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Fresh off his Oscar-buzzed performance in Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine, it looks like Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson will soon be heading back to the jungle, as the star confirms that Jumanji 3 is set to start filming very soon.
In an interview with Variety, the star revealed that Jumanji 3 will start shooting in November 2025, and it will see Johnson reunite with long-time collaborator Kevin Hart.
This comes not long after Johnson admitted that he feels "pigeon-holed" in Hollywood, and that going forward, he wants to focus more on grittier projects like his recent sports biopic rather than his usual blockbusters. However, it sounds as though he will remain loyal to his franchises, as Johnson added, "The films that I made in the past, I love them… I’ll go back to making them again.”
Johnson first took on the role of Dr. Xander 'Smolder' Bravestone in the 2017 movie Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, followed by its sequel, Jumanji: The Next Level, which hit screens in 2019. The movies star Johnson, Hart, Karen Gillan, and Jack Black as four in-game characters controlled by outside players who get sucked into the game and into the avatars' bodies. However, the road to Jumanji 3, or Jumanji 4 if you count the Robin Williams-led original, has not been so smooth.
