Sony unveils Jumanji: Open World poster ahead of Christmas release
The first poster brings back Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Jack Black and Kevin Hart as the film moves its game characters into the real world.
Sony released the first poster for Jumanji: Open World on October 19, showing Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Jack Black and Kevin Hart ahead of the film’s scheduled December 25 theatrical opening. The new image puts the returning stars together as the series prepares to take its game characters into the real world.
The poster stacks the four actors in a vertical lineup, according to The Hollywood Reporter and Fiction Horizon. Fiction Horizon describes ostriches around them on a snowy city street, beneath the tagline ‘Two worlds collide. One final game.’ The birds connect the image to the end of the previous film, when Jumanji animals appeared in the real world outside a restaurant, Fiction Horizon reported.
What Jumanji: Open World has shown so far
Johnson shared the poster on Instagram with the words ‘Two worlds collide’ and ‘One final game,’ according to The Hollywood Reporter. He described the Christmas Day opening as an exclusive theatrical release. Both outlets report that Sony is presenting the film as a final chapter; that description refers to the announced film, rather than establishing what Sony might do with the franchise later.
Jake Kasdan returns to direct. The Hollywood Reporter says the story follows the game’s heroes as they escape their console and cause havoc in the real world. A trailer released over the summer had already shown the four central characters outside the game, appearing as awkward versions of their video game avatars. The poster offers another look at that premise without showing a new scene from the film.
How the Christmas opening fits the series
Kasdan directed Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle in 2017 and its 2019 sequel, The Next Level. The earlier film followed teenagers trapped inside a video game as adult avatars, reversing the setup of the 1995 Jumanji film starring Robin Williams. Open World brings back the central cast while extending the sequel’s hint that the game could spill into ordinary life.
Johnson, Hart and Black presented the new film’s first footage at CinemaCon earlier this year, when its full title was announced. Fiction Horizon reports that Sony subsequently moved the planned opening from December 11 to December 25. The newly released poster now places that Christmas date alongside the returning cast and the film’s real-world premise.
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Sources and context
- Dwayne Johnson Reveals ‘Jumanji: Open World’ New Look Ahead of Holiday Release: “One Final Game”The Hollywood Reporter
- ‘Jumanji: Open World’ Reveals First Poster for the Franchise’s Final AdventureFiction Horizon
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