Jumanji (2022 Reboot Series)

Jumanji is a 2022 American fantasy/live action story driven streaming series for Netflix and a direct reboot to the original 1995 film. The story follows just like the original the series of events of two children who move into a longtime empty house and discover a supernatural board game that upon players rolls of the dice, sends wild animals and other jungle hazards to manifest into their world and antagonize the players and surrounding neighborhood. When they start playing, they release a long time trapped man from the game's jungle world, where he explores the effects his disappearance made on town.

The series stars Brie Larson, Chris O'Dowd, Michaela Russell, and Cade Woodward and the series was streamed and released June 11th, 2022 on Netflix This series is directed by Len Wiseman and Jake Kasdan was made to capitalize on the recent sequels that released by Sony Pictures and got decent reviews from people.

Synopsis
In the town of Brantford, New Hampshire, a magical board game unleashes a world of adventure on siblings Peter (Cade Woodward) and Judy Shepherd (Michaela Russell) who recently lost their parents. While exploring an old mansion, the youngsters find a curious, jungle-themed game called Jumanji in the attic. When they start playing, they free Alan Parrish (Chris O'Dowd), who's been stuck in the game's inner world for decades. they start tying to civilize Alan to try to keep up with with modern world, but end up releasing a bunch of wild animals that start running loose in Branford.

Plot
after recently losing their parents in a car crash when on a skiing vacation in Canada, Judy Shepherd (Michaela Russell) and Peter Shepherd (Cade Woodward) move into the long emptied Parrish Mansion with their Aunt Nora Shepherd (Aisling Bea), planning to open the house as a bed & breakfast hotel. Exploring the emptiness of the Mansion, the three are disturbed by the Bats, and call pest control to investigate. The exterminator finds nothing and reveals to the kids the story of Alan's disappearance and an unpleasant rumor that he was apparently murdered, which he believes to have been done by the father. Due to their parent's sudden deaths, the relationships and attitudes between the kids and Nora are strained, as Judy has taken up telling lies but still likes telling jokes to lighten up the mood for Peter who has adopted a shyness and never speaks to anyone except Judy, but still likes to have a positive attuite for his sister. They try to start making some friends outside than they come across a house of a woman named Sarah Whittle (Brie Larson) who is a home school phycologist and starts being friendly at first but starts warning Judy and Judy and Peter about the dangers of Brantford. When they start getting ready for school. Like two kids before them, Judy and Peter also start to hear the sounds of drumbeats coming from the attic, something that Nora doesn't seem to notice.

Season 1

 * Chris O'Dowd as Alan Parrish
 * Brie Larson as Sarah Whittle
 * Michaela Russell as Judy Shepherd
 * Cade Woodward as Peter Shepherd
 * Judah Mackey as Young Alan Parrish
 * London Fuller as Young Sarah Whittle
 * Jamie Fox as Officer Carl Bentley (town Police officer)
 * Morris Chestnut as The Brantford Chief Police Officer Frank
 * Aisling Bea as Aunt Nora Shephard
 * Hugh Laurie as Russel Van Pelt
 * Sienna Guillory as Carol Parrish (Alan's mom)
 * John Hannah as Sam Parrish
 * Donald Glover as Young Carl Bentley
 * Celina Smith as Millie Brown (Judy Friend)
 * Michelle Collins as Mrs. Sherone (Judy and Peter's School Teacher)
 * Bradley Pierce as the Exterminator (attic)
 * David Alan Grier as The School Janitor (Harry)

Season 2
TBA.

Production
The director of the first two Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle movies was originally gonna be set to do a 3rd new Jumanji movie but Netflix than called him that were interested in do a full out dedicated reboot of the original Robin Williams Jumanji as a streaming services on the platform and while he wasn't too into it he was still on board and was excited to bring a new look into the Jumanji world and was hired as one of the co directors. Len Wiseman who work on Lucifer was on board as the main director on the Jumanji series and production began in early 2021.

In June of 2021 Michaela Russell and Cade Woodward were cast as the Shepherd siblings Judy and Peter, and earlier on very next month Chris O' Dowd and Brie Larson were cast a Alan Parrish and Sarah Whittle and their younger counter parts were casted as Judah Mackey and London Fuller especially since London Fuller worked with Brie Larson before in Captain Marvel.

Episodes
Main article: List of Jumanji episodes

Trivia

 * Chris O' Dowd was tying his best to not do a Robin Williams impression while playing Alan Parrish.
 * Michaela Russell was excited to play Judy in the series cause she loves the original Robin Williams Jumanji.
 * Instead of a Lion being in the attic, in this it's a Jaguar that crawls and stares on top of the attic celling.
 * The backstory episodes with young Alan and Sarah were set in 1995, fun fact when the original Jumanji (1995) film came out.
 * Bradley Pierce makes a cameo in the series as the attic exterminator from the first movie who play Peter in the 1995 film.
 * Jamie Fox makes his Carl character way more over the top that even David Alan Grier was giving a applause to his performance.
 * The Hyenas laughing and most of the animals of the series were given by Dee Bradley Baker.
 * The board game open's a jungle opening at the last episode.