The star of the film will be LeBron James, who will play himself. Together with his son Dom (Khris Davis), he will be trapped in the digital world by an evil artificial intelligence (Don Cheadle). Your only chance to break free will, of course, be a basketball game featuring Bugs Bunny and the rest of the animated pack. This “digital world” is referred to here as “Warner 3000 Entertainment Sever-verse”, so it’s no wonder that the film will not lack references to a number of movies from the Warner Bros. studio catalog. The creators announce allusions to Batman, Mad Max and Casablanca .
Meanwhile, producer Ryan Coogler promises that the film will be a story about fatherhood. LeBron James echoes him:
There are parents who put pressure on their children to follow in their footsteps. However, you need to keep an open mind and help them become who they dream of.
The director is Malcolm D. Lee, and it will also feature other NBA players: Anthony Davis, Klay Thompson, Damian Lillard, Draymond Green and Chris Paul. LeBron James will have Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and other famous animated characters from Warner Bros. on his team.
Space Jam: New Legacy – Lola is “not sexy enough”?
Such a rather absurd-sounding question appeared on Twitter when Entertainment Weekly and LeBron James shared the first official frames from the film. Famous and popular characters from Looney Tunes will return in the film , and each of them has undergone a kind of metamorphosis – some bigger, some smaller.
The new project of Lola’s bunny sparked the discussion. Already in 1996, one of the animators of the first part of the Space Jam, Tony Cervone, admitted bluntly that the female body parts of the characters were “specially curled”. The creators of the new installment of the series did not like it, who decided to “not sexualize” it and greatly changed its design.
Lola Bunny redesign from 1996 > 2021 pic.twitter.com/Uc4uBX7FCT
— SB® (@drakecereal) March 4, 2021
The director of Space Jam: A New Legacy , Malcolm D. Lee was interviewed by Entertainment Weekly in which he commented on the character.
I was very surprised to see how “defiant” this character was in the original. We decided that we had to thoroughly modernize it. We are in 2021. It’s important to show strong, independent female characters.
The movie Space Jam: New Legacy will hit the HBO Max platform on July 16, 2021 . The first official video promoting the production should also appear soon.
