LeBron James Talks About SPACE JAM: A NEW LEGACY, Revealing the Film's First Plot Details
Fans are looking forward to the sequel to the 1996 live-action/animation hybrid Space Jam, which has been headed our way, slowly but surely, for quite a while now. The upcoming film, Space Jam: A New Legacy, will feature NBA star LeBron James, as well as Sonequa Martin-Green, who will play his wife. NBA players Damian Lillard, Anthony Davis, and Klay Thompson will appear in the film along with WNBA stars Diana Taurasi and Nneka Ogwumike. Several more NBA and WNBA players, including Chiney Ogwumike, are expected to show up in the film as well.
The plot has been kept under wraps during production, but James recently made an appearance on the web series Road Trippin (via CB), where he gave us a few details we hadn’t heard yet. He said:
"It's not a sequel. It's called Space Jam: A New Legacy, it's not called Space Jam 2. There will be a basketball game, I'll say that. And there will be some people that are a little out of this world that we're competing against."
But he goes on to clarify that when he says people a little out of this world, it may not be what we are envisioning. He also talks about the tone of the film, saying:
"You can call them that/ They have a different name. I won't give the name. But it's more of a family movie. It's a parenting movie between me and my son, and me trying to demand my son to do something because I was taught that way growing up. Demand my son to play basketball. 'This is what you're gonna do, this is how you're gonna do it.' And me as a parent not listening to my son and not believing in what my son is actually great at. It's a tackling between me being a parent and supporting my son, and my son basically turning off at some point and me trying to regain that trust throughout the movie. Along with the great Bugs Bunny, and Lola, and Taz, and Tweety. All of them."
James then commented on the status of the film:
"I'm doing some reshoots for Space Jam this coming week. There's some things that we shot that we feel like could be better. So I'm going back on set this coming week before training camp. The beard was the same. It was a little shorter, they'll trim it a little bit, but I rock the beard in Space Jam."
Space Jam: A New Legacy will arrive in theaters and on HBO Max on July 16, 2021. Are you looking forward to it?