Jumanji 3 Levels Up as The White Lotus Star Joins the Adventure
Jumanji 3 just leveled up its cast with The White Lotus standout Brittany O'Grady, as fresh details on the sequel begin to surface.
Quick one: the next Jumanji movie just added a couple of new players, and the core team is back. No title yet, but the franchise money printer is warming up again.
New recruits
Brittany O'Grady, who you probably remember from the first season of The White Lotus, has signed on. Burn Gorman is in too — you might have seen him pop up recently in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Solid character-actor energy there.
Who is steering this thing
Jake Kasdan is back in the director's chair, same as the last two modern Jumanji movies. The main avatars are returning as well: Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan. Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg are writing the new one. Plot? Completely under wraps.
- Brittany O'Grady joins the cast (per THR)
- Burn Gorman also boards the film
- Jake Kasdan returns to direct
- Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan are back
- Script by Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg
- No official title yet
- Story details are being kept quiet
- Unclear if the real-world teen quartet — Alex Wolff, Ser'Darious Blain, Madison Iseman, and Morgan Turner — will return
Quick refresher
This is the third movie in the current run that turned Jumanji into a video-game-avatar adventure. Technically, the modern films are sequels to the original 1995 Jumanji, which was based on Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 picture book and starred Robin Williams, David Alan Grier, Kirsten Dunst, and Bonnie Hunt. There was also Zathura: A Space Adventure in 2005, a spin-off directed by Jon Favreau.
Why Sony keeps rolling the dice
Because the numbers are ridiculous. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle pulled in over $950 million worldwide in 2017, and the follow-up still hauled $801.7 million. So, yeah, we were always getting another one — the only mystery was who else would be playing. Now we know two more names.