The Jumanji franchise was rebooted in 2017 with\u00a0Welcome to the Jungle, starring\u00a0Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan. The movie grossed\u00a0$962.5 million on a reported $90 million budget, and its 2019 sequel,\u00a0The Next Level, was also a hit with a\u00a0$801.7 million haul.<\/p>\n
The movie ended on something of a cliffhanger when creatures from the world of “Jumanji” started finding their way into reality. Fans have waited patiently for news of a threequel ever since, and nearly six years after\u00a0Jumanji: The Next Level\u00a0loaded up in theaters, production has finally begun.<\/p>\n
In a first-look photo (first shared on ActioNewz.com<\/a>), we see\u00a0Dr. Smolder Bravestone (Johnson),\u00a0Ruby Roundhouse (Gillan),\u00a0Franklin Finbar (Hart), and\u00a0Professor Shelly Oberon (Black) in an American city\u2014cameras are currently rolling in Los Angeles\u2014at Christmas time.\u00a0<\/p>\n The question is, are they being controlled by players still, or have these\u00a0avatars now got their own personalities from the game they hail from? We’ve seen each of the Jumanji franchise’s leads inhabit the players controlling them, so that would be a fun twist as they enter the real world.\u00a0<\/p>\n “I can\u2019t wait for [Jumanji 3],”<\/strong> Johnson said in 2022 while promoting Black Adam. “I’m working with Jake Kasdan, who’s our director. \u00a0We’re doing a movie called Red One together. But we’ll continue to write, develop Jumanji 3. I cannot wait!”<\/strong><\/p>\n “Jake has a very, very special cool idea that for Jumanji 3 could be the finale. But in the spirit of that, it’s really special. I’ll just say that.”<\/strong><\/p>\n When we spoke\u00a0with\u00a0Madison Iseman over the summer, she told us, “My lips are sealed! I don’t know, we’ll have to wait and see, but there’s been some rumblings. That’ll all I can say right now…”<\/strong><\/p>\n Jake Kasdan returns to direct this untitled follow-up to The Next Level, which he wrote with\u00a0Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg.\u00a0<\/p>\n Nick Jonas, Awkwafina, Alex Wolff, Morgan Turner, Ser’Darius Blain, Madison Iseman, Danny DeVito, Rhys Darby, Bebe Neuwirth, and Lamorne Morris are all set to reprise their respective roles from the previous movies, with\u00a0Brittany O’Grady, Burn Gorman, and Dan Hildebrand joining them.<\/p>\n Jumanji 3 (or 4, depending on how you choose to count them) is set to be released in theaters on December 11, 2026.<\/p>\n
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