Kirsten Dunst could return for next ‘Jumanji’ film, says director

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Kirsten Dunst could return for the next Jumanji film, its director has revealed in a new interview.Dunst appeared in the original Jumanji film as child Judy Shepherd alongside Robin Williams in 1995.Now, Jake Kasdan, the director of the last two Jumanji films, Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2017) and The Next Level (2019), has said that he is keen for Dunst to return to the Jumanji universe when the next film in the series is made.Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, Kasdan spoke about the next third film in the series, which is slated to arrive in 2026.Earlier this year, Dunst told The Hollywood Reporter that she’d not been approached about a cameo in the current series of films – but Kasdan told the outlet that they’ve been trying to get her.He said: “We love Kirsten.

She’s fantastic. From the time we did Welcome to the Jungle, we were very focused on keeping a little bit of connectivity to the original movie, which we love.

We’ve always wanted to honour it and keep enough of it alive. Also, the way the original movie ends, as brilliant as it is, creates a lot of plot complications in trying to continue the story with those characters.“I don’t know how well you remember it, but the world reverts back to what it was before, as though it never happened.