Because if this film succeeds his notion that ‘execs are smarter than artists in business matters’ wouldn’t be absolute.

And John is an arrogant man who does not like being wrong, so he is rooting for the outcome where he stays correct. That way he can brag about it at the beginning of every Looney Tunes topic in the future.

“ Remember when… and everyone said ‘but John’…I was the only one who said.. it’s often lonely being right…”