Hence why when it was important for the creative team made sure that for Welcome to the Jungle, the “spirit of the original movie flowed through as a continuation of the Jumanji story.”
On top of all this, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’s being released only days before Christmas is fitting in Johnson’s opinion, as he says that the sequel “encapsulates what holiday spirit really means.”
But at the beginning of the clip, Dwayne Johnson talks about the “tremendous amount of love and reference” he has for the original movie, as well as what Robin Williams meant to him and his family.
In case you haven’t seen any of the Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle previews that have been released this year, the latest video for the sequel from Sony does a good job of laying out the premise of this story, which takes place 20 years after the first Jumanji.
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JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE Vignette – “Evolution”