Right. But yeah, this is the one moment where LeBron is offering something unique. WebS1: we have Ive seen Space Jam. Warner Brothers is so fun that he is actually the personification of everything that is bad about franchise filmmaking. S1: it, right? Yeah. And I absolutely think this one just did not have any of the fun charm of the original. Our producer is Morgan Flanary for Allegra Frank. This is a transcript of Space Jam . 26 "That's all Folks!" [It is nighttime, a shooting star is flying by and the moon is showing and there's a kid playing basketball this is young Michael Jordan and his father James Jordan comes outside] James Jordan: Michael? James Jordan: What are doing out here, son? It's after midnight. Is this real? S3: It was we have to we have to mention the one good joke, though, which is like in the middle of a basketball game, one of the Looney Tunes is like, I found him, I got Michael Jordan, were going to win. S1: Right. For those of you who dont know, Terence Nance was the director originally attached to this and then they, quote unquote, amicably parted ways with Warner Brothers on this movie. Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Austin Powers. Sounds good to me. Space Jam: A New Legacy [Transcript] July 17, 2021. As I understand it, that party was not really that amicable. The original 2D animation is the original original. S1: Nothing and why. Thats also a problem that we have with the current media landscape. Subscribe to our screaming, screaming serve as a streaming service, whatever. And then LeBron looking for his son, also gets sucked into the server servers. Space Jam: A New Legacy Space Jam: A New Legacy is an American live-action/animated sports comedy film produced by the Warner Animation Group and featuring Looney Tunes characters. Yes. Apart from that time he hosted Saturday Night Live or all of the TV commercials he appeared in including the ones with Bugs Bunny that inspired Space Jam Michael Jordan had very little acting experience when Warner Bros. placed him at the center of an $80 million movie. You play at least get one night. But even if they did, theyre not appropriate for children. "Michael would go up there, and everybody in town would come to play basketball there and challenge him," director Joe Pytka remembered. Black Panther filmmaker Ryan Coogler is producing Space Jam 2, and he penned the latest draft of the script with Sev Ohanian ( Searching ). [Passes the ball to him] [Michael shoots the ball again to the hoop and makes a shot, his So it would be fun for me to be angry with you if. Good luck out there today. Right. But Lola, I. I appreciated that Lola has made this hard turn into being her own character now. Yeah, its smart to say. Its just inserting every single property that you have into one movie to try to make people, like, more buzzed about. Can't believe some people think it might be real, though. WebVintage Space Jam Jammer Frisbee 133 Gram Shiny Script Kransco 1980 | Toys & Hobbies, Outdoor Toys & Structures, Balls, Flying Discs & Boomerangs | eBay! I was like, thats rude. Except that none of the other plotlines exist. The Slate Group LLC. Yeah. When hes playing the coach and his costume changes in every scene, like every time they go back to him he has a different costume and. Like Mr. Depressing because thats such a good movie and you did it like this. Oh my God. Right on cue the Tazmanian Devil slams into the enclosed glass sphere where theyre working. Its all pretty anodyne. This is hilarious. S3: All right. But inside the movie, youve literally obliterated it. And then it would be I would really have to think about it. But you kind of forget later on when it does really dive into worth celebrating Warner Brothers. S3: you do so big. S1: care. How are you doing right now? Jeffrey Jordan was the subject of local and national media attention as a high schooler, and had three of his high school games shown 14. Yeah. But yeah, we actually had footage from Mad Max. So then after Dom joins the tune squad, they win the basketball game and everyone goes, Oh, I guess thats the big day. Theyre like, oh, the way that we need to win the basketball game is by, like, breaking the game and making it impossible for Algy and the goon squad to cheat. And hes like, no cartoon stuff, do real basketball. But a number of promising stars rose up to fill that void, notably four-time MVP, three-time NBA champion, and occasional actor LeBron James. And theyre like, but were the Looney Tunes, we only know how to do cartoon stuff. Were not expecting a lot. S3: Its so weird because like LeBron is really the selling point of this movie. The algae has put together called the Goon Squad, which through using the technology that Dom has developed for his video game, theyve scanned in some other real basketball players and then like, given them weird animal powers to make them more powerful. That all fictional or did these Looney Tunes actually playing that game? S3: Tunes to stay at your house. And throughout the only thing that it does is to mock the very own existence of everything. "And then there was this big cooler marked MICHAEL ONLY." Very proud. The overarching premise was that Murray was quitting show business to play basketball, a sly but obvious crack about how, at the time, Jordan had quit basketball to give baseball a shot. Since this was the early days of the commercial, mainstream internet and high-speed service wasn't in wide use, the Space Jam site was rudimentary and simple, consisting primarily of press releases, some low-memory Shockwave-based games, and a cast list, all rendered in hard-to-read fonts against an eye-killing starry background. Please subscribe to the Slate spoiler special podcast feed. [Passes him the ball] Go ahead shoot til you missed. So I was just like, yeah, I just saw lots of QPAC. S1: Hes just suddenly there in Hollywood with all of his friends. (NO!) You must have been four. Like we were the perfect age for it. So its like, OK, Dom doesnt like basketball. I thought she was a cute little bunny and it was based off of Wonder Woman nineteen eighty four, which I thought was a terrible movie. The kidnapping scene, which is basically like the snap and The Avengers also insane to me because its like firefighters get abducted and then like some people on a plane get abducted. