PIC: The Rock has posted a passionate tribute to Robin Williams ahead of the Jumanji remake

“A game for those who seek to find a way to leave the world behind.”

Jumanji was one of those movies that we watched countless times growing up, and now The Rock is taking on the remake as both an actor and a producer.

As Johnson said himself, he has big boots to fill.

In case you never saw the 1995 original, Jumanji saw Robin Williams’ Alan Parrish released from a board game played by two kids, after being trapped inside for decades.

The adventure classic is endlessly entertaining and adored by fans, so when the announcement of the remake, set to hit screens in 2017, arrived, there was a lot of skepticism.

The Rock has taken to Instagram to ensure everybody that the remake will be top notch (with five stars set to appear, including Kevin Hart) while also paying tribute to Chris Van Allsburg, the award-winning writer of the original film.

The WWE icon, though, had very special words for the late Robin Williams, explaining that he was completely starstruck when the two met for the first time, only for Williams to instantly put him at ease.

Take a look at this great post.

And the #JUMANJI magic begins. Excellent meeting with our director Jake Kasdan, producer Matt Tolmach, and our @SevenBucksProd team to work on our new re-imagining of this amazing story. I felt like in order to craft something cool we should begin where it all started. Award winning writer Chris Van Allsburg's source material of JUMANJI. Chris also wrote THE POLAR EXPRESS (later adapted by Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks) and has a very special & magical way of storytelling. I'm feelin' good and confident stepping into these shoes as a producer as well as actor to bring you something great that you and your entire fam can enjoy. An important thing that I want to be honest and bring up is Robin Williams. The love and respect I have for this man is boundless. You have my word, we will honor his name and the character of "Alan Parrish" will stand alone and be forever immortalized in the world of JUMANJI in an earnest and cool way. I have an idea of what to do and I think his family will be proud. I also think Robin is somewhere lookin' down and laughing, remembering the first time we met backstage and I (for the first time ever) was a star struck bumbling idiot that couldn't even get my words out. Idiot. He literally calmed me down w/ that smile and laugh. But that's for another fun story down the road. We got a great team assembled already over at our home base of SONY and now we build from here. Here's another fun part… in the original movie there were three big roles. In our new story there's now FIVE. Been so damn cool to see all my actor buddies push their projects aside so hopefully they can come play in our world. Should have cool casting announcements this week. Will keep you posted. #TheMagicBegins #JustPressStart #JUMANJI

A photo posted by therock (@therock) on May 9, 2016 at 10:23am PDT

It’s hard to imagine The Rock as a “bumbling idiot”, but if anybody had the ability to cause such a reaction, it would definitely have been Robin Williams.

Anyway, if the new version of Jumanji is just half as good as the original, we’ll be satisfied.

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