Jumanji: Open World trailer sends the game into the real world
Sony released the first full Jumanji: Open World trailer on July 28. The game breaks out of the console and into reality this time, and the trilogy’s final film hits theaters December 25.
Sony dropped the first full trailer for Jumanji: Open World on July 28, and it flips the whole premise. This time the game doesn’t pull people in. It breaks out.
The threequel hits theaters Christmas Day, December 25, 2026.
Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan are all back. So is the chaos, except now it’s loose in the real world instead of trapped in a jungle.
What happens in the Jumanji: Open World trailer
The setup picks up right where The Next Level left off. At the end of that movie, a repairman accidentally switched the game back on. Now the jungle is pouring out of it.
The trailer opens with that repairman finding an old game console. Then the camera pulls back to a house with storm clouds boiling overhead, and a pack of ostriches stampeding down a real street.
The hook this time is the flip. The avatars, Dr. Bravestone and the rest, end up in the real world, face-to-face with the people who played as them in the previous films. To fix the collapsing line between the two worlds, everyone has to go back into the game one more time.
The official synopsis calls it the “hilarious final installment.” This is the end of the modern trilogy, and the marketing isn’t hiding it.
The team behind Jumanji: Open World
The core group that made the reboots work is intact.
Jake Kasdan is back directing, his third Jumanji in a row after 2017’s Welcome to the Jungle and 2019’s The Next Level. He co-wrote the script with franchise regulars Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg.
Johnson produces through his Seven Bucks Productions banner alongside Dany Garcia, Hiram Garcia, Matt Tolmach, and Kasdan. Composer Henry Jackman returns to score.
The cast list runs deep past the main four. Nick Jonas, Awkwafina, Alex Wolff, Morgan Turner, Madison Iseman, Rhys Darby, and Danny DeVito all come back, with Dan Hildebrand and Jack Jewkes joining as newcomers.
The modern Jumanji movies have made over $1.7 billion
There’s a reason Sony keeps sending people back to the jungle.
Welcome to the Jungle pulled in more than $962 million worldwide. The Next Level followed with over $801 million. Together the two modern films cleared $1.7 billion.
The reboots turned Chris Van Allsburg’s story into a video game premise: players get sucked in and pilot avatars with specific powers and very specific weaknesses. That body-swap comedy, Johnson playing a nervous teenager, Black playing a self-absorbed one, carried both movies.
Open World keeps that engine and changes the setting. Instead of the humans going into the game, the game comes to them.
When and where to see Jumanji: Open World
The film opens in theaters on December 25, 2026, in IMAX and premium large formats.
That Christmas date is a change. Sony originally set the movie for December 11, then moved it back two weeks to avoid opening right before “Dunesday,” the fan nickname for the December 18 double release of Dune: Part Three and Avengers: Doomsday.
So Jumanji cedes early December to the heavy hitters and takes the holiday slot instead, the same late-December window that worked for the first two films.
The game’s been in the console for seven years. Christmas morning, it gets out.
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Hat Tips:
Sony Pictures via the official Jumanji trailer and synopsis (July 28, 2026), verified for the trailer release, the real-world premise, the “hilarious final installment” synopsis, and the December 25 date reiteration
Deadline (July 28, 2026), verified for the trailer details, the repairman-and-console opening, the ostriches, the modern trilogy box office figures, and the Chris Van Allsburg source credit
Variety (July 28, 2026), verified for the full returning cast, the newcomers, the combined $1.7 billion gross, and the “third and final movie” framing
Screen Rant (July 28, 2026), verified for Jake Kasdan directing, the Pinkner and Rosenberg co-writing credit, the pickup from The Next Level’s ending, and the Dunesday-avoidance date move
GamesRadar and The Wrap (April 2026), verified for the shift from December 11 to Christmas Day and the reasoning behind it