Jumanji Open World Trailer Sends the Game Into Reality

Sony Pictures released the official trailer for Jumanji Open World on October 28, giving audiences a first extended look at the third and final chapter of the modern Jumanji trilogy. The film arrives exclusively in theaters on December 25, 2026, and director Jake Kasdan returns to close out the series he rebooted in 2017.

The new footage flips the setup of the two earlier films. Instead of teenagers being pulled inside a video game, the game itself breaks out of its console and into the real world, sending jungle animals and hazards through suburban streets at Christmas. Sony describes the premise as a reversal: the heroes have escaped the jungle before, but this time Jumanji comes to them.

The game leaves the console

The trailer picks up from the mid-credits scene of Jumanji: The Next Level, in which a repair worker accidentally restarted the damaged console. In Jumanji Open World, that accident has consequences on a much larger scale, with creatures and obstacles from the game appearing in ordinary neighborhoods while the main characters are drawn back into the action.

The footage shows jungle animals rampaging through suburbia during the Christmas season, a sharp change for a franchise that spent two films inside a game world. The avatars appear in the real world as stiff, limited versions of themselves, which gives the cast a new way to play the fish-out-of-water comedy that made the earlier films work. Jumanji Open World leans on that contrast: familiar heroes, unfamiliar surroundings, and a game that no longer stays where it belongs.

The familiar body-swap comedy returns with new pairings. Spencer's mother Janice ends up in the frame of Dwayne Johnson's Dr. Xander Smolder Bravestone, while Spencer takes on Karen Gillan's martial-arts-proficient Ruby Roundhouse. Kitchen worker Donatas lands inside Jack Black's Professor Shelly Oberon, and Nora's young nephew Tyson takes control of Kevin Hart's Franklin Mouse Finbar. The trailer makes clear that what happens inside the game now carries consequences outside it, with the characters warned that losing could cost them the home they are trying to protect.

The returning cast

Johnson, Black, Hart and Gillan return as the in-game avatars in Jumanji Open World, alongside the real-world players portrayed by Alex Wolff, Madison Iseman, Morgan Turner and Ser'Darius Blain. Nick Jonas, Awkwafina, Rhys Darby and Danny DeVito are also back, and Bebe Neuwirth reprises her role as Nora from the 1995 original, tying the new film directly to the series' roots. The cast expands with Burn Gorman, Nasim Pedrad, Brittany O'Grady, Dan Hildebrand and Jack Jewkes.

Kasdan co-wrote the screenplay with returning franchise writers Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, drawing again on Chris Van Allsburg's original children's book. Johnson, Kasdan, Matt Tolmach, Dany Garcia and Hiram Garcia produce Jumanji Open World, keeping the core creative team intact for the finale.

A Christmas Day finish for a hit series

The reboot series has been one of Sony's most reliable performers. Collider reports that Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle earned $961.6 million worldwide, while Jumanji: The Next Level followed with $803.3 million. A strong holiday run for Jumanji Open World would cap a trilogy that turned a 1995 family film into a modern box office staple.

The new chapter also closes a loop that began three decades ago. The 1995 original centered on a board game whose creatures and hazards spilled into an ordinary suburban home, and the modern films flipped that idea by sending teenagers into a video game. Jumanji Open World returns to the original concept on a much larger scale, with the whole game breaking loose rather than a single board game piece at a time.

The Christmas Day date positions Jumanji Open World as Sony's family counter-programming against December tentpoles such as Avengers: Doomsday and Dune: Part Three, according to The Playlist's report on the trailer launch. The studio has not yet announced a runtime, rating or streaming date, leaving those details for a later announcement.

For audiences, the appeal is straightforward: the same cast, the same swapped identities, and a premise that finally lets the jungle loose where the characters actually live. Whether that reversal gives the trilogy a satisfying ending will be decided when Jumanji Open World opens on Christmas Day. Related coverage includes Clayface's box office debut and the tough reviews for Klara and the Sun.