Sony Pictures Releasing has dropped the first trailer for Jumanji: Open World, the final instalment of this trilogy.
The synopsis of this trilogy-ender seems to change things up a bit: after having “escaped the perilous jungles of Jumanji before, this time Jumanji breaks free of its console, unleashing its chaos into our world.”
This film sees the video game avatars, played by Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan, appear in the same reality as our real human characters, played by Alex Wolff, Morgan Turner, Madison Iseman, and Ser’Darius Blain. Awkwafina, Danny DeVito and pop star Nick Jonas also return to their roles. Dwayne Johnson takes up a role as a producer on this one.
This film is once again directed by Jake Kasdan, who directed the previous two instalments, 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and 2019’s Jumanji: The Next Level. Kasdan is co-writing the film alongside Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, who have penned all of this trilogy so far.
The concept of Jumanji is based on the Chris Van Allsburg children’s picture book, which follows two siblings finding an enchanted board game that opens a door to a magical world when weird things begin to happen. The most famous and faithful adaptation of the source material is the 1995 Joe Johnston film just titled Jumanji, starring Robin Williams and a young Kirsten Dunst. Chris Van Allsburg will act as an executive producer on this film.
This more modern trilogy swaps out the board game for a video game console instead.
Jumanji: Open World will be released in cinemas this Christmas.
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