Warner Bros. Is considering making a Space Jam sequel. (Update: no they aren't)

My god, you two. Just make a clean break. Neither one of you have to get the last word in.

Hey this is between us lover, please don't interfere with our kissing.

edited 22nd Feb '14 6:27:44 PM by AfroWarrior27

I don't really care about the last word there, just that Afro Warrior realizes I wasn't calling him rude or anything. Get your facts straight, son

Besides no one like having the last laugh, that's like being the slowest to get the joke.

edited 22nd Feb '14 6:34:23 PM by AfroWarrior27

I'd respond properly as the situation merits, but I had a close Mod shave a week ago, so sadly, I can't.

I really love this song though:

So beautiful. ;)

edited 22nd Feb '14 6:49:10 PM by AfroWarrior27

Funny how the movie ends with the Nerdlucks joining the LT cast, yet, while Lola got a reinterpretation, the little guys have never gotten even a cameo or reference ever since. Not that it's a big loss or anything...

Their niche was marvin's niche, really. One of marvin's character interpretations was as something of a whimpy Butt-Monkey alien, which is what the Monstars were like too.

They really wouldn't have had a place.

To be fair, it seemed like Lola was the one they wanted to try to join the canon of LT characters in general, what with how they shoved her into everything else afterwards. The Lord only knows how many people perished from her grating personality in Baby Looney Tunes.

Oh dammit, now I have that show's background music stuck in my head. Again. I watched that show way too much when I was younger.

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On the subject of the sequel though, ehhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

I personally don't think it's good ideal at all.

edited 22nd Feb '14 8:48:49 PM by AfroWarrior27

Was there anything about Baby Looney Tunes that wasn't grating? Even when it stole from superior shows like Muppet Babies or Rugrats (that is, always), it managed to ruin everything that was charming about the original material.

...I liked Baby Looney Tunes.

I did too, until they ruined Elmer and Pepe's likeability.

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I didn't think Baby Looney Tunes was terrible. It was certainly no masterpiece and it certainly tastes like diabetes, but, in small doses, it's certainly tolerable enough, and I did legitimately enjoy watching it when I was younger. Plus, it at least did a decent enough job of teaching morals.

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The window for a Space Jam sequel has long since closed, I think. That movie was very much a product of its time and any sequel made so long afterward would most likely end up as a faded facsimile of the original.

That and considering how well Back in Action did, yeah. That movie didn't even manage to reach the box office.

I don't get it! I liked Back in action when I saw it. It was wacky and dense, but a good popcorn flick IMHO.

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People weren't interested in Looney Tunes around that time apparently. And critics hated that movie.

I myself find it to be okay though. I love that song near the end.

edited 23rd Feb '14 5:02:25 PM by AfroWarrior27

Like I said before, it was okay, but the humor was pretty toothless for the most part.

Exactly. It was like WB had a C-grade comedy script that they had been punting around, and someone said "how about we make this a Looney Tunes flick," and that's how they made it function.

I like the Elmer chase scene, the Roger Corman cameo, the Scooby and Shaggy bit proving how good a sport Matt Lillard was, and the music, but everything else was So Okay, It's Average.

edited 23rd Feb '14 6:35:12 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

The only things at all I remember from Looney Tunes Back In Action are that they used that painting gag with characters going in and out of famous paintings at a museum, Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner being a letdown, the characters being on a movie set at some point, and Daffy saying near the end, "What would Duck Dodgers do? Wait a second—I AM Duck Dodgers!" (The former few I had to strain to try to remember, and the latter one I only remember because I really liked that scene when I saw it.)

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The original Space Jam was little more than Warner Brothers waving the mighty Michael Jordan in the face of Disney. MJ had just completed the first Chicago Bulls' threepeat, and was pretty much a media darling. Warner Brothers, Paramount, Universal and Disney were likely falling over each other for the chance to put MJ in one of their films. And it's notable that Space Jam raked in most of its quarter-billion gross on the strength of Jordan; the Looney Tunes were mere extras. Even the DVD commentary spells out how much WB was kissing Jordan's glutes during production.

Good as Lebron James is, I can't see him, or any current athlete really, having the same drawing power. And we know that the Looney Tunes are cartoon short stars; they really aren't meant to carry a feature film for 80 or 90 minutes. The Return On Investment numbers are dismal, therefore the sequel won't be made.

As to Lola Bunny: Shortly after Warner Brothers got the option on Jordan, Mia Hamm made headlines in soccer and Sheryl Swoopes made some ink in basketball. Some meddling executive got the idea to take the already convoluted storyline, and add a female athlete rabbit love-interest to the mix. Now, directors Tony Cervone and Bruce Smith went to art school to learn how to "build" characters, including how to avoid creating a Canon Sue. The fact that Lola Bunny turned out that way was deliberate: Smith and Cervone expected Lola Bunny to garner fan backlash. When called on the carpet about why they'd created such a Flat Character, these two men fingered the executive that proposed the addition. "Wasn't our idea, Chief. That was Wonderball, here." And just like that, a stuffed suit got set out at the curb. Fortunately, The Looney Tunes Show has rebooted Lola's character into a Screwy Squirrel clone, very much like the origins of Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny.

And Baby Looney Tunes was never meant for cartoon fans; it was meant to compete with the Muppet Babies and the Disney toddlers. It's mindless pablum to supply the Great American Surrogate Parent: the Boob Tube.

But that show hadn't been on the air in like 20 years by the time it premiered.

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So as you may have heard by now (I dunno, this is the first time I am visiting this thread), the rumor is false, in that James will not be in Space Jam 2, and indeed, there's no word yet on whether or not this is even going forward. I still think it's being shopped around though.