A New Legacyis rightfully being compared toReady Player Oneand theLEGOmovies after Warner Bros. dropped the firstSpace Jam 2 trailer. The 2018 big adaptation of Ernest Cline’s 2011 novel had a huge amount of Warner Bros. cameos for fans to geek out on, but theSpace Jamsequel may contain even more cameos from even weirder parts of the studio’s vast vault, as evidenced by the short trailer. Prepare for multiple viewings of theSpace Jam 2trailer.
The Iron Giantmakes a return in theSpace Jam 2trailer, looking a lot like it did inReady Player One. He’s joined by King Kong, who is currently destroying the weekend box office with his good buddy Godzilla. Cheetara fromThunderCatscan be spotted behind a ton of Hanna-Barbera characters, includingThe Flinstones, Yogi Bear, Jabberjaw, and more. Obviously, the Looney Tunes characters are all in attendance, including Yosemite Sam, who appears to misunderstand what LeBron James means by “shooting baskets.”
In some of the basketball crowd shots, one can easily spotMama Fratelli from The Gooniesstanding next to some White Walkers fromGame of Thrones, Mr. Freeze fromBatman & Robin, multiple versions of the Joker, including the iconic TV series take by Caesar Romero, and Jack Nicholson’s version from 1989’sBatman. There’s even multiple versions of Penguin standing on the sidelines with Agent Smith fromThe Matrixfranchise.
The characters fromScooby-Dooare also there, as isThe Mask, and the violent gang ofDroogs from Stanley Kubrick’s iconic A Clockwork Orange, along with some War Boys fromMad Max: Fury Road. It’s unclear why exactly two very violent gangs are standing on the sidelines with Pennywise fromIT, but Warner Bros. was clearly going for the gusto here.
The Wizard of Ozis represented in theSpace Jam 2trailer more than once. We see LeBron James soar past the planet ofWesteros from Game of Thrones, before going past an Oz planet. Later in the trailer, we can see a Flying Monkey cheering in the crowd, while the Man with the Yellow Hat fromCurious Georgegets lost in the background. It’s not clear, but it even looks like Pinhead from theHellraiserfranchise is taking in some cosmic basketball from the cheap seats.
Warner Bros. has gone all out with theSpace Jam 2trailer, which is giving fans something to dissect. However, there has already been some blowback on social media as a result. For the most part, people seem to be having a lot of fun figuring out all of the cameos in the trailer, which will likely lead to many more when the long-awaited sequel arrives in theaters later this year. Like the rest of Warner Bros.' 2021 releases,Space Jam 2will be available to stream on HBO Max for free. You can check out some of the cameos from the sequel above and below, thanks toBen Menkler’s official Twitteraccount.
