Space Jam is the metformin weight loss 500 mg most culturally and aesthetically significant film ever made featuring Wayne Knight in a supporting role. Upon its release it transcended the worlds of sports and cinema like no other movie before or since. It is perhaps most noteworthy for launching the athletic career of Michael Jordan. Prior to Space Jam, ‘His Airness’ was little more than a once-promising high school and college athlete that now bided his time toiling away in baseball’s minor leagues. Inspired by the movie’s realistic depiction of the game of basketball, Jordan would move on to the NBA and go down as one of the most well-rounded basketball players of the mid 90’s.
Following up metformin 500 mg price such a monumental film has proven extremely difficult. The trouble Warner Bros. has encountered in finding another successful animation/live action vehicle for its Looney Tunes characters is so well known it needn’t even be discussed: they attempted to harness the power of Space Jam again with the ill-received Looney Tunes: Back in Action, a film for which even Brendan Frasier’s supernova-like star power wasn’t enough. The problem was that it lacked a charismatic black athlete. To restore luster to the Looney Tunes franchise, a remake of Space Jam will be commissioned starring today’s most popular and transcendent action star/athlete – Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson. And in tribute to the former UFC light-heavyweight champion’s fighting career, the film will receive a new moniker: Space Slam.
Anyone with a business degree will tell you that the best way to ensure profit is to trim costs as much as possible while maximizing public visibility and marketing to the widest possible demographic. Other cost-cutting tools that will be implemented are taking short cuts during production, using readily available locations for filming instead of building sets, and eliminating any special effects or animation. To hasten the production timeframe and get the film into theaters quickly, Space Slam will be ENTIRELY LIVE-ACTION.
A live-action Space Slam allows us to drop the premise of Moron Mountain, an evil amusement park in outer space, and relocate to Six Flags Magic Mountain, a mismanaged amusement park in Valencia, California. Conveniently, Six Flags parks already hold the rights to the Looney Tunes for promotion and merchandising. With no traditionally animated Looney Tunes in the film, Bugs, Daffy, and friends will be portrayed by Six Flags employees wearing costumes typically used for photo ops around the theme park attractions. The costumed actors will be free to provide the voices themselves and improvisation is encouraged. Juan, the employee playing Elmer Fudd, dropped this gem on us during the first day of shooting: “You better not mess with my ride in the parking lot, homes, or I’mma bust a cap in you, mane…”
The plot will follow a similar course of events, with the Looney Tunes being imprisoned at Magic Mountain by Six Flags CEO James Reid Anderson, who has grown tired of paying them to make promotional appearances and now wants to just enslave them instead (you know, cost cutting…). The tunes convince Anderson to give them a chance at redemption if they can beat a group of his employees in a game of basketball. Luckily for Anderson, the poor working conditions and exposure to mold and carcinogens at his park have turned most of his employees into hulking, mutated monsters, with whom the Looney Tunes cannot possibly compete. The tunes know that they will need serious help if they are going to win, so Bugs and Daffy go out to abduct Quinton “Rampage” Jackson.
Another key to Space Jam’s success was the amazing chemistry between Jordan and his human costars. Wayne Knight will reprise his role from the original, but Bill Murray’s part will now be played by Amber Heard, because Rampage gots ta have that boo-tay, know what I’m sayin’? So Rampage and his friends, Wayne and Amber are out at Rampage’s new Huntington Beach training center getting in some light-duty sparring when Bugs and Daffy appear from out of nowhere to tase Rampage and blast him with pepper spray. They throw him in the back of Juan’s van and drive off while Wayne and Amber stand there, speechless.
Back at Magic Mountain, the Looney Tunes try to explain the situation to Rampage and he is PISSED. The best part of all of it is that even though Rampage is a mixed martial arts fighter, the tunes STILL WANT HIM TO PLAY BASKETBALL. You see, they all just assume he is good at it because he is black. Rampage explains that even white-ass Forrest Griffin was better at basketball than him when they played HORSE on The Ultimate Fighter a few seasons ago, but the Looney Tunes don’t get it. CEO Anderson gets word that the tunes are enlisting outside help for the game, so he sends out his employees to steal the talent and essence of five top stars: Lebron James, Dwight Howard, Ron Artest, Larry Johnson, and Liam Neeson.
Game night rolls around and the Looney Tunes have made literally zero progress with Rampage as a basketball player. Facing insurmountable odds and saddled with an unmotivated cage fighter with no skills, the Tune Squad takes the court to face off against the Monstars. Unlike the original film, Space Slam is not being made for kids, so there will be no rousing comeback for Rampage and the Looney Tunes, who lose the game badly. Wayne Knight appears to help out his friend Rampage in the second half, but everyone makes fun of him for being fat and he leaves. Speedy Gonzales suggests that Rampage simply fight the Monstars and knock them all out so they can all go home, but Rampage only fights for MONEY. Amber Heard arrives fashionably late after the game driving rampage’s monster truck. She brings him a case of his “secret stuff”, (a concoction of whey protein, acai berries, stevia, and energy drinks) which Rampage neglects to share with the tunes. Quinton downs all of it, hops in his monster truck, and reenacts his August 2008 rampage through Orange County right there at Magic Mountain.
Just as Rampage is about to get his stanky-leg on with Amber Heard, a furious CEO Anderson sends the Monstars to confront Rampage for a five-on-one beatdown. Anderson doesn’t watch UFC and also assumes that Rampage is a basketball player, so he is shocked when Quinton starts kicking all kinds of ass. Rampage beats the crap out of all of them except for Liam Neeson (it’s the Taken version). After wiping his hands of Rampage’s blood, being the gentleman that he is, Monstar-Neeson agrees to return the talent they stole back to the real Neeson, the NBA stars, and Larry Johnson. With all but one of his Monstars incapacitated and his theme park in ruins, CEO Anderson is helpless to all but watch the Looney Tunes, Rampage, and Amber walk free, even though they lost the game.
Space Jam ended on a high with Michael Jordan returning to the Chicago Bulls (although in reality it was his first game) and walking out onto the court with the team to a chorus of cheers. Space Slam will end on a similar note with all of the Looney Tunes and Wayne Knight in the arena for Rampage’s November 20th UFC fight against Lyoto Machida. Problem is, Rampage no-shows the event because he is in the back finally getting his stanky-leg on with Amber Heard.
