Dwayne Johnson: nieuwe Jumanji zal eer doen aan Robin Williams

In een nieuwe Instagram post bespreekt Dwayne Johnson de bedenkingen van de Jumanji fans en heeft hij het over nieuwe details. In het bijzonder heeft hij het over Robin Williams’ optreden in de klassieker uit 1995. Johnson zegt:

“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.

I felt like in order to craft something cool we should begin where it all started. Award winning writer Chris Van Allsburg’s source material of JUMANJI. Chris also wrote THE POLAR EXPRESS (later adapted by Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks) and has a very special & magical way of storytelling.

I’m feelin’ good and confident stepping into these shoes as a producer as well as actor to bring you something great that you and your entire fam can enjoy.

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 honor 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. 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.

We got a great team assembled already over at our home base of SONY and now we build from here.

Here’s another fun part… in the original movie there were three big roles. In our new story there’s now FIVE. Been so damn cool to see all my actor buddies push their projects aside so hopefully they can come play in our world. Should have cool casting announcements this week. Will keep you posted.”

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. I felt like in order to craft something cool we should begin where it all started. Award winning writer Chris Van Allsburg’s source material of JUMANJI. Chris also wrote THE POLAR EXPRESS (later adapted by Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks) and has a very special & magical way of storytelling. I’m feelin’ good and confident stepping into these shoes as a producer as well as actor to bring you something great that you and your entire fam can enjoy. 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 honor 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. 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. We got a great team assembled already over at our home base of SONY and now we build from here. Here’s another fun part… in the original movie there were three big roles. In our new story there’s now FIVE. Been so damn cool to see all my actor buddies push their projects aside so hopefully they can come play in our world. Should have cool casting announcements this week. Will keep you posted. #TheMagicBegins #JustPressStart #JUMANJI

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Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher, Sex Tape) zal de remake van de familiefilm Jumanji regisseren. Hij zal dit doen op basis van het scenario van Scott Rosenberg en Jeff Pinkner. Dit scenario is gebaseerd op een draft van de originele schrijvers Chris McKenna en Erik Sommers en het boek van Chris Van Allsburg. De Jumanji-remake biedt een nieuwe blik op het kinderboek uit 1985, waarin een magisch bordspel ervoor zorgt dat jungleplanten en -dieren een Amerikaanse buurt terroriseren.

De oorspronkelijke film uit 1995 met Robin Williams was een grote hit. Deze vertelt over Alan Parrish die Jumanji, een mysterieus en reuzespannend spel, ontdekt. Wanneer Alan het samen met zijn vriendinnetje Sarah gaat spelen, ontdekt hij, te laat, dat het spel bovennatuurlijke krachten heeft. Door een ongelukkige worp van de dobbelstenen wordt hij de jungle van Jumanji ingezogen. Daar blijft hij 26 jaar lang opgesloten tot hij door twee nietsvermoedende kinderen wordt bevrijd. Samen met Judy en Peter moeten de inmiddels volwassen geworden Alan en Sarah het spel uitspelen.

De Jumanji remake zal vanaf 28 juli 2017 in de bioscopen te zien zijn.