LeBron James and theLooney Tunesgang are ready to hit the court in a plethora of new character posters forSpace Jam 2. Serving as a sequel to the 1996 classicSpace Jam, the new movie will see James picking up where Michael Jordan left off, teaming up with Bugs Bunny and friends to take on an antagonistic basketball team. James is featured on one of the new posters alongside Bugs Bunny, though both of their faces are partially obscured.
Meanwhile, Bugs is spinning a ball on his fingertip in another character poster of his own. Lola Bunny is doing the same in her own poster, showing off her new look that’s more “family-friendly” than the Lola we saw in the originalSpace Jam. The otherLooney Tunescharacters to get new posters include Tweety Bird, Daffy Duck, Road Runner, Speedy Gonzales, and Taz the Tasmanian Devil.
One character that isn’t featured is thecontroversial cartoon skunk Pepe Le Pew. Though a scene with Pepe had previously been filmed with singer-actress Greice Santo, the scene was nixed when new director Malcolm D. Lee took over the project. It was recently revealed that the skunk had since been completely removed from the movie entirely, not even among other cartoon characters in the background. He had been featured as one of the players in the originalSpace Jam.
On the live-action side,LeBron Jamesstars as himself with Sonequa Martin-Green playing Kamiyah, the basketball star’s wife. Don Cheadle, Cedric Joe, Ceyair J. Wright, and Harper Leigh Alexander also star. Voicing theLooney Tunescharacters are Eric Bauza (Bugs, Daffy, Marvin the Martian, Tweety), Jeff Bergman (Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn), Kath Soucie (Lola), and Gabriel Iglesias (Speedy Gonzales).
Space Jam 2follows James and his young son Dom (Joe) getting trapped in a virtual space by a rogue algorithm namedAI-G Rhythm(Cheadle), and the only way to get home is by teaming up with Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Lola, and the rest of theLooney Tunesgang to defeat the AI-G’s digitized champions.
Directed by Joe Pytka, the originalSpace Jamstarred Michael Jordan as himself, similarly partnering withBugs Bunnyand theLooney Tunesto take on a basketball team made of monsters. It was a big hit at the box office and is widely considered to be among the most iconic movies of the 1990s. There have been attempts for years at Warner Bros. to develop a sequel, with word of LeBron’s potential involvement announced as far back as 2014. Now that it’s finally becoming a reality, the NBA legend couldn’t be any more thrilled.
“It’s one of the biggest games, if not the biggest game, I’ve ever played in,” James toldEntertainment Weeklythis month. “The Goon Squad is probably the best team ever assembled in basketball history.”
Space Jam: A New Legacyis scheduled to be released on July 29, 2025, both in theaters and at home onHBO Max. The new character posters forSpace Jam 2come to us from Warner Bros. Pictures.
