Concept Art of Dwayne Johnson's JUMANJI Character "The Smoldering Dr. Bravestone"
Dwayne Johnson has released a piece of concept art giving us our first look at the character he'll be playing in the upcoming Jumanji sequel. The name of his character is Spencer, a.k.a. The Smoldering Dr. Bravestone.
Johnson makes a funny observation in the caption for the photos in which he states, "not sure where my pecs went." That was the first thing I noticed in the art. I've never seen The Rock so flat-chested! The rest of the note is as follows:
This is gonna be fun.. Me, @kevinhart4real, Jack Black, @NickJonas and the Ginger Assassin @karengillanofficial can't wait to "play the game that plays you". #JUMANJI #DrBravestone #KingOfTheSmolder#TheAdventureContinues 💀
* JUMANJI Costume Designer Laura Jean Shannon
Comingsoon also offers some additional insight on the film regarding the Bravestone/Spencer character. The site says that they've found videos of actors auditioning for the part of Spencer, who apparently discovers Jumanji. This is a conversation between Spencer and another character in the film from these audition tapes:
“This is Jumanji… It’s sort of mythical among gamers, supposedly all the copies were destroyed because people would just get too into it.”
“Too into it?”
“People thought it was dangerous or something, this was a long time ago, in the ’90s during all the parental warning crap. People were paranoid.”
“What are those?”
“Avatar names, you pick a character and you’re that one for the game.”
So they speculate that Johnson's character Dr. Bravestone is the in-game avatar of Spencer. They also make a point of noting that in the scene being read, "it doesn’t seem like the Jumanji the characters discover is the board game as seen in the 1995 original film, but perhaps a video game version or an all-new board game."
Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher, Sex Tape) is directing the film from a script written by High Fidelity and Con Air scribe Scott Rosenberg. I hope this movie turns out to be good.