As planned, the first trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy, the sequel to the famous film with Michael Jordan, has just been revealed. The trailer, released on the official YouTube channel of Warner Bros, showed scenes from one of the most anticipated films ever. In place of Michael Jordan, starring together with Looney Tunes in the first chapter, this time in its place we will find LeBron James, who together with Bugs Bunny and his companions will have to return to the basketball court.
The film, which also jokes a lot about the other IPs of Warner Bros e HBO (including Game of Thrones), will see LeBron James looking for his son, who has fallen into the Serververse, a digital universe populated by planets each representing an intellectual property of Warner Bros. The Space Jam, the basketball challenge, will then start. that will pit the Tunes against the Goons, a team made up of characters with strange powers.
This short video also shows how the film will play a lot on various types of graphics: let's see how LeBron James you first become a cartoon, and then go back to being human and let the members of the Tunes in 3D Graphics become, inside the playing field.
Finally, in the trailer we can also see the appearance of many other brands of the company: Flinstones, Iron Giant, the Yogi Bear, not to mention many other cartoons from the 90s and beyond. The trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy will be streaming on HBO Max and in theaters on July 16, at least as far as the United States is concerned. Meanwhile, here is the synopsis:
During a trip to the studios of Warner Bros., the NBA superstar LeBron James and her son accidentally become trapped in a world that contains all the stories and characters of the Warner itself, under the control of an omnipotent and malfunctioning force called Al G (played by Don Cheadle). With the help of Bugs Bunny, LeBron must navigate a world never imagined before, filled with iconic movie scenes and characters as they gather the Looney Tunes to save his missing son. Now to return home, Lebron and the Tunes must unravel Al G's mysterious plan and win an epic basketball game against the super digitized versions of the NBA and the biggest stars of the WNBA as the world watches.
