Jumanji adapting story

Jumanji, the children storybook written by Chris Van Allsburg in 1981 was an acclaimed story which though a picture storybook was still a great story that affected the imagination of kids everywhere. The remediation of Jumanji led to the creation of a movie staring Robin Williams.

The story for the book and film is a board game that as the dice are rolled supernatural events happen such as monsoons, spiders, mosquitos and lions. The movie starts with Alan (Robin Williams) getting trapped in the game at a young age and when the game was started again by Peter and Judy he was released but due to how the game is played everything that comes out of the board stays out until the game is won which leads to a memorable action movie that has a memorable characters like Von Pelt that caused in the heart of young children. The main reason i bought Jumanji is due to Jumanji also being remediated into an animated series. Due to the premise of Jumanji the idea of the magic entering the real world wouldn't work for the series if they wanted to make it a long running series so they had to change the mythos of the series which they did. They decided so they could add more to the world of jumanji they would set it so instead of things coming out of the game the players enter the game until they answered a riddle. This shows a way of using an existing IP and making it your own while also allowing alot more freedom for the creators of the show.