Isn't this made by the same people who did Jumanji??

it is made by the same people, and when I first saw the trailer I thought it was a rip off and then it said "from the creators of Jumanji" and I just sat back and said, okay whatever...

It's not Jumanji 2, because it's not from the same dimension as Jumanji.
It doesn't use the same game, and so calling it Jumanji two would confuse kids who never saw it before and may never will.
It's possible that the games were created by different people in the stories. Or maybe one person made multiple games and spread them around the globe. But since this new film is a science fiction film, it is kinda odd for them to be very much connected or even created in the same decade. Maybe someone figured out how Jamunji was created and was able to make their own game with a theme that is more interesting to them.



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The source material for Jumanji and Zathura each come from books by Chris van Allsburg, who also did The Polar Express.

However, the creative teams behind the two films were completely different, so this wasn't really a sequel as such...it was more like a different story from the same realm.


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