Sony Pictures revealed 4 new character posters for Jumanji: Open World, the next Jumanji movie, yesterday, each showing one of the game's heroes pushing open a manhole cover in a snow-covered city, starting with Dwayne Johnson's Dr. Smolder Bravestone. Check out the official post down below:
Every poster carries the same tagline, "Our world. New rules. One final game.," along with a note that the movie is "only in theatres Christmas in premium formats." Each one also comes with a joke profile card in the same format, listing the character's strength as "Coming to our world this Christmas" and their weakness as "You'll have to wait until Christmas."
The Whole Team Comes Up From Below
Johnson's Bravestone climbs out of the manhole in the city's center, with tall buildings and patches of snow around him. Karen Gillan's Ruby Roundhouse, still in her red top and fingerless gloves, got her own poster earlier in the morning. Sony posted Ruby, Mouse and Shelly within about a minute of each other at 8:08 AM MST, then saved Bravestone for 10:36 AM MST:
Kevin Hart's Franklin "Mouse" Finbar and Jack Black's Professor Sheldon "Shelly" Oberon round out the set. Both are in their explorer outfits, with Mouse in his safari hat and red bandana and Shelly peering out from under his own hat as he holds the manhole cover above his head. Snow lines the streets in all 4 posters.
Jumanji Breaks Out Of The Console
Sony's official synopsis says: "Our heroes have escaped the perilous jungles of Jumanji before, but this time Jumanji breaks free of its console, unleashing its chaos into our world." The studio calls Open World "the hilarious final installment of the globally beloved action-adventure trilogy."
That sets up a change from the last 2 films, where the players were pulled inside the game. The first look at the movie showed the avatars in an American city at Christmas time, which was covered in JUMANJI 3 First Look Finds The Franchise's Leads In Unexpected Surroundings - Possible SPOILERS.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle grossed $962.5 million worldwide in 2017, and Jumanji: The Next Level followed with $801.7 million in 2019. The Next Level ended on a cliffhanger as creatures from the game started to find their way into reality, and Open World picks up that thread.
What The Trailers Have Shown
Sony's most recent trailer, released on October 28, shows Jumanji and the real world colliding in Boston, with prehistoric beasts and video game characters loose in the city. Spencer, his mom, his kid cousin and a colorful local end up inside the familiar avatars, and this time they have to finish the game and defeat the villain before time runs out, without any extra lives to fall back on. The October 28 trailer from Sony is below:
Open World also faces a crowded December. It opens a week after Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three, which both arrive on December 18, and it is the first Jumanji movie in 7 years. Welcome to the Jungle made its $962.5 million on a reported $90 million budget.
Cast And Crew
Jake Kasdan is back to direct, from a script he wrote with Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, based on Chris Van Allsburg's book Jumanji. Matt Tolmach, Kasdan, Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia are producing.
Along with Johnson, Hart, Black and Gillan, the cast includes Alex Wolff, Morgan Turner, Ser'Darius Blain, Madison Iseman and Rhys Darby, along with Nick Jonas and Danny DeVito. The movie is rated PG-13 for sequences of action and violence and some language.
Jumanji: Open World opens in theaters on December 25. Sony is also offering Prime early screening tickets through the official site before the movie's Christmas release.
Which Jumanji avatar are you most excited to see loose in the real world: Bravestone, Ruby, Mouse or Shelly?
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