Zathura is an illustrated novel by the American author
Chris Van AllsburgChris Van Allsburg is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He won the Caldecott Medal for Jumanji and The Polar Express , both of which he wrote and illustrated, and both of which were later adapted into successful motion pictures...
as well as a
filmZathura is a 2005 fantasy film directed by Jon Favreau, based on the illustrated book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg, author of Jumanji. It starred Jonah Bobo as Danny and Josh Hutcherson as Walter. Tim Robbins also had a small role as the divorced father of Walter and Danny...
that was based on the book. In this book, two boys, Walter and Danny Budwing, home alone in a large
American CraftsmanThe American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, and decorative arts style popular from the last years of the 19th century through the early years of the 20th century...
house, discover a space-themed
board gameA board game is a game in which counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a "board"...
where everything inside it becomes real. The boys are eventually drawn into an
intergalacticIntergalactic may refer to:* Intergalactic space* Intergalactic travel, travel between galaxies in science fiction and speculation* "Intergalactic" , a song by the Beastie Boys...
adventure when their house is magically hurled through space. The plot is similar to
JumanjiJumanji is the title of a 1981 children's illustrated short story written and illustrated by the American author Chris Van Allsburg. It was made into a 1995 film of the same name. Both the book and the movie are about a magical board game that implements real animals and other jungle elements as...
, another illustrated book by Van Allsburg, and references are made, both visual and textual, to
Jumanji.
Walter and Danny, two quarrelsome brothers, find the Jumanji game in the nearby park.
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[to Walter] You're such a dick.
[card reads 'Flunk Space Academy, Go Back 2 Spaces'] I'm not even going to comment on that.
Times change.
(to a robot) Bring me a juice box, bee-yotch!
Everything's your fault, it's your fault Mom and Dad got divorced!
Still think I have gorgeous eyes?
A new adventure from the world of Jumanji.
Adventure is waiting.
Zathura is an illustrated novel by the American author
Chris Van AllsburgChris Van Allsburg is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He won the Caldecott Medal for Jumanji and The Polar Express , both of which he wrote and illustrated, and both of which were later adapted into successful motion pictures...
as well as a
filmZathura is a 2005 fantasy film directed by Jon Favreau, based on the illustrated book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg, author of Jumanji. It starred Jonah Bobo as Danny and Josh Hutcherson as Walter. Tim Robbins also had a small role as the divorced father of Walter and Danny...
that was based on the book. In this book, two boys, Walter and Danny Budwing, home alone in a large
American CraftsmanThe American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, and decorative arts style popular from the last years of the 19th century through the early years of the 20th century...
house, discover a space-themed
board gameA board game is a game in which counters or pieces that are placed on, removed from, or moved across a "board"...
where everything inside it becomes real. The boys are eventually drawn into an
intergalacticIntergalactic may refer to:* Intergalactic space* Intergalactic travel, travel between galaxies in science fiction and speculation* "Intergalactic" , a song by the Beastie Boys...
adventure when their house is magically hurled through space. The plot is similar to
JumanjiJumanji is the title of a 1981 children's illustrated short story written and illustrated by the American author Chris Van Allsburg. It was made into a 1995 film of the same name. Both the book and the movie are about a magical board game that implements real animals and other jungle elements as...
, another illustrated book by Van Allsburg, and references are made, both visual and textual, to
Jumanji.
Walter and Danny, two quarrelsome brothers, find the Jumanji game in the nearby park. Danny looks deeper into the box, however, and discovers another game inside of it, Zathura. He starts playing, and Walter finds himself having to help his sibling rival to get home. To finish the game, they must endure a malfunctioning
gyroscopeA gyroscope is a device for measuring or maintaining orientation, based on the principles of angular momentum. A mechanical gyroscope is essentially a spinning wheel or disk whose axle is free to take any orientation...
, a
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shower, low gravity, a defective
robotA robot is a virtual or mechanical artificial agent. In practice, it is usually an electro-mechanical machine which is guided by computer or electronic programming, and is thus able to do tasks on its own...
, and invading Zorgon
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. The game is eventually "finished" when Walter is
sent back in timeTime travel is the concept of moving between different moments in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space, either sending objects backwards in time to a moment before the present, or sending objects forward from the present to the future without the need to...
prior to Zathura's playing by a
black holeIn general relativity, a black hole is a region of space in which the gravitational field is so powerful that nothing, not even light, can escape. The black hole has a one-way surface, called an event horizon, into which objects can fall, but out of which nothing can come...
.