Netflix will soon start streaming a funny action movie from 2017 starring Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Dwayne Johnson. The film is a modern update to a beloved classic from 1995 and was a huge box office success, earning close to $1 billion worldwide.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle streams on Netflix in April
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle will stream on Netflix from Sunday, April 5, 2026.
The movie starts in 1996 with a boy named Alex discovering the Jumanji game on a beach. This time, instead of a traditional board, he finds a game cartridge inside. After playing it that night, Alex is pulled into the game world, and everyone believes he’s disappeared.
In 2017, twenty-one years after the game went missing, four high school students – Spencer, Fridge, Bethany, and Martha – discover it while serving detention and decide to try it out. As soon as they start playing, they’re magically transported into the game, each becoming the character they initially chose. To get back to the real world, they need to complete a mission: return a stolen jewel and break a curse.
Jake Kasdan directed the movie, which was written by Chris McKenna. The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Alex Wolff, Ser’Darius Blain, Morgan Turner, Madison Iseman, and Nick Jonas.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle was released worldwide on December 20, 2017, and was well-received by both critics and moviegoers. The film has a 77% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and an 87% audience score. It was also a huge financial hit, earning around $962.5 million worldwide (according to Box Office Mojo). A follow-up movie, Jumanji: The Next Level, came out in 2019.
So, after the original Jumanji did so well back in ’95, I heard they immediately started thinking about a sequel. They bounced around a bunch of different ideas for what it could be. Apparently, they even asked Robin Williams to come back as Alan Parrish, but he wasn’t interested. That kind of killed the momentum for Jumanji 2, and instead, they ended up making Zathura: A Space Adventure.
Originally reported by Harsha Panduranga on ComingSoon.
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