Jumanji: Open World Trailer: The Game Breaks Into the Real World as Dwayne Johnson’s Final Adventure Heads for Christmas

Sony Pictures has released a new trailer for Jumanji: Open World, the third and final chapter of the modern Jumanji trilogy, and it flips the franchise’s founding idea on its head. This time, the game does not pull people in — it breaks out. The trailer, released on October 28, 2026, shows Jumanji’s characters and creatures spilling into the real world. The film is set to hit cinemas on December 25, 2026, with Sony Pictures Entertainment India releasing it in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu.

Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan are all back as the beloved avatars — Dr. Smolder Bravestone, Franklin “Mouse” Finbar, Professor Shelly Oberon and Ruby Roundhouse — alongside Alex Wolff, Madison Iseman, Morgan Turner, Ser’Darius Blain, Nick Jonas, Rhys Darby and Danny DeVito. Director Jake Kasdan, who helmed both previous instalments, returns from a script he wrote with Jeff Pinkner and Scott Rosenberg, based on Chris Van Allsburg’s book. The trailer leans into the series’ body-swap comedy, including Johnson’s Bravestone inhabited by a middle-aged mother.

The stakes for this finale are considerable. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) grossed $962.5 million worldwide, and Jumanji: The Next Level (2019) earned $801.7 million globally, making the modern trilogy one of Sony’s most reliable franchises. Billed as “one last adventure,” it returns to the spirit of the 1995 Robin Williams original, in which a board game’s hazards invaded an ordinary home — now on a city-wide, Christmas-set scale.

Here is the Filmverse take: Open World’s premise is the smartest move this franchise could make, because two films in the jungle was already one too many — the joke of mismatched avatars needed a new room to play in, and the real world is it. By letting the game escape its console, Kasdan stages the franchise’s best gag — ordinary people possessed by heroic bodies — against traffic and Christmas crowds, not another vine-covered temple. With nearly $1.8 billion banked across the two previous films, this is a franchise cashing in goodwill, and a Christmas Day release in four Indian languages shows Sony counting on the family audience that made the earlier films hits. If the trailer’s promise holds — that losing this time leaves no home to return to, no reset and no second chance — Open World could be the rare trilogy closer that raises the stakes instead of merely repeating them. See also our report on Clayface’s $43 million worldwide run for how crowded the current marketplace is.

Sources: Pinkvilla, CinemaExpress, TellyChakkar, Vital Thrills, JustJared — trailer via Sony Pictures’ official YouTube upload