Jack Black In Talks For The Rock's Jumanji Reboot

05/11/2016 07:02 pm EDT

Jack Black may be jumping into a board game adventure. The actor is in talks for a role in Jumanji, The Wrap reports. The reboot of the film currently has Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Kevin Hart signed on to star. Black comes off a successful family adventure comedy, Goosebumps, with Sony Pictures, also producing this film.

Jumanji is based, as was the original film adaptation in 1995, on a book by Chris Van Allsburg from 1981. Jake Kasdan, son of Star Wars legend Lawrence Kasdan, is signed on to direct a script by Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner.

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Jack Black has officially joined the Jumanji movie as announced by Dwayne Johnson on Instagram.

The movie will start shooting in August 2016 for a July 28, 2017 release - a date the film was given by Sony after they bumped Spider-Man: Homecoming up three weeks to July 7, 2017.

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