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October 22, 2002 — USA Today reports:
Twenty-one years ago, the children's book Jumanji brought rampaging rhinoceroses into living rooms everywhere. Now, the sequel, Zathura, reveals what happened to the kids who picked up the hastily discarded jungle board game: After a second game board pops out, one boy, Danny, immediately rolls the dice and launches himself and his older brother, Walter, on a scary star trek that includes space pirates, meteor showers and evil robots.
"We expect it to be a good seller forever," she says, like Van Allsburg's classic Christmas story, ThePolar Express, which was first published in 1985.
It's unclear whether this tale will follow Jumanji to the big screen. Although Sony now owns the Zathura film rights, the makers of the Robin Williams-starring Jumanji have a pile of scripts close to 15 to consider for Jumanji II, Houghton Mifflin spokeswoman Megan Butler says.
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