Jumanji 4
 

Sony has finally announced another film for the franchise. It is scheduled for release on December 11, 2026.

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/ju...-johnson-sony/

I appreciate that you numbered it correctly.

Of course I have a soft spot for the Robin Williams one. I watched the first Jack Black/Rock one and decided it wasn't for me, didn't watch the next one. Doubt I'll watch this either.

It's set to release eight years ago? Boy, I better not miss it!

I’ve seen them all in order but I like the sequels better. I really enjoyed them. The original is good too I just don’t really have nostalgia for it because I watched it as an adult.

Would have been great if Robin Williams was still alive and could have appeared again though. All them.

The Next Level ended with Jumanji invading the real world again so it’s interesting to see what they do because the main cast is really about them appearing as avatar characters.

Thanks for pointing that out.

I got the number of the film in the franchise right, which is something the media failed at, but I got the year wrong.

It kind of goes like this:

Jumanji: Great concept, great cast, very well loved.

Jumanji 2: Decent legacy sequel to the original. It's not particularly deep but everyone seemed to be having fun and it's a little infectious.

Jumanji 3: We just got a retread of Jumanji 2, and not even that long after it. Just the same elements in a jar, shaken up and poured out again.

Someone on BluRay was upset they called this part 3 saying they were shoving the original aside.

I said the same happened with Ghostbusters...Frozen Empire was often referred to as GB Afterlife Sequel. Ghostbusters 4 would have been easier to type while being correctly numbered.

Yeah, but... Frozen Empire is more like a GB3 than Afterlife was, really. Afterlife is like this pseudo coda/prologue piece in between. Like if there was a Jurassic Park 3.5 where the characters mourned the death of some character from Jurassic Park 1-3, then we went into Jurassic World... Jurassic World would be the Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

Ya I kind of agree but as far as the movies go it’s the 4th in continuity.

I think Afterlife can still be viewed as GB3. They’re picking up where Egon left off and teaming up. They just aren’t running a business.

I get it, it just doesn't totally sit right. I've done 2 marathon watchings so far of all 4 movies and Frozen Empire "feels" so much more organic to 1 and 2 than Afterlife, like a new chapter in the same book. Afterlife is good, but it feels like something else.

Starts filming in November with the Rock.

https://www.darkhorizons.com/quick-n...er-alchemised/

But... isn't the Rock a skeleton lately? Have you seen him of late? He's really going to pack on all that muscle back in 2 months?

So it'll just be a third Rock Jumanji movie? Feels like Zathura is more of a sequel to Jumanji than this Rock Jumanji trilogy.

Maybe, but oof... look at that Zathura box office. They probably lost 35 million on it.

https://i.ibb.co/nMYK48JW/zath.jpg

I'm shocked the "Video Game" sequels really made that much.

Do people just love them because of the cast or something?

They're pretty stupid movies but there is a kind of infectious "wholesomeness" and "dumb fun" to them.

This next one won't just be another "transported into the game" story. The cast is really good though. Saw Zathura a few months ago and it was pretty good.

I just thought of something. They should make a movie accurate Jumanji board game that uses augmented reality on your cell phone/tablet for all the animals and threats. That'd be cool.

A video game based on the sequels can just be straight VR. I'm aware there's a Jumanji VR attraction and a VR game from a some years ago.

Filming begins next month, and Brittnay O'Grady has joined the cast.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...ng-1236398003/

Production will begin in California.

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/c...-2-1236557293/

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson said this will be the final film for him and this cast.

https://comicbook.com/movies/news/ne...news-about-it/

The first image has been released.

https://screenrant.com/jumanji-4-first-set-photo/