We’ll share the full conversation soon, but right now let’s dig into his explanation of how time and memory in Jumanji works. I recently got the opportunity to hop on the phone with Kasdan to talk about his experience making the Jumanji movies. They don’t lose the memory like Judy and Peter. Alex does return to 1996 and changes the course of his life for the better, but the 2016 teens still remember what happened in the game. According to the rules of the 1995 film, Alex should have been returned back to 1996 with all of his memories intact, while Spencer, Martha, Bethany and Fridge are left with no memory of what happened. Together, they complete the mission and all return home. While trying to win the game by ending a curse on Jumanji, they run into Alex’s avatar, a pilot named Jefferson McDonough ( Nick Jonas). They boot up the game and are pulled in as well. Then, in 2016, we meet the movie’s main characters: Spencer ( Alex Wolff), Martha ( Morgan Turner), Bethany ( Madison Iseman) and Fridge ( Ser'Darius Blain).
In 1996, young Alex Vreeke is sucked into the video game version of Jumanji. In Jake Kasdan’s 2017 film, however, the rules seem a little different.
