Looney Tunes: Back in Action - The Daffy Cut (colloquially referred to as the Daffy Cut) is the director's cut of the 2003 American live-action/animated comedy film produced by Warner Bros. Pictures Animation. It is intended to match director Joe Dante's original vision for the film, prior to subsequent studio interference. Brendan Fraser, Scarlett Johansson, and Jeremy Renner (replacing Jenna Elfman and Steve Martin) star in the film; Timothy Dalton, Margaret Qualley (replacing Heather Locklear), and Sharon Horgan (replacing Joan Cusack) appear in supporting roles, while Jeff Bergman leads the voice cast. Like the original cut of the film, its plot, which parodies action and spy film conventions, follows Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck as they become intertwined in a plot by the ACME Chairman (Renner) to transform the world's population into subservient monkeys using the Blue Monkey diamond. They accompany aspiring stuntman DJ Drake (Fraser) and Warner Bros. executive Kate Houghton (Johansson) on their journey to thwart the Chairman's plot, which doubles as a mission to rescue the former's abducted father, Damian (Dalton).
Looney Tunes: Back in Action is scheduled to debut on Netflix at an undermined release date.
Cast[]
- Brendan Fraser as Damian "D. J." Drake, Jr.
- Fraser also appears as a fictionalized version of himself.
- Scarlett Johansson as Kate Houghton
- Jeremy Renner as Mr. Chairman
- Margaret Qualley as Dusty Tails
- Sharon Horgan as MaryAnn "Mother" O'Connor
- Timothy Dalton as Damian Drake
- Bill Goldberg as Mr. Smith
- Danny DeVito as Thaddeus J. Plotz
- Melissa Barrera as Nora Rita Norita
- Awkwafina as Acme VP, Bad Ideas
- Kieran Culkin as Acme VP, Stating the Obvious
- Ron Perlman as Acme VP, Never Learning
- Robert Picardo as Acme VP, Rhetorical Questions
- Jeff Goldblum as Acme VP, Nitpicking
- Vernon Wells as Acme VP, Child Labor
- Charlie Day as Acme VP, Unfairly Promoted
- Leo Rossi as Acme VP, Climbing to the Top
- Archie Hahn as Stunt Director
- Paul Hollywood as Security Guard (cameo)
- Tracee Ellis Ross as Hollywood Director (cameo)
- Jeff Gordon as himself (cameo)
- Matthew Lillard as himself (cameo)
- James Gunn as himself (cameo)
Voice cast[]
- Jeff Bergman as Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam and Beaky Buzzard
- Eric Bauza as Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Foghorn Leghorn, Elmer Fudd, Marvin the Martian, Nasty Canasta, and Pepé Le Pew
- Candi Milo as Granny
- Bob Bergen as Tweety
- Paul Julian as Road Runner (archive recordings) (uncredited)
- Jackie Morrow as Owl Jolson (archive recordings) (uncredited)
- Brendan Fraser as Tasmanian "Taz" Devil and Tasmanian She-Devil