The Jumanji remake has today added new talent as it continues on track for a December 25, 2016 release
Plans for a Jumanji remake are still on track today as Deadline reports that the project has brought aboard new talent to push the feature to its previously-announced Christmas Day 2016 release. According to the outlet, High Fidelity and Con Air scribe Scott Rosenberg is set to rewrite the screenplay, while frequent Bad Robot executive producer Jeff Pinkner has come aboard the Jumanji remake as a consultant. The pair are no strangers to animals run amok. Along with Josh Appelbaum and André Nemec, Rosenberg and Pinker co-created the recent CBS series Zoo, based on the novel by James Patterson.
The Jumanji remake will return to the source material that inspired the 1995 film, re-adapting Chris Van Allsburg’s 1985 children’s book in which a magical board game causes jungle plants and creatures to invade a quiet American suburb. Directed by Joe Johnston, the 1995 big screen take on Jumanji stars the late Robin Williams opposite Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce, Jonathan Hyde, Bebe Neuwirth, David Alan Grier and Patricia Clarkson.
Previously, Zach Helm (Stranger Than Fiction, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium) took a pass at the Jumanji remake script.
Matt Tolmach and Bill Teitler are producing the reimagining of the story, which is set up through Columbia Pictures. Ted Field and Mike Weber are set to serve as executive producers.
The December 25, 2016 release date will have the Jumanji remake opening opposite Tim Burton’s latest, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Set up at 20th Century Fox, that film adapts the book by Ransom Riggs with a cast that includes Samuel L. Jackson, Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Ella Purnell, Chris O’Dowd, Allison Janney, Terence Stamp, Kim Dickens, Rupert Everett and Judi Dench.
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