It’s official, Ryan Coogler and LeBron James are bringing back ‘Space Jam’!

Ryan Coogler is teaming with LeBron James on the long-anticipated follow-up to the Michael Jordan-Bugs Bunny hit Space Jam. This is Coogler’s first project since directing the record-breaking Black Panther. Read on from more details…

Here is what CelebNMovies247.com has learned about the upcoming Space Jam movie which has tapped Ryan Coogler to the upcoming LeBron James film.

Ryan Coogler will produce the new Space Jam movie and Terence Nance, who created HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness and directed the experimental film The Oversimplification of Her Beauty, will direct.

The Hollywood Reporter reports:

The director is among the industry’s most sought-after artists. Not only did Black Panther break ground as a superhero movie from a black perspective with a black cast, but it has set a number of box-office benchmarks on its way to grossing $1.34 billion worldwide, including becoming the highest-grossing film ever by a black director.

LeBron James notes that when he was a kid growing up in Akron, Ohio, where there were no black superheroes.

King James says of Coogler, who will shepherd production on the Warner Bros. project:

I loved his vision for Black Panther. So for Ryan to be able to bring that to kids, it’s amazing.

Space Jam 2 is tentatively slated to begin in 2019 during the NBA off-season.