Showing off nice things is a human impulse on some deep level.īut forgiving giant corporations for behavior we might excuse in a single human being is rarely a good idea. I’ve spent much of my adulthood amassing a BluRay collection that is maybe a little too thorough and increasingly filled with movies I haven’t watched but like to have on my shelf for vague status reasons. I’m not letting myself off the hook in this regard. But it’s so, so easy for that impulse to become all about ownership, about having something that nobody else can. The impulse to collect might start as appreciation, a love of antique rifles or cool cars or avant-garde sculpture. In my town, the flaunting usually took the form of guns or cars, but it’s easy to think of rich people who, say, buy lots of fine art. If you grew up in a town or neighborhood like the one I grew up in - small and cloistered - you probably knew one or two people who were well-off and flaunted it by collecting something. But when looking at other major films that have done something similar in just the last few years - notably Warner Bros.’ own Ready Player One and Disney’s Ralph Breaks the Internet - what seems to be happening with Space Jam 2 becomes a lot harder to divorce from the tendency the richest of the rich have to show off all their toys in the hope that onlookers will be impressed. Such a vast and random smattering of characters you might already be familiar with can feel like a giant corporation is simply vomiting up every single piece of intellectual property it has ever devoured. (There are far, far more Easter eggs that trailer sleuths have picked up on, but the ones I’ve listed here are a representative sample.)Ĭlockwork Orange guys in Space Jam 2 confirmed /ZBBFV5QSeh- ben mekler April 3, 2021 ![]() The Iron Giant, King Kong, and Fred Flintstone all appear, and eagle-eyed viewers have caught glimpses of everyone from the sneering Droogs of A Clockwork Orange to Danny DeVito’s and Burgess Meredith’s takes on the Batman villain The Penguin among the game’s spectators. ![]() The Game of Thrones planet is even helpfully labeled “Game of Thrones.”īut that brief moment has nothing on one that presumably teases the movie’s climax, when various representatives of WarnerMedia’s many corporate subsidiaries show up to the big game. Early in the trailer, as James flies through said Serververse, he passes two planets marked with visual iconography making clear they represent Game of Thrones and The Wizard of Oz, two properties owned by WarnerMedia, the parent company of Warner Bros., which is producing Space Jam: A New Legacy. No, what’s important is what exists within the Serververse. To save his son, who has been kidnapped by the ruler of something called “the Serververse,” the superstar must win a game of basketball against the “Goon Squad.” James’s teammates are, of course, the Looney Tunes.īut what’s important about Space Jam 2 isn’t the attempt to riff on the first movie’s premise. The upcoming film, a follow-up to the mediocre 1996 “Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes characters play basketball” movie that is much loved by some (for some reason), strands LeBron James in Looney Tune world, where he becomes a cartoon. The trailer for Space Jam: A New Legacy underlines the dark horror that animates too much of Hollywood right now - and, honestly, too much of capitalism right now.
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