Before Iron Man, Jon Favreau Directed This Sci-Fi Adventure Movie
Jon Favreau is an underrated titan of Hollywood. There's so much great stuff in his catalog that some of it gets unfairly drowned out. Back before his big break into multiple blockbuster franchises, he was best known as a comedic actor with an occasional eye toward the director's chair.
Today most recognizable as Happy Hogan throughout the MCU, or behind the camera as the creator of The Mandalorian, Favreau's first big project as director was the Will Ferrell comedy Elf. Two years after that Christmas hit, Favreau took over directing a children's book adaptation with some enormous pedigree behind it.
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Zathura: A Space Adventure came to the big screen in 2005, based on a novel released three years earlier. The novel, simply titled Zathura, was written by iconic children's novelist and illustrator Chris Van Allsburg. As every viewer noticed, the novel and film were set as a spiritual successor to Allsburg's earlier hit Jumanji. Much like that beloved work, Zathura is the tale of a family falling prey to a mysteriously powerful board game capable of transporting them to dangerous and fantastic places. This time, instead of the terrestrial horrors of Earth's jungles, the game transports its players into the unforgiving void of deep space. Much like Jumanji, there's plenty of family-friendly horror content throughout the misadventure. This evidently omnipotent board game falls at the feet of a handful of fun new characters.
Zathura is the tale of brothers Walter and Danny Budwing, watched over by their older sister Lisa. Walter, the eldest brother, is rude and dismissive towards his younger sibling. He is clearly reaching towards maturity against the influence of
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