![]() George, grouchier than ever, still bears a scar on his face from the long-ago tournament incident. He sleeps on a forlorn couch in the basement of his parents' home. Chas walks by and slaps him on the back of the head, causing him to topple the tower of boxes. He gazes at a stack of shoeboxes piled improbably high and sighs deeply, thinking of what might have been. He works in a mall shoe store owned by Chas (Jason Bateman), who treats him horribly and who is now married to Noreen (Jennifer Aniston). ![]() Wes is now a scruffy, forty-something man played by Adam Sandler. The victorious Chas exits the high school gymnasium with Noreen on his arm, while George is taken off in a stretcher, unconscious. Wes knocks over the Jenga tower in such alarming fashion that one piece becomes airborne and hits George right in the face. Just when Wes seems on the verge of winning, Chas distracts him with an especially cruel taunt. Even Wes' normally distant father, George (Stacy Keach), has shown up for the event and sits in the front row. In the final round, he is pitted against rich kid and bully Chas Van Landingham, who has heretofore made Wes' life a living hell. An intramural Jenga championship is soon organized, and Wes deftly defeats a number of opponents. A severely nerdy high school kid, Wes Zwolinski (even his name means he's last at everything), develops an almost supernatural knack for the game, and his skills start to attract the attention of the other kids his age, including his longtime crush, Noreen. We start with a flashback to the late 1980s, when the first commercially-produced Jenga games hit the market. ![]() Why shouldn't it be me? I want to be the one to write this thing. With The Angry Birds Movie already in theaters and a Tetris movie on the way, it's only a matter of time before Jenga: The Movie is put into development at Universal or Paramount. I t's going to happen one way or another. C'mon, who else was realistically going to star in the Jenga movie?
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