A new Jumanji film is reportedly on the way with a release date already tentatively in place for December 2026. This is technically the fifth film in the Jumanji overall universe and the fourth Jumanji film specifically.
The new Jumani film would come to screens some seven years since the last one in 2019 with Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan all reportedly set to return for another adventure.
Related: ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’ review
Jumanji was first brought to the screen with Robin Williams in the lead in the nineties, the work adapted from the 1981 children’s book Jumanji by author Chris Van Allsburg. The first Jumanji sequel, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, hit screens in 2017. That film made a whopping $950 million at the local box office, while the follow-up ‘The Next Level’ made around $800 million.
The synopsis for the 2017 reboot/ sequel is as follows:
Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game. Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game.
Gillen told The Hollywood Reporter recently: “I’m sure it’s tricky to wrangle everyone’s schedules, but I haven’t heard anything about it other than the fact that we will be doing it at some point,” she said of the planned ‘Jumanji 3’. “So we’re all so enthusiastic about it. We all love working on those films, and it’s just a matter of when.”
Jake Kasdan will also return to direct the new adventure with Johnson, Kasdan, Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia and Matt Tolmach producing.
The new Jumanji film would potentially be the final movie in the current series.
