Original Director Joe Pytka Claims Space Jam 2 Is Doomed

 

Speaking with The Hollywood Reporter, Joe Pytka was damning of Warner’s planned sequel, which last week recruited Star Trek Beyond‘s Justin Lin to helm. In fact, Pytka even went so far as to claim that Space Jam 2 was essentially doomed given the original was very much considered a product of its time.

He said “Don’t do it. It’s doomed. Michael Jordan was the biggest star on the planet. When we did Space Jam, there was a perfect storm of players and ex-players available Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing… They all had a persona that complemented the film. There are none around like that now.”

Truth be told, it’s hard to argue with the filmmaker’s logic; after all, few basketball players have ever come close to reaching Jordan’s level of fame but that hasn’t curbed Warner’s enthusiasm to fire up production on Space Jam 2, given that LeBron James is poised to shoot some galactic hoops for Justin Lin and Andrew Dodge, with the latter attached to pen the script.