In the 1995 film, Williams portrayed Alan Parrish, a man trapped for decades within the demonically possessed board game that gives the film its title.
“He built up a full-blown jungle house, similar to a Swiss Family Robinson situation,” said Black to THR.
With so many massive studio tentpoles springing up all over, you’d be forgiven for letting the gestating Jumanji remake slip your mind.
It’s possible that the grounded, recognizably human element of the story was what audiences like, but we’ll just have to see come December.