



The movie was produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment and released theatrically in the United States on November 11th, 2005. Zathura: A Space Adventure was directed by Jon Favreau with a screenplay written by David Koepp and John Kamps. Zathura is a quasi-sequel to Jumanji in that both stories take place in the same continuity, but neither one directly references the other in the films. It is based on the 2002 children's book Zathura by author Chris Van Allsburg, who is also the author of the 1981 short story Jumanji, which was made into a film starring Robin Williams in 1995. Zathura: A Space Adventure, often abbreviated to just Zathura, is an American family film of the science fiction genre.
