The fourth movie within the franchise (if one consists of Robin Williams’ 1995 outing) is about to launch throughout subsequent yr’s vacation season.
Dwayne Johnson is on the media circuit at TIFF for his UFC biopic movie, The Smashing Machine, however that didn’t cease him from giving a fast—however essential—replace to his reboot blockbuster sequence, Jumanji.
In line with Display screen Rant, Johnson introduced {that a} fourth installment within the sequence—extra particularly, a 3rd starring The Rock—is coming subsequent yr. Whereas the information {that a} fourth Jumanji movie is coming isn’t itself new, its standing has been a little bit up within the air since a minimum of 2021. Affected by delays attributable to Covid and Johnson filming Purple One, the actor has now confirmed the franchise’s fourth movie will start filming this November, with a projected launch on December 11, 2026.
What’s the key to Dwayne Johnson’s chemistry with Kevin Hart? Peak distinction performs a job, however the primary factor is belief. And that belief results in Jumanji 3 capturing in November! #TIFF pic.twitter.com/3jU6mjdATt
— Display screen Rant (@screenrant) September 8, 2025
The unique 1995 Jumanji starring Robin Williams, noticed Williams return to the true world after being spirited away right into a board recreation. Inversely, the 2017 reboot, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, starring Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan, answered what occurs when youngsters get teleported into an previous online game and have to manage the grownup actors as their avatars. Evidently, the movie’s flipping of the script and leaning closely into online game archetypes—a components repeated in its follow-up, The Subsequent Degree—resulted in what has change into a reliable blockbuster franchise for Sony, raking in billions worldwide.
Johnson has just lately expressed feeling pigeonholed as a blockbuster Hollywood movie man, voicing a want to be taken critically as an actor by means of The Smashing Machine, a movie for which he obtained a standing ovation for his emotional efficiency.
“I favored these motion pictures they usually had been enjoyable,” Johnson stated, referring to the blockbusters he’s identified far. “Some had been actually good and did nicely, and a few not so good! However I feel what I did notice is I simply had this burning want and this voice that was simply saying, ‘What if there’s extra, what if I can?’ Generally it’s arduous to know what you’re able to while you’ve been pigeon-holed into one thing.”
And but, the previous wrestler turned actor couldn’t disguise his pleasure to return to what he does finest: starring in movies that allow his action-hero abilities come by means of, tight t-shirt and all, and which generate spectacular field workplace returns for no matter manufacturing studio’s identify seems underneath his marquee. Considerably sarcastically, following Johnson’s pigeonhole remark, information broke that the actor would reteam with The Smashing Machine director Benny Safdie to star because the Hen Man in Lizard Music, a fantasy journey based mostly on the favored 1976 e-book by Daniel Pinkwater. If all of this was a intelligent rouse to plant a poultry easter egg to signpost the place his subsequent blockbuster ventures are headed, we actually are simply dwelling in The Rock’s world.
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