42 Wild Facts About Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Jumanji made our childhoods. Who didn’t want to play a game that turned your house into a wild jungle? Now the jungle is back in a new movie starring Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, and Kevin Hart. Since everyone is going ape for the film, here are 42 wild facts about Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle Facts
42. Sign of the Times
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is set almost 20 years after the original Jumanji, and times have changed. For Welcome to the Jungle, the Jumanji board game is now a video game.
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41. Call-Backs
There are call-backs to the original movie, however—like the treehouse Nick Jonas’ character lives in, which was built by Alan Parrish (Robin Williams’ character in the first movie), or the reappearance of the elephant playing piece.
40. Zathura
The original Jumanji was based on a book by Chris van Allsburg. He then wrote a sequel, Zathura, about a game that transports a house into outer space—but that was already turned into another movie, so the writers of Welcome to the Jungle had to come up with something completely from scratch.
