The Tuesday Franchise is incredibly simple and creatively different. The easy part is that its two recent films stand together as one story. Boom. I got it. However, the two films also serve as subtle sequences to 1995 Tuesday the film that, without the title, seems completely unrelated. So when you talk
In all three Tuesday movies, seemingly ordinary people threaten themselves with a game that comes to life. In the starring Robin Williams movie, it was a board game that expanded into the real world. Both 2017 & # 39; s Jumanji: Welcome to the Forest
"I felt like we were different enough that people, once they saw it, would not feel like we were actually treading something they liked in a way that was offensive to them, which is something to watch out for," Kasdan told i9 on the phone last week. “So to the best of my knowledge, of course, our concept may be different enough where that would not be a problem, I liked the idea of honoring our respects for the first movie and saying that the world is still alive and well, though we tell a different story. ”
In Welcome to the forest, those honors are paid when players see Alan Parrish (name The character of Williams in the first movie) earlier they had been associated with the same game in the world of Jumanji – before them. In Next level, comes with the launch of a restaurant called “Nora. ” Nora is the mother-in-law of Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce), young characters who find and play Tuesday in the original movie. Bebe Neuwirth played my uncle in 1995, and again Next Level as a restaurant owner.
“The first Tuesday it has its own story and is exactly that, ”Kasdan said. "I don't feel comfortable continuing this story directly (but) this has been a great way to enter the world, enter my favorite character and whoas played by my favorite character, and it would be a way for him to intervene in our stories that would work well in early films and in our movies. ”
So much by the way Welcome to the forest it's an amazing sequence from the beginning Tuesday, Kasdan told us he was the first He was surprised that he was making another move to his movie. Or Welcome to the forest he was one of the biggest boxing hits of 2017, he wasn't sure what, or if, he wanted to do as a follow up.
"We would do a series if we could find something we were excited about," Kasdan said. “And there was this is the first phase of like & # 39; It may be good, but let's be hard on it. We'll have all the conversations and kick them out and see if we can get that. & # 39; Then my favorite idea comes pretty quickly. ”
That idea would add a new generation to the story in the characters of Eddie (Danny DeVito) and Milo (Danny Glover), two adults men who used to be best friends but didn't talk for years. They, along with the teenagers coming out Welcome to the forest, fly to Jumanji in the middle Next Level.
"To do one of those strange moments, but in the eyes of these guys, you just come from a different time in their life," Kasdan said. Adding Milo and Eddie gave the director a chance to find out Jumanji The two big stars, Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart, are the funny appearances of well-known adult actors, but most importantly, their friendship gives the film all sorts of new themes in terms of friendship, old age and death.
Whether or not those characters will continue in sequence, we don't know. But the end of Final Level does not specify what may happen next in that agreement. Kasdan admits the middle-class, herd of beards from the beginning of the billionaire now taking place in the real world, was done with a purpose.
"It's not random and it sounds like the right extension of the story. Like a movie you might want to see. Me would like to see. Or a part of It's a movie I want to see, ”Kasdan said. “It's hearing something you want to see. But really we didn't have all the details. We have the pieces, but now we're starting a discussion of what that might look like. ”
The only thing that can slow down is seeing the third (fourth?) Tuesday film is a serious global illness that takes place in the real world. When asked what he was feeling Jumanji: Next Level he was coming home just in time because everyone was home, he laughed.
“I didn't think about that,” he said. "(But) I think hopefully he'll be in your bed and it's frustrating at this cool moment."
That, of course it is. Jumanji: Next Level is now available through digital demand, and on Blu-ray.
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