Back when it was announced that Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan would be back for Jumanji 3, it wasn’t clear if the same teens from Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle would be turned into those avatars again or if new people would “play” those characters, allowing for these avatars to have different personalities.
One way Jumanji 3 could put a fresh spin on the material is by having the teens (who could be in college at this point) play different avatars, thus allowing the avatar actors to display different personalities.
Judging by this report, it sounds like Spencer, Bethany, Fridge and Martha will be major characters again rather than just make cameo appearances, so they’ll be sucked back into that crazy video game.