Info in Movie News | The jungle adventure is about to begin again. After years of speculation and teases, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has officially confirmed that Jumanji 3 will start production this November. The update arrived during a Q&A session at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) 2025, where Collider’s Tania Hussain caught up with the actor. The movie, technically the fourth installment if you include the 1995 original, continues Sony’s billion-dollar adventure franchise and will bring audiences back into the chaos of the beloved game world.
According to Collider, Johnson emphasized that the cameras are set to roll in November 2025, which secures Sony Pictures’ target release window of December 2026. While the new plot is getting the fans excited, Johnson went on to talk about his co-operation with Kevin Hart which has been going on for a long time. The two have been instrumental in the two movies, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), both of which reached high box office success. “Kevin and I didn’t have any dependencies when we met the first time and sometimes that kind of chemistry just takes place,” said Johnson. “He’s a good guy, and that matters. When you trust someone, whether in Hollywood or anywhere else, there’s nothing you can’t do.” As part of the TIFF event, he also mocked Hart’s stature by saying that it is usually when you are tall and you are in a short height, that you look taller, a simple goading which made all the audience to laugh instantly.
The Jumanji franchise has changed a lot over time with the five installments after its debut. The late Robin Williams-starring original from 1995 was about a magical board game that would release havoc in the outside world. The renewed series brought the idea way into the future by changing the board game to a retro-style console that could attract and suck in the players. Jumanji: The Jungle Gets Back to Work came with a new, and quite unusual, concept of the four teenagers who are playing a game, but the characters appear in the game, not the players. So the actors are Dwayne Johnson as Smolder Bravestone, Kevin Hart as Mouse Finbar, Karen Gillan as Ruby Roundhouse, and Jack Black as Professor Oberon. The movie’s combination of laughs, thrills, and touching camaraderie went over well with the whole earth, which made the global box office more than $960 million.
The sequel, The Next Level, was aiming to more than the original by bringing in new characters and modyfying the avatar dynamics, as a result, it made more than $800 million globally. At the end, there was an unexpected moment: just after the credits, it showed that the game universe was not only here but also starting to merge with the real world, teasing some important change of direction of the story. This cliffhanger was signaling that the plot could no longer be reliable by the same style and the fans have been there propping for the inevitable chaos intrusion into the real world ever since.
With Johnson and Hart confirmed, attention now turns to the rest of the ensemble. Reports from GamesRadar suggest that Karen Gillan and Jack Black are expected to return to their roles, while Awkwafina, who joined in The Next Level, is also a possibility. Regarding the younger cast that included Alex Wolff, who portrayed Spencer, although Sony has not done any official announcement, many insiders from the industry presume that they will be part of the continuation. These characters are essential to the franchise as they provide a counterbalance to the giant avatars with the more relatable and familiar teenage viewpoints.
Once again, Jake Kasdan, who has been the pivot of the whole reboot saga, will be the one to direct the movie. Kasdan's talent in merging the spectacle of a blockbuster with the character-driven comedy has been the main factor for the success of the movies. With Jumanji 3 he is expected to take the legend further while still maintaining the same laughter and chemistry as before with the fans of the reboot series. With the narrative likely to explore how the game invades the real world, Kasdan has the opportunity to deliver the most ambitious installment yet.
Sony’s decision to lock the movie for a December 2026 release is no coincidence. Both the movies New Level and Welcome to the Jungle were released at Christmas and made an excellent performance. These results were enough to suggest that the Jumanji series had established itself as a reliable family-friendly blockbuster. What's more, the franchise is thus far impervious to the definition of age boundaries since it offers fans of the first series nostalgia and kids new exhilarating stuff to discover.
Moreover, the rejoining of Johnson and Hart is almost like a ticket for another great box office performance, anyway, this time the stakes are higher. Hence the plot should find a method to fulfill the cliffhanger promise while at the same time delivering the kind of heart and humor that the mix is known for. The thing that makes the fans feel so excited is to picture the familiar characters seeing one another again, acquainted with the characters to be overcoming newstones in the world of Jumanji, which, being an unpredictable world, is pushing itself further into untraveled paths.
After the staging of the show, expectations leading to Jumanji 3 are climbing up. The hybrid of a creatively successful team, the multi-star cast, and the challenging new direction indicates the movie might be capable of redefining a modern adventure comedy once more. As for now, the time when the movie shoot gets underway in November 2025 is eagerly anticipated by everybody.
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