Dwayne Johnson announces new Jumanji sequel cast mate.

In the last week, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has been all over the news. Recently, Forbes named Johnson the highest paid actor of 2016, making a $64.5 million payday, doubling what he made in 2015 and claiming the top spot from former earnings champ Robert Downey, Jr. Just before that, Johnson had announced that the upcoming Jumanji film would in fact be a sequel to the original, not a reboot, and went on to announce that the film would star himself, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Nick Jonas.

Once again, "The People's Champ" (just one of his many nicknames during his pro wrestling days) has announced yet another addition to the "Jumanji" sequel... And a feminine one at that.
Earlier today on his Instagram account, Johnson posted a picture of actress Karen Gillan, announcing her as the newest member of the cast.

From Johnson's Instagram:
"Ladies and gentleman, I'm proud to announce a girl who's playing the most important role in our movie - the talented, beautiful and down for a Scottish fight at any time, Ms. Karen Gillan."



The 28 year-old actress is primarily known for her roles as Amy Pond in Doctor Who, Nebula in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (pictured above) and as Evie in the Academy Award-winning The Big Short. Aside from acting, Gillan has also had a hand behind the camera, writing and directing two shorts (Coward and Conventional, respectively) and the full length film Fun Size Horror: Volume Two; all films released in 2015.

It'll be interesting to see what role she plays in this follow-up story. Not only is this film being released twenty-two years after the Robin Williams/Bonnie Hunt original, but with the comedy-heavy casting of Johnson, Hart and Black, one wonders if Gillan will be the serious balance to the film or if she will join along with her male leads' potential goofball fun.

Jumanji is slated for a Summer 2017 release. Jake Kasdan (Sex Tape, Bad Teacher, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story) will be directing with Zach Helm, Chris McKenna, Jeff Pinker, Scott Rosenberg and Erik Sommers writing the script. Ted Field, Lauren Selig, William Teitler, Matthew Tolmach and Mike Weber are producing.

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