Jumanji (franchise)

Two children, Peter and Judy, find and play a game in which each roll of the dice brings the jungle from the game (as well as the creatures that live in it) to life around them. In order to reset the world around them, they must finish the game and make it to the titular city of gold. Afterward, they get rid of the game which is found by their next-door neighbors, two young brothers.

Brothers Danny and Walter, neighbors of Peter and Judy from the previous book, find Jumanji but ultimately choose not to play it. Instead, they find a similar game on the same board with a space theme, Zathura, which they begin to play. As with Jumanji, playing Zathura brings elements of the game into reality, and in order to set everything back to normal, the boys must complete the game.

Two children find and play a magical board game. In doing so, they release a man trapped for decades in its inner dimension and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.

Two young brothers are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is hurled through the depths of space by the magical board game they are playing. Furthermore, the brothers surmise the only way to return home is to finish the game.

Though there are no direct references to Jumanji in Zathura: A Space Adventure and the movie's plot is self-contained, the studio marketed it as being set within the same fictional universe, and is thematically similar to the other franchise installments. The film is based on the children's book Zathura, also written by Van Allsburg, which was a sequel to the Jumanji novel. Despite the film's placement within the same fictional universe, director Jon Favreau discouraged the notion that the film is a sequel, having not particularly liked Jumanji.[1]

Twenty-one years after the events of the original film, the board game has magically become a video game. Four high school teenagers are transported to the game's jungle setting and become the avatars of the characters they chose, and later discover another victim trapped in the game as well. The only way out is to complete the game and in doing so, they each discover the best of themselves and win with a newfound heroism to see the challenge through. The film served as a direct sequel to the 1995 film.

A team of friends return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own but discover that nothing is as they expect. The players need to brave parts unknown, from arid deserts to snowy mountains, in order to escape the world's most dangerous game.

In December 2019, Dwayne Johnson revealed that the next installment in the franchise would reveal that Jurgen the Brutal, the villain in The Next Level, was an avatar in the game, and that the identity of who was playing as the character would be explored.[2] In March 2020, Jake Kasdan confirmed early developments for a follow-up film.[3][4] Kasdan confirmed plans to maintain the core cast of the previous two films.[5] The following month, the filmmaker stated that the story for the next installment is in development.[6]

Jumanji was an animated television series inspired by the 1995 film which ran for three seasons from 1996 to 1999.