'Coyote vs. Acme' Cancelation Controversy - Comment #6,265,059

So let's accept facts here, this movie will never see the light of day. Zaslov made this decision and it's clear he's too stubborn to think one of his decisions could ever be wrong, after all he's a CEO, CEO's aren't wrong. Even if another company threw a fucking stupidly high offer at Zaslov to give the movie to them, he still wouldn't do it, because he's dead set on getting that tax write off. Now what a smart CEO would've done is release it right as everyone got hyped up about this movie and demanded that it be released, that way when it DOES get released, everyone would immediately hop on HBO Max and watch it, either as a spite watch, FOMO, out of curiosity, or maybe genuine desire to see what this movie would've been like. The sudden increase in subscriptions and viewers would look good on the quarterly report, Zaslov could sit there and say "See, I was just pretending to be retarded to do some guerilla marketing!" and probably net himself a nice yearly bonus for this.

Instead, he's going to take the small amount he'll get as a tax write off, hit the delete button, everyone's hard work will be erased forever and Zaslov can continue to believe that he's the smartest CEO to ever live and is never wrong about his decisions while, like others have said, every creative person in Hollywood refuses to work with a guy who could potentially delete their work after….literally finishing the project.