Dwayne Johnson Talks About New Jumanji Movie

The 1995 film ‘Jumanji’ starred late Robin Williams as the lead actor Alan Parrish. Sony Pictures is developing a new ‘Jumanji’ film which will star Dwayne Johnson and the ator has opened up about the project through an Instagram post. He starts off saying, “And the #JUMANJI magic begins. Excellent meeting with our director Jake Kasdan, producer Matt Tolmach, and our @SevenBucksProd team to work on our new re-imagining of this amazing story”.

Dwayne also shared that the movie will honour the great actor Robin Williams. “An important thing that I want to be honest and bring up is Robin Williams. The love and respect I have for this man is boundless. You have my word, we will honour his name and the character of “Alan Parrish” will stand alone and be forever immortalized in the world of JUMANJI in an earnest and cool way. I have an idea of what to do and I think his family will be proud”, the San Andreas actor stated.

He also remembered the first time he met Williams and shared, “I also think Robin is somewhere lookin’ down and laughing, remembering the first time we met backstage and I (for the first time ever) was a star struck bumbling idiot that couldn’t even get my words out. Idiot. He literally calmed me down w/ that smile and laugh. But that’s for another fun story down the road”. The original ‘Jumanji’ was directed by Joe Johnston and told the story of a magical board game.

Source: themovienetwork.com