Looney Tunes: Back in Action is a 2003 American live-action/animated comedy film produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the second theatrical feature film in the Looney Tunes franchise and was directed by Joe Dante from a screenplay by Larry Doyle. Brendan Fraser Jenna Elfman and Steve Martin star in the film; Timothy Dalton Heather Locklear and Bill Goldberg appear in supporting roles while Joe Alaskey leads the voice cast. 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 (Martin) 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 (Elfman) on their journey to thwart the Chairman's plot which doubles as a mission to rescue the former's abducted father Damian (Dalton).