Dwayne Johnson has just about wrapped shooting on the Baywatch movie, and then he’ll go straight into shooting the eighth film in the Fast and the Furious series, but he has another big project in the works, a remake of Jumanji.
Johnson took to his Instagram account to talk about the film, which is being directed by Jake Kasdan. It looks like the Jumanji remake will honour the memory of Robin Williams, who led the 1996 original, which in itself was based on the original book by Chris Van Allsburg.
“An important thing that I want to be honest and bring up is Robin Williams. The love and respect I have for this man is boundless. You have my word, we will honor his name and the character of ‘Alan Parrish’ will stand alone and be forever immortalized in the world of Jumanji in an earnest and cool way”, Johnson said.
“I have an idea of what to do and I think his family will be proud. I also think Robin is somewhere lookin’ down and laughing, remembering the first time we met backstage and I (for the first time ever) was a star struck bumbling idiot that couldn’t even get my words out. Idiot. He literally calmed me down w/ that smile and laugh. But that’s for another fun story down the road”.
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