

A stampede of no less than 15 screenwriters and story consultants have their names on the far-out cartoon tale, which focuses on Porky Pig and Daffy Duck stumbling onto a diabolical alien plot to conquer the Earth using wads of mind-control bubblegum and their attempts to rescue our planet from these candy-crazed extraterrestrials.