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Dwayne Johnson gets snapped up by a hippo and falls in love with Jack Black in new trailer for final Jumanji movie
Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for *Jumanji: Open World*, the final film in the modern *Jumanji* trilogy. The story brings the game into the real world, where prehistoric creatures threaten the public, while Spencer and others are pulled into the game and must finish it before time runs out.
The film is set at Christmas and returns Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan as the game’s familiar avatars, now inhabited by new characters. Alex Wolff and other cast members also return, with Jake Kasdan directing. The film is due in cinemas on Christmas Day, and the trailer shows perilous encounters including a hippo grabbing Johnson’s character.
In short
- The new trailer shows Jumanji breaking into the real world.
- Familiar avatars have new inhabitants in the final trilogy film.
- *Jumanji: Open World* arrives in cinemas on Christmas Day.
Explained simply
Jumanji began as a 1981 children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg, in which a board game brings dangerous events into the players’ world. The idea later became a film series, including a modern set of films built around a video game that draws people inside it.
In the modern films, players take on the bodies and abilities of characters in the game, called avatars. Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan play those avatars, while Alex Wolff and other cast members play people from the real world who become involved.
The series combines adventure with comedy, as ordinary people face dangers in a game world and try to get home. Its final instalment brings that game into the real world, raising the stakes for the characters and the people around them.