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 * For other uses, see Space Jam.

Space Jam is an American live-action/2-D animated basketball comedy film based on the Looney Tunes theatrical shorts from 1930 to 1969. It was distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures (under its Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label) in theaters on November 15, 1996. It was written by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris, and Herschel Weingrod, produced by Joe Medjuck, Daniel Goldberg, and Ivan Reitman, and directed by Joe Pytka.

Characters
Brandon Hammond (young)
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Michael Jordan
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Himself
 * style="background-color:#clear"| Himself
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| James Jordan
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Thom Barry
 * style="background-color:#d2d2ff"| Swackhammer
 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Danny Devito (voice)
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 * style="background-color:#aaffaa"| Danny Devito (voice)
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Locations

 * The Moon
 * Earth
 * United States
 * Jordan residence
 * Moron Mountain
 * Sludge Summit

Development
The origins of a team-up between Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny began in a 1992 commercial for Nike's Air Jordan.

Music
The music was composed by James Newton Howard.

Crew credits

 * Casting directors: Jane Jenkins, Janet Hirshenson
 * Costume designer: Marlene Stewart
 * Co-producers: Gordon Webb, Sheldon Khan, Curtis Polk
 * Animation producers: Ron Tippe, Jerry Rees, Steven Paul Leiva
 * Live action/Animation visual effects supervisor: Ed Jones
 * Editor: Sheldon Khan
 * Production designer: Geoffrey Kirkland
 * Director of photography: Michael Chapman
 * Executive producers: David Falk, Ken Ross

Release
Dates are in order of release:


 * United States: November 15, 1996

Everlasting influence

 * In the Animaniacs episode segment "Back in Style," Variety reports "WB Plans Pic Teaming Jordan [and] Looney Tunes." Michael Jordan then appears in a non-speaking animated cameo in the episode "Hooray For North Hollywood Part 2."
 * Several sequels were to follow Space Jam, with the only one having real progress being Spy Jam with Jackie Chan. But don't worry, because Jackie Chan has been in several spy-themed movies since that time.
 * The many attempts at these sequels were referenced in the Robot Chicken episode "Catdog on a Stick," with the segment "Welcome to the Golf Jam," which starred Tiger Woods with the lesser known animated characters owned by DIC, including Heathcliffe, Street Sharks, and Mummies Alive!
 * Joe Dante, director of Looney Tunes: Back in Action, was not a fan of Space Jam and set to make a more faithful adaptation, although Warner Bros. intervened heavilly on his involvment from beginning to end. There is a cameo of Michael Jordan in the movie via archival footage from Space Jam.
 * In Space Jam: A New Legacy, the long-awaited sequel that did get made ended up having no direct ties to the original apart from its name and the use of having a real basketball legend team up with the Looney Tunes stars. Bugs does however indirectly reference the first time he brought together a Tune Squad.
 * In promoting Space Jam: A New Legacy, Cartoon Network aired the movie Teen Titans Go! See Space Jam, which has the Teen Titans watch the original, which is interrupted by the Nerdlucks.

Home availability

 * In the United States:
 * In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
 * In the United Kingdom and Ireland: