The First Look at Jumanji 3 Takes the Characters Out of the Video Game Console — So Maybe They'll Meet the Board Game IRL

As expected, the video crippled characters are retired of the console. The archetypal look from Jumanji 3 is here, and it shows america thing we benignant of already knew was going to happen, but emotion nonetheless: the film’s main characters are successful the existent satellite now.

“Look who’s connected the loose,” Sony Pictures’ authoritative Twitter/X relationship shared connected Wednesday, November 19, alongside a photograph of Dwayne Johnson's Dr. Xander 'Smolder' Bravestone, Karen Gillan's Ruby Roundhouse, Kevin Hart's Franklin 'Mouse' Finbar, and Jack Black's Professor Sheldon 'Shelly' Oberon lasting successful the mediate of a residually snowy wintertime Boston street. That means they’ve near the video crippled satellite of Jumanji — and there’s a accidental they mightiness person an brushwood with the real-life committee crippled present that they’re beyond the console.

The archetypal 2 films successful the spinoff franchise — 2017’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and 2019’s Jumanji: The Next Level — saw the characters getting pulled into a Jumanji video game, truthful it’s wide that the past movie successful the franchise is changing up the tactic.

It feels similar there’s a large accidental the characters volition brushwood the existent committee crippled successful this installment, and 1 of the biggest hints successful favour of that crippled constituent is the information that Johnson’s quality volition beryllium wearing a dice necklace successful the movie meant to wage homage to the archetypal 1995 classic.

"The value of the dice successful the past representation is simply a small Easter ovum that my character, Dr. Smolder Bravestone, wears connected a necklace successful our last film," the histrion precocious shared connected Instagram. "It’s the dice from the archetypal 1995 JUMANJI and a mode of paying homage, love, and respect to the large Robin Williams."

Johnson besides shared that the movie volition officially beryllium the last installment successful the franchise. "What a massive, fun, heartfelt adventure," Johnson wrote successful a station that highlighted the film’s archetypal array read. "Feels emotionally due for our beloved JUMANJI franchise to extremity connected this beauteous grace enactment of our last film."

Jumanji 3 is acceptable to beryllium released successful theaters connected December 11, 2026.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.