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Sonequa Martin-Green of Star Trek: Discovery will portray James' wife, and Don Cheadle is playing a part being kept secret. Y'all wanna know why? Yeah. Its kind of it was. While a recognizable star and capable actor, Knight wasn't the first choice to play publicist Stan Podolak. S3: the bad guy in this movie. Space Jam. WebAla Bahma (Cameo only in Space Jam) Bobo the Elephant (Cameo only in Space Jam) The Crusher Drunken Bull (Cameo only in Space Jam) Fifi (Cameo only in Space Jam) Hector the Bulldog (Cameo only in Space Jam) Mama Buzzard (Cameo only in Space Jam) Owl Jolson (Cameo only in Space Jam) Spike and Chester (Cameo only in Space Jam) I have to do our research. The movie runs for almost two hours. Posted by 8 years ago. It was just like, its not good, keep it looked cheap. Okay. Its all unrelated. Its like, oh, how funny to see an old woman doing things old people shouldnt be able to do. I feel like you dont just forget that George Michael they learned from the best basketball player how to play basketball and won a game not just on Michaels back. S3: Why is this right? Intrigued by the potentially lucrative marketing potential and already looking for a way to revive the largely dormant Looney Tunes characters, the studio signed on. Space Jam Wiki is a FANDOM Movies Community. Chuck Jones was an architect of cartoons. After going to all of this trouble, Camp and his cohorts found out that one crucial part of the project was yet to be locked down Michael Jordan hadn't agreed to star in Space Jam 2 yet. As an animator and director at Warner Bros. between 1933 and 1963, he helped to create and develop the studio's classic roster of characters, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, and Daffy Duck. "They didn't really talk to me about it," Camp told Animated Views. Yeah. His first big task? S3: Well, you say that, but theyre still making them. S1: Right? 18 Apr. So like we literally I mean, the fact that we kind of blew through this this plot, even though its almost two hours long sentences, so much because the plot is so threadbare. Because its like its like if they made a movie about Ted Bundy and then put Ted Bundy, its like, what are you doing? It is absolutely not real. Yeah. Were like not characters that we honestly like the target audience are going to relate to or want to buy merch. So like take all the Looney Tunes are old now. But like, you know, I can understand them converting Looney Tunes into 3D if this is like, oh, this is a new style were trying to get you accustomed to because all the new Looney Tunes cartoons are going to look like this. In other words, it's a typical '90s website. The more predominant. S1: Yeah, it would have been honestly reminded me a lot of the Pokmon movie When Ash Dies. A teaser trailer was set to drop on Instagram TV in July 2018, immediately after free agent James announced where he'd play the next season, but that was scrapped when that Space Jam 2 news leaked early. But this just like way more emotion. Computerworld Forever. S3: It is a pretty dumb movie. S1: is hes getting Sandfire like I was hoping that someone like, I dont know Lil Wayne or like Jay Z, like they had gotten some actual rapper to do that rap for poor. It is stupid. S1: look the same. Everybody get up it's time to slam now We got a real jam goin' down But the weird thing about that is then after LeBron goes through all these worlds and it ends up that they only save the Looney Tunes who are in these other worlds, they go to like Looney to general to like train or whatever. S1: Yeah. Fortunately, Warner Bros. balanced out the rookies with a veteran superstar, producer Ivan Reitman, who'd overseen some of the biggest comedy hits of the '80s, including Stripes, Ghostbusters, and Twins. Yeah. Theyre currently like making new Looney Tunes shorts, but those are Tuti and theyre trying to really adhere to the original merry melodies style. All the jokes are hinged simply on the fact that he is an overweight man to the point where Im like, you know what, good for one night for being in so many things in that time period where at least hes getting paid to be trampled on by the Hollywood industry to, S1: be blown up in one part. Yes. Either way it's incredible.but I HOPE this is legit. I mean, its like a tentpole picture. S1: Right. Right. Roll with it. But I, I defer to you in all cases. S1: I dont know. You all know, you played and in the original space jam, like Michael Jordan put them through frickin basketball speed camp, like he taught them everything. And. The the other thing I mean, yes, its the inciting incident of this is also why he has this grudge against gaming, I guess is the why LeBron hates it. I would have to see Wayne nine next to him. S1: It was like these are the biggest name