While everyone is still in the process of missing Robin Williams (don’t lie, you got choked up while watching Good Will Hunting the other day), Sony has been going full speed ahead on a reboot of Jumanji with a completely new cast. As Variety reports, Jake Kasdan is the lucky guy who gets to try and somehow top the entertainment and soul of the original movie. The 1995 movie starring Williams as well as Bonnie Hunt and a baby-faced Kirsten Dunst remains endlessly rewatchable even after two decades. How many millennials imagined they would come across a magic board game in a haunted mansion and get attacked by wildlife and jungle animals? It must have been at least a double digit amount of people. Dozens even!
Kasdan has a tough job ahead of him for sure, seeing as not only does he have to try and make a movie people won’t resent for not having Robin Williams in it, but he also has to do that with a timeline of only about 11 months. The film is slated to pop out of a board game and onto movie screens by Christmas of this year, which doesn’t leave much time to craft a fresh story or film a scene where somebody almost gets sucked into a fireplace by a killer vine. Not to mention a new cast hasn’t even been chosen yet.
With the movie in crunch time before it even begins, I’d be happy to help Sony out with some casting ideas. Mainly, that they bring Kirsten Dunst back in the Bonnie Hunt roll to bring things full circle. She’s the exact same age that Hunt was when she portrayed the disbelieving and horrified Sarah Whittle way back in 1995.
(via Variety)
