Lola Bunny will be hanging out with the Amazons when Space Jam: A New Legacy picks up.
"We wanted to meet her with the Amazons, trying to find greener pastures for herself," director Malcolm D. Lee told Entertainment Weekly. According to Lee, Lola will be reluctant to reunite with the rest of the Tune Squad -- particularly her old flame Bugs Bunny -- when the Space Jam sequel picks up. "As she says in the movie, there's more to her than just being a Tune."
Created for the first Space Jam, Lola is a female rabbit and talented basketball player who helped Michael Jordan and the Looney Tunes defeat the Monstars in a basketball game. Lee insisted on re-designing the character for the sequel after being taken aback by her "very sexualized" appearance from the original movie. "This is 2021. It's important to reflect the authenticity of strong, capable female characters," he said.
Wonder Woman's Amazons are just some of the many Warner Bros. movie characters that will appear in Space Jam: A New Legacy. Among the other additions confirmed for the film are Batman and King Kong, along with select characters from The Matrix. These Warner Bros. properties are all part of a virtual reality concocted by Don Cheadle's rogue computer program Al G Rhythm. Cheadle's antagonist then traps NBA player LeBron James (who's portraying a fictionalized version of himself) and his young son Dom (Cedric Joe) in this universe, for his own nefarious purposes.
The full synopsis for Space Jam: A New Legacy reads,
During a trip to the Warner Bros. studio, NBA Superstar LeBron James and his son accidentally get trapped within a world that contains all of Warner Bros.' stories and characters, under the control of a malfunctioning, all-powerful force named Al G. With the help of Bugs Bunny, LeBron must navigate through a never-before-imagined world filled with iconic movie scenes and characters as they re-assemble the Looney Tunes to rescue his lost son. Now to get back home, LeBron and the Tunes have to unravel Al G's mysterious plan and win an epic basketball game against digital gamified super-versions of the NBA and WNBA's biggest stars as the entire world watches.
Directed by Malcolm D. Lee, Space Jam: A New Legacy stars LeBron James, Don Cheadle and Sonequa Martin-Green. The film arrives in theaters and on HBO Max July 16.
Source: Entertainment Weekly