Jumanji remake with "The Rock"

OU812

Why? We don't need a remake of this classic

The Rock Confirms Remake of Jumanji

I like him, really enjoy his work, but Jumanji should NOT be remade.

ancapailldorcha

Is he intended to replace Robin Williams? If so, awful idea.

The_Valeyard

Stupid idea. Original film was grand.

The Rock replacing Robin Williams? No. Just no.

FunLover18

I'm not a fan of remakes and I loved Jumanji when I was a kid but I think this will be a new story based around the same premise which is OK. There was talk of Kevin Hart being involved as well. Provided they do something original with it (I'm aware of the irony) I'm OK with this.

Ben Gadot

I can see it now, The Rock will take what Robin Williams did and turn it into Tarzan.

Conall Cernach

I don't think it needs a remake but there are plenty of possibilities for sequels with other characters finding the game and doing something different. Maybe they could show more of the worlds within the game rather than just having stuff coming out of the game into the real world.

Myrddin

Yet another remake. Sigh. Jumanji remade starring The Rock? Wow, Ghostbusters 3 all is forgiven...

pixelburp

I don't have any particularly fond memories of Jumanji, other than it being passingly entertaining at the time & not overly memorable (boy, have the FX not aged too well), so I can't say I'm majorly steamed about this announcement. Can only imagine any remake, reboot, sequel is just going to go even more overboard with the CGI. The Rock seems like a genuinely nice guy, but his movies have never really appealed all that much.

RobbingBandit

There is a special place in Hell for people who don't like Jumanji. Mork and Mindy repeat land. Really hope they don't remake this.

pixelburp wrote: »

I don't have any particularly fond memories of Jumanji, other than it being passingly entertaining at the time & not overly memorable (boy, have the FX not aged too well), so I can't say I'm majorly steamed about this announcement. Can only imagine any remake, reboot, sequel is just going to go even more overboard with the CGI. The Rock seems like a genuinely nice guy, but his movies have never really appealed all that much.

pixelburp

RobbingBandit wrote: »

There is a special place in Hell for people who don't like Jumanji. Mork and Mindy repeat land. Really hope they don't remake this.

Well that escalated quickly: I said it was entertaining, but I'm not exactly remembering what's so great about it that those not sharing appropriate joygasms of nostalgia should be cast into hell. The FX were pretty great for their time & had a good pace to it that kept the excitement up, but little else that makes it sticky in the memory too much.

Harry Palmr

I read that as Jumanji remake of The Rock - suddenly my mind was full of stranger than normal visions :pac:

JP Liz V1

Nick Jonas is in talks to join Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black in the Jake Kasdan-directed reimagining of Jumanji that Sony Pictures has set for a July 28, 2017 release. Matt Tolmach is producing

- Source Deadline

So not a remake, a reimagining

I think with Rock and Hart attached it will do well financially

MEGA BRO WOLF 5000

I dunno...is Jumanji a "classic"? I'm not really in favour of remakes...but in this case the new one might be better than the old one. Jumanji is a bit meh really. It's not like remaking goodfellas or citizen Kane or blade runner..

BorneTobyWilde

It's like the remake of Charlie and the Chocolate Fat three .

Chain Smoker

Jack Black as an overgrown man child who got trapped in the game is fairly believable to me.

Tony EH

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

- Source Deadline

So not a remake, a reimagining

I think with Rock and Hart attached it will do well financially

I think I hate that hollywood BS term more than any other hollywood BS term. :mad:

Also, 'Jumanji'...really? That film needs remaking?

It wasn't that great the first time round. It was merely an ok film that loses the run of itself about 3/4's in.

And The Rock?

To hell with this planet. :rolleyes:

squonk

I remember going to see Jumanji in the cinema when it was out but I don't remember much about the film itself and haven't watched it since. I can only conclude that it wasn't a great film to begin with. Remaking with the Rock sounds like yet another throwaway film. I can't see myself rushing out to catch this really.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Jumanji was a bloody fantastic film - fair enough if it's not everyone's cup of tea and it might not be up to award winning standard, but 8 year old me loved every minute of watching that in the cinema, and still enjoy it when I re-watch as an adult... Maybe that's just nostalgia speaking, but whatever, childhood nostalgia is vastly underrated - it helps people lighten up a little...

