Nick Jonas joins Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black in Jumanji

Singer Nick Jonas is in negotiations to join Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black in the remake of 1995 hit movie Jumanji.

Updated on: Jul 30, 2016, 16:57:29 IST

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Singer Nick Jonas is in negotiations to join Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black in the remake of 1995 hit movie Jumanji.

The script will be based on the original Robin Williams’ film that came out in 1995 and grossed more than $260 million globally. (Instagram)

A deal is in the works for Jonas, 23, to join the film, which will be directed by Jake Kasdan, reported Deadline.

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It's OFFICIAL: Love this script! Big movie news that me and my canine gal Shang are excited to share;) To produce, create and deliver original properties to fans like HBO's #ballers to this summer's #CentralIntelligence is one of the best parts of my job. But to take great properties that are beloved worldwide like #BAYWATCH and #RAMPAGE and have the opportunity reimagine their stories in dope new ways to a whole new generation is truly an honor. It's official. We'll produce and deliver to a whole new generation a title that I love and is one of my all time favs: There's games you play for fun... then there's games that change your life. JUMANJI Working on edging up an already very good script with my @sevenbucksprod team. Up next is meeting with our producer Matt Tolmach and director Jake Kasdan. Shooting starts this fall. Promise to deliver something cool and special.. and not screw the whole damn thing up;). As always I'll keep you posted. Casting this should be fun! #JUMANJI #JungleLife #JustPressStart #SONYPictures

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The script will be based on the original Robin Williams’ film that came out in 1995 and grossed more than $260 million globally.

Read: We will honour and immortalise Robin Williams in Jumanji: The Rock

And the #JUMANJI magic begins. Excellent meeting with our director Jake Kasdan, producer Matt Tolmach, and our @SevenBucksProd team to work on our new re-imagining of this amazing story. I felt like in order to craft something cool we should begin where it all started. Award winning writer Chris Van Allsburg's source material of JUMANJI. Chris also wrote THE POLAR EXPRESS (later adapted by Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks) and has a very special & magical way of storytelling. I'm feelin' good and confident stepping into these shoes as a producer as well as actor to bring you something great that you and your entire fam can enjoy. An important thing that I want to be honest and bring up is Robin Williams. The love and respect I have for this man is boundless. You have my word, we will honor his name and the character of "Alan Parrish" will stand alone and be forever immortalized in the world of JUMANJI in an earnest and cool way. I have an idea of what to do and I think his family will be proud. I also think Robin is somewhere lookin' down and laughing, remembering the first time we met backstage and I (for the first time ever) was a star struck bumbling idiot that couldn't even get my words out. Idiot. He literally calmed me down w/ that smile and laugh. But that's for another fun story down the road. We got a great team assembled already over at our home base of SONY and now we build from here. Here's another fun part... in the original movie there were three big roles. In our new story there's now FIVE. Been so damn cool to see all my actor buddies push their projects aside so hopefully they can come play in our world. Should have cool casting announcements this week. Will keep you posted. #TheMagicBegins #JustPressStart #JUMANJI

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Johnson, who is also the co-producer on the movie, earlier announced that while the original had three big roles, this one will have five. The movie will honour the original, specifically Williams.

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