You know how when Looney Tunes like Road Runner would run somewhere and their legs would spin around really fast but they wouldn’t actually get anywhere before they would finally zoom off out of frame? We’re still in the legs spinning fast, not actually getting anywhere phase of Space Jam 2 development...
We’ve long been promised / threatened a sequel to Space Jam, and Warner Bros. is determined to follow through on that plan, recently tapping Furious 6 director Justin Lin to helm the project. But the director of the original film doesn’t think any of this is a good idea; in fact, he thinks WB should go ahead and pump the brakes on Space Jam 2 before it even takes off.
The original Space Jam was a movie that didn’t even make $100 million and was far from a slam dunk success (listen, if you think you were making it through this post without an abundance of basketball related puns, you were sorely mistaken), but the film became something of a cult classic...