That said, I'm not a fan of re-makes in general - sometimes it works, the 21 Jump Street re-boot being a prime example, but more often than not re-makes are just painful to watch and Hollywood needs to stop doing them...

FunLover18

So Johnson has confirmed that this Will be a continuation of the original's story in which case I would love if they got Bonnie Hunt back.

OU812

I can enjoy that. Make him a new character, maybe have some sort of not to Williams in here. Hopefully they're able to get both Bonnie Hunt AND Kirsten Dunst back (maybe her kids are the centre of it).

You know, this sounds like it could be a wonderful idea. Especially when how much modern graphics have come, can you imagine Jumanji now with the technology they used in Jungle Book?

FunLover18

Karen Gillan has joined. I'm really curious how they're going to get these characters together.

dodderangler

Does Hollywood not know there are other actors besides him?? Fûcking sick of looking at him on telly.

OU812

dodderangler wrote: »

Does Hollywood not know there are other actors besides him?? Fûcking sick of looking at him on telly.

Currently the highest earning actor in Hollywood. Makes the studio $7.25 for every $1 they pay him.

He's bank. That's why.

conorhal

dodderangler wrote: »

Does Hollywood not know there are other actors besides him?? Fûcking sick of looking at him on telly.

Aparently not. I see he has been cast in the remake of Big Trouble in Little China now, this reboot nonsense is just getting out of hand. I mean nobody told me Kurt Russell had died?

If they had to reboot that movie I could accept it if they did it as a TV series or somethin, by casting 'The Rock' it just shows how completely those behind the reboot don't understand the original or it's appeal in exactly the same manner as the studio heads that first released it didn't. They kept complaining that Jack Burton wasn't 'heroic enough' and a total buffoon, when the whole point of the character was that he was the comic sidekick who thought he was the hero (which was actually Wang Chi). The obvious choice for a reboot (too obvious probably) would be somebody like Chris Pratt.

ricero

I refuse to spend money to watch a rock movie in the cinema

FunLover18

ricero wrote:

I refuse to spend money to watch a rock movie in the cinema

Well I'm glad you deemed it necessary to pop into a thread for a Rock movie to tell us all that. Good for you.

dodderangler

OU812 wrote: »

Currently the highest earning actor in Hollywood. Makes the studio $7.25 for every $1 they pay him.

He's bank. That's why.

Couldn't care what he's on. He's boring as hell. He's in everything now and it's just boring. I won't be paying to see it anyway.

OU812

dodderangler wrote: »

Couldn't care what he's on. He's boring as hell. He's in everything now and it's just boring. I won't be paying to see it anyway.

Oooooohhhhh... edgy!

dodderangler

OU812 wrote: »

Oooooohhhhh... edgy!

It like the time when Adam sanfler films were popping up all the time and just got annoyed with it aswell. Mixed it up. God knows there's enough idiots in Hollywood to play the parts.

OU812

Here's a shocker. People like different things.

He's popular right now, he's being cast in everything because he's popular.

And he's not just popular with the public, the media love him too. He gives great interviews.

When the studios hire him, they get him 100%. He's never not promoting himself and their product.

His star will fade but that's about five years off unless he's caught doing something he shouldn't be doing. Then the next guy will be along..

pixelburp

While he might be a little omnipresent at the moment, he's definitely there on merit. I'm not necessarily a fan of some of his films, but he's always a charismatic, likeable leading man with a pretty decent range for someone earning his paycheques in blockbusters. His head for comedy and timing probably tracks back to his days as a professional Wrestler, and it's a definite bonus that by all accounts he seems like a genuinely decent person to boot.

conorhal

pixelburp wrote: »

While he might be a little omnipresent at the moment, he's definitely there on merit. I'm not necessarily a fan of some of his films, but he's always a charismatic, likeable leading man with a pretty decent range for someone earning his paycheques in blockbusters. His head for comedy and timing probably tracks back to his days as a professional Wrestler, and it's a definite bonus that by all accounts he seems like a genuinely decent person to boot.