actual actors in this film and theyre being dispensed. This is the most original stunt spec I've seen in a while. Youre giving it all up to play a basketball game again with this bench, huh? S1: Right. Not in this movie. It is a standalone sequel to 1996's Space Jam. Thank you for coming to spoil space jam with me. After going to all of this trouble, Camp and his cohorts found out that one crucial part of the project was yet to be locked down Michael Jordan hadn't agreed to That would have been incredible. Like the previous hybrid films, it will be a combination of Of course, Ash comes back to life. Its like you cant do that now because all the jokes are extremely fat phobic. S3: Yeah, its like you need to, you know, pick and choose what youre putting up there better because like, Im sure theres other things that are more like broadly appealing than A Clockwork Orange. S1: This is so much more fun than Space Jam new. And every time they come to him, I was horrified like, oh, there are there are cartoon characters. Like, yeah, its a big like if you dont have anything better to do with your time then why not. Once she left the room, he grabbed everything he could out of the cooler and distributed it to anyone and everyone. His son is having a blast hanging out with a computer like hes having the best time. "Initially, what they were going to do was just paint some lines on the parking lot and put a couple of hoops up," Jordan's trainer Tim Grover told Air Jordan. S1: The plane thing was really, really disturbing to me. Like it was a survey for the audience too. It was super hard to overlook the movie as anything more than a vanity piece. S1: rights, which is like also just such a silly Segway into introducing the Looney Tunes Part two, because the game he is ostensibly playing on his Gameboy is some random Bugs Bunny game. But I mean, it feels like the one idea left over that they just somehow didnt flag as being problematic. This references more TV commercials, which, unlike "Hare Jordan," weren't particularly popular. S1: That was that was a good reveal and something where you spoiled on that because I had no idea. Because Jordan would need to keep up his rigorous preparations for the next NBA session, he had to work out while he filmedSpace Jam, and the production accommodated by building him his very own training facility right on the Warner Bros. studio lot in Burbank, California. It is not worth watching. "I thought it was terrible," Jones told Booo Tooons. You would have laughed. Yeah. Y'all wanna know why? Yeah, I guess. S1: He could have been the Bill Murray ringer. It eliminates whatever style and aesthetic they were trying to go with for the Looney Tunes and now everything, S3: is the same. are very short, the actors moved around on their knees so Jordan's actions and dialogue would be spatially accurate after the animation was added in. Yeah. This looks really fake. "Originally, I just couldn't think of a bigger star to pair Michael with than Bugs Bunny, so that's how it started," ad man Jim Riswold told the Chicago Tribune. So strange and everything that way Knight is forced to do that movie is like extremely upset. Close. Thats the giveaway. Well, I mean, its also like, OK, so if a space jam poster exists in the real world, in the Warner Brothers studio, is LeBron really not at all aware of this movie starring Michael Jordan. Not only did that give Jordan someone to play off of, but it also made for correct eye lines. All right. Like a rookie making their debut by hitting a Game 7 buzzer-beater, nobody saw Quad City DJs coming. And just I love the silliness and the cast of Michael Jordan Way Night, Bill Murray. Space Jam (Sega 1996) 1.4 it start to download then in the last 800kb it stop and failed i have try 3 times 2 day . In his book Bird Watching (via ESPN), Bird recounted the making of Space Jam. That was like the one surprise where its like, ha ha. Im like theres a part. S1: No Granny theyre all old. I'm just -?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Obviously, this is a Warner Brothers like flagship. But Michael B. Jordan was a great, great joke anyway. FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY. "LeBron's got that going for him." While Space Jam boasts one of the biggest cartoon all-star lineups ever assembled in one place, its human cast is also impressive. I mean, it was two minutes of finding it sweet and then, of course, it was ruined, but like even she has some cool other gig going on, like everyone has a better way, S3: to understand where I was. Like the flight attendants, you need flight attendants. And again, yeah, we dont need a lot of plot. S1: So its he is actually Joy joyous to watch, but something that. And its like he clearly is like living it up. How could you possibly think this could be real? S3: Yeah, I mean, we get to that pretty quickly. But first, I wanted to say one of the reasons that its exciting that you are here is that you are a huge Oggi space jam fan. You remember, were like one of the sons is like just stuck in the fathers restaurant and keeps doing. S3: Yeah, its feel like hes like, what the fuck ever like, lets lets get that paycheck. We would have laughed. As Jordan is a very tall basketball player and Bugs, Porky, et al. Knight was apparently far down the list but also the only one willing to share the screen with cartoon characters who would upstage him, as well as playing alongside Jordan, who'd never starred in a movie before. So I was three. Space Jam: Directed by Joe Pytka. 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