As an only child, I had no siblings to play with, and my parents worked hard, and we moved around a lot.'' By the time he is able to come out, 26 years later, his parents are dead, and he feels lost and alone.
I play a boy who has been swallowed up in the game. It's the fear all children have of abandonment and separation from their parents. something much deeper and more disturbing. ''They are fascinated and a bit frightened by the black-and-white drawings of monsters under the bed. ''I've read 'Jumanji' to my four-year-old and six-year-old,'' Williams says. Even though the ''Jumanji'' game depicted in the book is a simple affair of dice and a board - a far cry from the elaborate game depicted in the film - he says it holds a basic fascination for children. Williams was another of those parents who had discovered ''Jumanji.'' Something of a game freak himself, he has gone from ''Chutes and Ladders'' as a kid to the more gritty adventures of today's video games. Alan joins forces with two children to finish the game and banish the terrors that surround them. Williams, a boy-man named Alan who has been imprisoned in the game for 26 years. This introduces the character played by Mr. The movie version complicates the basic plot by adding a side story about other children who had found the game in the past and initiated events that have to be resolved in the present. And they also know that there's the possibility of lots of terrible things that could happen before they can finish it.'' But they know they have to finish the game themselves if order is to be restored. ''When things get rough, the kids consider waiting for the parents to come home. Van Allsburg says the moral of the story resides in the children's confrontation with the terrors they have unleashed. They take it back to their house and, with a few rolls of the dice, soon find themselves overwhelmed by clawing lions, writhing snakes, rampaging rhinos, an erupting volcano, and a blowing monsoon. The original book's simple text and striking black-and-white charcoal drawings told the story of two small children who, bored one day while their parents are away, find in the woods a mysterious board game called Jumanji, a Jungle Adventure Game. They recognized its cinematic possibilities and sought the movie rights from the shy, somewhat retiring Van Allsburg. Among the parents who, over the years, have read it to their youngsters, were movie producers Scott Kroopf and William Teitler. Van Allsburg's second, was published in 1982 and racked up the prestigious Caldecott Medal and other awards. ''But it looks like now the movies have caught up with me.'' The new TriStar release, starring Robin Williams, is the first Hollywood adaptation of his stories. 'When I wrote 'Jumanji,' I never thought it could ever exist outside my own imagination,'' says author-illustrator Chris Van Allsburg.
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