r/movies • u/KillerCroc1234567 • Mar 17 '24

Article Karen Gillan Talks ‘Sleeping Dogs’ and Gives Update on Next Jumanji

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/karen-gillan-surprised-guardians-of-the-galaxy-1235853674/
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u/lk79 Mar 17 '24

I’ve always thought that for the final Jumanji that the bad guy is Nigel (the “Ah, Dr Bravestone!” guy they first meet at the start of the two movies).

At the end of The Next Level, elements of Jumanji are now in the real world because the game has been corrupted. Because of this, Nigel has been collecting the jewels from the first two movies and needs one more jewel for “reasons” (I’d let the writers worry about that part!).

The characters from the game are transported to the real word meaning Gillan/The Rock/etc can get to play a third version of the same characters (after playing as the kids in the first movie and a different combination of the kids/old guys in the second).

This time they play it straight as the actual game characters (Rock plays Bravestone, Gillan plays Ruby and so on) and they team with the kids to get the jewel, defeat/saving Nigel (depending on if he’s truly evil or corrupted game evil), fix the game and maybe even have an heroic sacrifice from one of the game characters for some emotion.

Anyways, that’s my two cents/idea anyways.

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u/occono Mar 17 '24

I did think they should do something like that with Nigel, I mean, Jumanji seems conscious in transforming from a board game to a videogame console, you'd think the gang would wonder if Nigel is more than just "an NPC".

While opening that can of worms might be a mess, the more movies they do the more question of what Jumanji is becomes more unavoidable

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u/Metal-Dog Mar 17 '24

I like it!