FOR THE WIN

Patrick Patterson wants Hollywood to scrap 'Space Jam 2'

Andrew Joseph
Toronto Raptors' Patrick Patterson takes a photo of a basketball at a media day for the NBA team in Toronto, Monday, Sept. 26, 2016.

The Toronto Raptors' Patrick Patterson doesn't want to see LeBron James in Space Jam 2. Actually, he doesn't want to see anybody in Space Jam 2.

Patterson wrote a piece for The Players' Tribune where he made a case to the Hollywood powers at be to completely scrap the concept of Space Jam 2 and let the 1996 classic, Space Jam, stand alone without a sequel.

He wrote:

I'm a huge movie fan. Movies are a big part of my life. This summer I even had the opportunity to help cover the Toronto International Film Festival for the CBC. So please know that I don't say this lightly: The original Space Jam is the perfect movie. The. Perfect. Movie.

It is a cinematic experience.

And that's why, for the sake of preserving its greatness, we must never try to improve upon it.

To make a sequel to Space Jam would be like trying to paint the Mona Lisa again. Sure, you can probably do it, but why the hell would you want to?

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Space Jam 2 project made progress in May when 'Bad Words' writer Andrew Dodge agreed to put together the script. James signed a deal with Warner Bros., in 2015, but there's still a ways to go until Space Jam 2 actually becomes a reality.

You can read Patterson's full column here.