Alan, unfortunately, never read the rules of the game and never saw his personally tailored clue, indefinitely trapping him in the game's self-contained universe until he finally completes whatever quest the game originally intended for him.Īs you may have surmised from my screenshots, said universe is not just the African jungle implied by prior source materials. Instead, every round transports its players to another world where they must solve the meaning of a riddle-like "clue" to be released.
In the series, it's no longer normal for Jumanji to unleash wild animals and bad weather into the real world. Wisely, the series writers chose to focus on the question of where Alan Parrish actually went when the game imprisoned him, taking the opportunity to build an entire fantasy realm on the other side of the board. The simple story of a magical jungle-themed board game already needed some generous embellishment to support a single movie, and now it needed a mythos expansive enough to carry an entire series. Jumanji: The Series was brought to life by the artwork of Everett Peck, whose cartoon credits include designing the vast majority of ghosts, demons and ectoplasmic oozers ever seen in The Real Ghostbusters, which is only the start of the bizarre course it chose to take. So, why are we talking about Jumanji, of all things, on a site like spooky ? A series which, against all odds, would survive for forty episodes from 1996 to 1999. Needless to say, putting Robin Williams in the same film as any number of monkeys resulted in the smash family hit of 1995, and like many smash family hits, somebody somewhere decided its success could be capitalized upon with a Saturday morning cartoon series. This is the fate which befalls a young boy, Alan Parrish, until he re-emerges from the game as a raving wildman. To pad out content for a feature length story, the supernatural game was now a much darker and more menacing force, capable of imprisoning losers until they are finally released by another game session.
Over a decade later, director Joe Johnston took it upon himself to bring this weird little tale to the big screen, expanding the 32-page picture book into a 104 minute fantasy adventure featuring the scariest, hairiest jungle animal of them all, the Robin Williams. In 1981, Chris Van Allsburg published Jumanji, a short children's book in which a mysterious, jungle-themed board game magically unleashes wild animals and exotic dangers into reality.
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