Opening Friday

Set in a shared Warner Bros virtual space multiverse, Space Jam: A New Legacy follows basketball icon LeBron James as himself and his youngest son Dom (Cedric Joe), who dreams of being a video game developer rather than follow in his father’s footsteps. When they find themselves trapped in the Warner 3000 Server-Verse, a virtual space ruled by the tyrannical Al-G Rhythm (Don Cheadle), LeBron must save his son by assembling and leading Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Lola Bunny, and other notoriously undisciplined Looney Tunes to win a basketball match against Al-G’s digitised champions on the court, the Goon Squad: a team of powered-up virtual avatars of professional basketball stars.

Space Jam: A New Legacy, a live-action animated sports comedy directed by Malcolm D. Lee, is a stand-alone sequel to Space Jam (1996), with basketball great Michael Jordan, and marks the first theatrically released film to feature the Looney Tunes characters since Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003), and like the previous hybrid films, is a combination of live-action, traditional hand-drawn animation, and 3D CGI effects.

Also starring are Khris Davis, and Sonequa Martin-Green in live-action roles, while Jeff Bergman, Eric Bauza, and Zendaya headline the Looney Tunes voice cast.