{"id":126316,"date":"2025-09-09T23:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/126316\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T23:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T23:45:09","slug":"dwayne-the-rock-johnson-isnt-abandoning-big-budget-movies-entirely-hes-joining-forces-with-kevin-hart-once-again-for-jumanji-3-filming-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/126316\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson Isn’t Abandoning Big-Budget Movies Entirely \u2014 He’s Joining Forces With Kevin Hart Once Again for Jumanji 3 Filming in November"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson has revealed shooting for Jumanji 3<\/a> starts this November.<\/p>\n

The movie star confirmed the plan to Variety<\/a>, saying he will join forces once again with Kevin Hart for Jumanji 3, which currently has a December 11, 2026 release date.<\/p>\n

Deadline<\/a> has reported that director Jake Kasdan, along with Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan, were all in talks and expected to return.<\/p>\n

In the Jumanji films, Johnson plays Dr. Xander “Smolder” Bravestone, a strong, confident archaeologist and explorer who has no weaknesses. A bit like The Rock! The first Jumanji reboot film, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle<\/a>, was released in 2017 and enjoyed enormous success. The follow-up film, Jumanji: The Next Level<\/a>, was released two years later in 2019.<\/p>\n

Confirmation of the Jumanji 3 shooting schedule comes after Johnson said he had become \u201cpigeonholed\u201d as a blockbuster-only actor<\/a>. The Smashing Machine, which sees Johnson portray the life and career of Mark Kerr, a former wrestler and UFC star who struggled with substance abuse, is considered an Oscar contender.<\/p>\n

Johnson kicked off his hugely successful acting career as The Scorpion King in 2001\u2019s The Mummy Returns. His long list of blockbuster film roles also includes Lucas “Luke” Hobbs in the Fast & Furious franchise and Black Adam in the now defunct DC Extended Universe. Johnson also famously voiced Maui in the Moana animated movies, and is set to play the character in Disney’s upcoming live-action version.<\/p>\n

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The Smashing Machine, however, marks a significant change for Johnson, who some are saying could be in-line for his first Oscar nomination as a result. As reported by the BBC<\/a>, the 53-year-old said: “I’ve been scared to go deep and intense and raw until now, until I had this opportunity to do this.”<\/p>\n

But it sounds like Johnson is still very much up for a traditional crowdpleaser, telling Variety: \u201cThe films that I made in the past, I love them. I\u2019ll go back to making them again.\u201d Perhaps one day we\u2019ll get Johnson back as The Scorpion King, then.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Jumanji, Marvel star Karen Gillan recently opened up about the \u201cflak\u201d she\u2019s still receiving for the skimpy outfits her character Ruby Roundhouse wore in the Jumanji reboot films<\/a> \u2014 which it seems a lot of fans may have missed the irony on.<\/p>\n

Photo by Pascal Le Segretain\/Getty Images.<\/p>\n

Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dwayne \u2018The Rock\u2019 Johnson has revealed shooting for Jumanji 3 starts this November. The movie star confirmed the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-126316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}