Don Cheadle is a dastardly A.I. supervillain who kidnaps LeBron's son in Space Jam: A New Legacy trailer
The stakes are high in the sequel to the 1996 cult classic film.
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They’re playing basketball, we love that basketball! The trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy gives us a better picture of what LeBron James and The Looney Tunes are up against 25 years later.
The stakes are high, because Don Cheadle’s kidnapped LeBron James’ son Dom. The father-son duo get sucked into something the Warner 3000 entertainment calls the “server-verse,” because Don Cheadle’s character (called AI-G Rhythm) envies James’ Instagram followers. Trapped in digital space, James (playing himself) assembles the unruly Tune Squad once more for an inter-dimensional game of basketball. It’s Tunes v. Goons, and the Tunes must save themselves from being deleted forever–oh and help James get his son back. This time they will not face the iconic and ripped Monstars, but A.I.’s digitized “champions on the court.” It’s definitely way less catchy, but with all of the Warner Bros. franchise cameos in the first trailer, there’s a shot they will make another appearance.
Longtime voice actor Jeff Bergman will voice Bugs Bunny, with the Zendaya voicing Lola Bunny. On that note, let’s all chill on Lola Bunny’s new figure. They made an animated rabbit in a children’s film less curvy and “sexy” this time around, so there’s no need for panic or to further confess your attraction to the original Lola Bunny.
Other cast members include Khris Davis (Judas And The Black Messiah, Atlanta), Sonequa Martin-Green (The Walking Dead, Star Trek: Discovery), newcomer Cedric Joe, and Eric Bauza (Looney Tunes Cartoons).
The sequel somehow manages to be even more over-the-top than the plot of the original 1996 film, starring Michael Jordan as a movie’s star professional basketball player. In case you forgot, during the first Space Jam, Michael decides to spend his retirement saving the Tune Squad from the ill fate of being the mascots for the literal Moron Mountain, a theme park run by Danny Devito.
We can watch all of this unfold in theaters July 16.
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Spoiler Alert: The Monstars also get sick of Lebron’s flopping and whining.
Yeeks, the uncanny valley of that video thumbnail. Daffy, Foghorn, Wile E. and maybe Porky look okay. But the others, ESPECIALLY Lola, look lousy.Also, all these modern phrases (“That happened”/”Haters gonna hate”) do not sound right coming from the Looney Tunes.
Especially considering those phrases will be played out before this movie hits video.
They’ve already been played out for a long time.
i saw the original space jam 3 times in the theatre as a kid and this looks just as dumb and mercenary. can’t wait!
Isn’t it “AL” G. Rhythm, as in “algorithm?”
Danny Devitos Penguin taller than Arnolds Mr. Freeze haha.
To the shithead in the greys stalking my comments: Why should I believe anything you have to say about an accusation of sexual assault or gaslighting happened when you’re the one spamming videos about how Woody Allen is innocent…?
Lucky LeBron got knocked out of the playoffs so early so he can rescue him…..
Unless Lola is as great as she was in the Looney Tunes show from 2011-2012 I will be sad. Don’t care about her look but man Looney Tune show made her the star!It’s Daffy’s turn, it has to be him vs. Everyone at the end! Give Daffy the rock! 😉
Kristen Wiigs best work
She was wonderful! Her and Tina the Duck on that show to counter act Bugs and Daffy were great.
Daffy got his big moment to save the day in Back in Action.
The lack of snark in this article makes me believe several “sponsored-but-not-sponsored’ follow-up articles are in the works.
Man the ‘Goon Squad’ character designs look lame as hell. How is this a $100+ million movie?
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Because the big number doesn’t necessarily mean it was well-spent?
Last week the AV Club ran an article about Ellie Kemper’s “racist past”, because in 1999 she attended a beauty pageant that stopped being segregated 20 years before she participated.This week, we get a trailer for a new Looney Tunes movie with no mention of the fact that many of their 1930s and 1940s cartoons are so appallingly racist that I don’t even feel comfortable posting screenshots of them here.My point is not that we need to endlessly debate, shame, or scorn any piece of pop culture that’s more than 20 years old and thus probably has some “problematic” elements. And it’s not to stir up a bullshit controversy against Lebron James, Don Cheadle, or anybody else involved in this film for their participation. I’m mentioning it to point out the disgusting level of hypocrisy found in the uber-woke virtue signaling mentality of this site’s writers.
#unbreakkimmyschmidt
The worst part is that for all their efforts, they’re actively deterring people like you, which is probably half of this community, from more progressive politics.
Let’s not forget Lebron James’ part in all this: I once thought of him as an admirable social advocate, willing to take stark, public political stances where previous NBA icons (e.g. Michael “Republicans buy sneakers too” Jordan) did not. I realize now James’ social advocacy is a paper tiger, extending only so far as it doesn’t compromise his paycheck. The NBA fanbase skews liberal and forgiving, while the Chinese Communist regime is neither.
This looks really dumbOf course the original movies was also really dumb too so I am not sure what I expected
WHERE’S MY LOONEY TUNES: BACK IN ACTION SEQUEL, DANG IT?
The Zendaya is voicing Lola Bunny?! THE Zendaya?! Are you kidding me?!Who cares? It’s not like she’s some amazing actress or something. I probably wouldn’t even know who she was if she weren’t (horribly mis)cast in the MCU Spider-Man movies.