I agree, he has great comic timing and was easily the best thing about Get Shorty, a real surprise in that role. He's also by all accounts a genuinely decent person with charisma to burn, but despite his omni-presence I reckon I've only ever seen him in a handful of movies. Tom Cruise however, who I genuinely dislike, is an actor I can't seem to avoid when I go to the movies because the b!"£ard consistantly makes good script choices and turns up in films that I really want to see despite him.
The problem with the Rock is that it seems like he just can't say no to a role, I wish he was more discerning with his choices because he could be a huge brand of quality, instead he's in danger of becoming a by word for me of films to avoid like Eddie Murphy or Nicholas Cage.

titan18

He's only been in one film this year(and that was pretty good) and next thing he's in is just a voice role. That's not that bad tbh. He's good and perfect for the role in the Fast and Furious series, and hasn't honestly been in anything too bad in a while. San Andreas and Hercules are better than they should be due to him in the main role.

Agent Coulson

FunLover18

Karen's outfit seems very practical.

Chain Smoker

conorhal wrote: »

Tom Cruise however, who I genuinely dislike, is an actor I can't seem to avoid when I go to the movies because the b!"£ard consistantly makes good script choices and turns up in films that I really want to see despite him.

the b!"£ard also is hugely involved in getting those scripts made into films since the early 90s. If you dislike him as an actor, you still undoubtedly like him a hell of a lot as a producer!




The Rock is just grabbing as many big roles as he can while he's still young enough to carry them. I'm pretty sure he has his eyes on a move into politics somehow the second his career starts to stall.
He's naturally funny and charismatic, very likeable, to the point that he can pretty significantly embellish an absolute turd of a film, but he's not someone who is going to add tons to higher calibre film as a lead (I'd say Justin Lin's F+F films and Pain & Gain are as high as he can get in those stakes).

johnny_ultimate

They missed a beat not calling this Twomanji.

They can redeem themselves with Juman3, though, which I am confident is in advanced pre-production as I type.

pixelburp

First trailer for this. It looks ... generic. Utterly cookie-cutter; so yeah, very Sony.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QKg5SZ_35I

Goodshape

Subtitled "Welcome to the Jungle"?

It's generic alright.

Mr E

Kids are going to love it.

Falthyron

I like the concept, particularly the contrast between the 'player's and their 'avatars', but like a lot of new films coming out I have to ask: "Why?". More so with this film as they simply could have called it anything else and it would probably be a decent without the need for a connection to some sort of a predecessor. If I have kids some day I will be showing them the Robin Williams film, not this.

Another one for the 'meh' category.

brevity

Doesn't really have the charm of the first one which I saw again recently and really enjoyed. It looks like it will be fun though.

Good idea with the video game.

Slydice

The international trailer is very similar but like.. it's a better trailer I think..

I think it's just down to how the ordered or timed what they showed

Jesus h Christ

ricero

Jasus thats shocking. Nearly got sick after watching that. Awful scutter. The first jumanji had a heart this just looks a complete brainless mess. Robin williams will be turning in his grave

OU812

They really should have just done this as an original title rather than yying in the Jumanji brand. Kids will love it & I'm sure it'll be entertaining, but Jumanji it aint.

Inviere

Good jaysus....

Osmosis Jones

Casting Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson to play characters trapped in their bodies seems like a terrible idea, the two of them have played themselves in every movie they've done. Jack Black's not far off that either.

Osmosis Jones

Also how subtle of you, Sony

JP Liz V1

Osmosis Jones wrote: »

Casting Kevin Hart and Dwayne Johnson to play characters trapped in their bodies seems like a terrible idea, the two of them have played themselves in every movie they've done. Jack Black's not far off that either.

The Rock is pretty much box office gold now and tbf he has the charisma and comedy chops to do well in roles

This does not look too bad, I expected worse but I agree that it could have been called anything besides Jumanji, reminds me of Pixels meets The Breakfast Club