A few years ago, shop Columbia Pictures announced a plan to reboot the hit 1995 action-adventure film Jumanji, about a unique and deadly board game that magically transports its players to a jungle world – or brings the jungle world to them. Stranger than Fiction and Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium writer Zack Helm was brought on to write the script, which Columbia co-head Doug Belgrad said the reboot would “try and re-imagine Jumanji and update it for the present.” And then suddenly there was no more news about the project.

As a bonafide classic starring the late Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst and more, Jumanji has worked its way into fans’ hearts over the years, and many of those same fans have expressed their …

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