With the recent success of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Columbia Pictures will move forward with a sequel. For fans of the original film starring Robin Williams, the new movie will continue to reference the original.
In a recent interview with Film, director Jake Kasdan says that the next film will most-definitely continue to reference the original:
Our hope is to keep a long continuity through the whole thing, even though the story that we’re telling in the second movie, the movie that we’re working on right now is much more connected to the first movie that I made a year ago than it is to the original. We love the idea of keeping all of this together and connected in some way or another.
Unfortunately, Jumanji 3 will not reference Chris Van Allsburg’s space-game-based movie Zathura:
I love Zathura but we haven’t really treated it as being quite related, directly related.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a fantastic film, although I did have my reservations about reviving the franchise this far into the future. I was wrong. Jumanji 2 is worth a rewatch, and easily one of the best films of the year.
