The fourth installment of the Jumanji franchise is one of the most anticipated events in the cinematographic world for the next year. Having two box-office hits in 2017 and 2019, and the classic movie from 1995, the fourth one is getting all the fans thrilling.
Jumanji 4 is already in its developmental stage and, even it is a long way until we will get a release date, we can have an idea about when it will happen.
The previous two movies, “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” and “Jumanji: The Next Level” were released both in December, two years apart (2017 and 2019). So we might as well hope that the fourth movie of the series will come out in December 2021. Then again, that is only a guess for the moment, and it may be delayed for 2022.
The development was ongoing months ago, so the end of the next year should be a reasonable date to have it on the big screens though. We haven’t got a trailer so far, and this one is expected for next summer the earliest, that being around July 2021.
The cast will most likely include the stars from the 2017 and 2019 big hits. We know that the director and producer of the previous two movies, Jake Kasdan, is working on the new movie also. Another thing that was brought to the public is the fact that the core cast from the recent movies will take back their roles.
What does that mean? Well, Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Kevin Hart, Nick Jonas and Alex Wolff will likely star in Jumanji 4. In the 2019 movie so Danny DeVito and Danny Glover, and there are no reasons why that couldn’t happen again – the same for Awkwafina.
Then there is the plot. Dwayne Johnson, who plays Dr. Xander “Smolder” Bravestone, the avatar of Eddie, said almost a year ago that a new character might appear in the sequel, so the fans are up for surprises. Johnson was referring at the fact that in the next movie it will be revealed that the villain in the 2019 installment was an avatar in the game, whose real-life identity will be further explored.
But while the plot is yet unknown, the Jumanji game, its characters and animals might as well come out into the real world, like the 1995 movie with Robin Williams did.
And we can recall how the 2019 movie ended. Without giving away any spoilers, that credits scene left us thinking of such a similar plot. “Not much beyond what you can see there”, said the director about the ending of the “Next Level”, but we won’t spoil that. Maybe when the producers will announce the final official title, more will be unveiled about the plot. “Full Circle” may be an option, according to Alex Wolff.
The franchise had a hug success so far, with box-office hits at the moment. The previous three movies grossed a combined over $2 billion worldwide.
The story of the magical board game and video game (in the 2017 and 2019 movies) with animals and other jungle elements that come to life was also developed into a TV series. There were video games, mobile games, and Virtual Reality experience too.
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As for the movie, all we can rely on, beside what the director and the star Dwayne Johnson revealed, are fan theories with which we can go along. What we can really expect is that Jumanji 4 will be a similar blockbuster to the previous movies of the franchise.