10 Movie Adaptations You Already Know Are Doomed To Disappoint
9. Jumanji
Maybe you'd forgotten that Hollywood decided to remake Jumanji and you were sleeping soundly at night in the knowledge that the Robin Williams version would forever stand as the only adaptation to ever grace this good Earth. Well, here's your wake up call: Jumanji 2017 is definitely a thing and nothing can stop it.
The original adaptation wasn't perfect, by any means, but it did successfully capture the spirit of the book on which it was based. It's a relentlessly entertaining if not relentlessly stupid product of '90s Hollywood, but Robin Williams made it work. In place of the beloved actor this time around we get The Rock, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and... Nick Jonas?
Listen, it would be ridiculous to list every single reason as to why the new Jumanji movie is going to disappoint. In short, the original is a nostalgic classic - a cult movie, even. Nothing that Hollywood can do with this version - including casting Dwayne Johnson, the world's most likeable actor - is going to stop audiences from rejecting it.
Oh, and it's from the director of Sex Tape. Remember Sex Tape? Exactly.