The genie is out of the battle,
and now a variety of fans – NBA fans, LeBron fans, Bugs Bunny fans, Looney
Tunes fans, or just fans of the original movie with Michael Jordan – are building
up excitement for “Space Jam: A New Legacy.” There has also been plenty of
discussion, from the choice of MCU veteran Don Cheadle as the bad guy, to Lola
Bunny’s new design, to even a reported deleted scene featuring aggressively romantic
skunk Pepe Le Pew. All this and there is not even a trailer yet. But some new
info only stokes more interest as Warner Bros. unleashes its character stable.
Comic Book Resources tells us that “Space Jam: A New Legacy” will
be featuring a cornucopia of cameos, all drawn from the well of media that
Warner Bros. Pictures has control over. Director Malcolm D. Lee reveals this as
he talks about the massive virtual world that the meat of the film takes place
in. Just as in the first “Space Jam,” Michael Jordan was taken to the animated
world of Looney Tunes via a golf course hole, in the sequel LeBron James and
his son are abducted by a sentient computer algorithm into a virtual space of
multiple media.
While some may think that the
story of this movie might just be aping from Disney’s “Wreck-It Ralph” and “Ralph
Breaks the Internet,” Warner actually has had several recent blockbusters with
worlds full of characters from assorted IPs. In 2014’s “The LEGO Movie” there
were DC superhero minifigures, and in 2018’s “Ready Player One” from director
Steven Spielberg, the “Iron Giant,” Chucky the killer doll, Mecha-Godzilla and
a Gundam from Japan were in the action. Lee notes that some of the “A New
Legacy” cameos have key roles, but mostly they will serve as the audience to
the big basketball game in the film’s climax.
Among the IPs name-dropped for “Space
Jam: A New Legacy” include Warner-produced or distributed films such as “The
Matrix,” “King Kong,” “Batman” and even “Wonder Woman.” Speaking of that one, Lola
Bunny in the virtual space is even supposed to be living in Themyscira with the
Amazons. One can only wonder at what other cameo characters can be expected in the
picture when “Space Jam: A New Legacy,” starring LeBron James, Don Cheadle and
Sonequa Martin-Green, premieres this July 16.
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