The Rock has dropped a massive update on Jumanji 3.
Dwayne Johnson revived the classic Jumanji movie franchise with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle in 2017. A sequel to Welcome to the Jungle, titled Jumanji: The Next Level, hit theatres in 2019. The same year, Johnson announced an untitled follow-up to The Next Level.
During a recent appearance on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, The Rock revealed that production on Jumanji 3 will begin in less than three weeks. He also took the opportunity to roast close friend and Jumanji co-star Kevin Hart.
“Thank you for all the Jumanji love,” he said. “I’m happy to announce to you guys here at Chapman that in less than three weeks we’re starting Jumanji 3. It’s very cool. There will be no Kevin Hart — yeah, he’s just greedy, he wants too much money, but it’s okay. No, I’m only kidding! We can’t wait. It’s going to be awesome. And Jake Kasdan is back, he’s going to direct. Oh, and very cool is that for the first time in all our Jumanji installments, we’re bringing it back home: we’re shooting in LA.”
The Rock on live-action Moana movie
The People’s Champion also announced that they had just wrapped filming on the live-action Moana movie before revealing that he spent a week shooting the live-action version of the 2016 hit song “You’re Welcome.”
“Playing Maui has been the gift of a lifetime. Growing up as a Samoan — half Samoan and half black — in Samoan culture, Polynesian culture? We’re proud people. Proud of our culture. And what Moana has represented is a really awesome global embrace of Polynesian culture, our values and our qualities and our pride and our mana.
“Today’s Tuesday. Just this past Friday, around 8:00 pm, we officially wrapped the live-action version of Moana, so we can’t wait. This upcoming summer, you guys will see live-action Moana, and it’s going to be pretty cool. I spent an entire week shooting ‘You’re Welcome,’ and the singing and the choreography is crazy.”
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