Actor Gillan shows off her action skills as Jumanji trailer reveals latest adventure

THE first trailer for the new Jumanji film sees Karen Gillan showing off her action skills as a scantily-clad, Amazonian warriortype game character.

The Scots actress Gillan joins Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black in the forthcoming action film – a continuation of the original which was released in 1995 and starred the late Robin Williams.

Called Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle, the movie sees four teenagers sucked into the world of the dastardly game while in detention, and forced to fight for their lives.

Having been upgraded, Jumanji is now a video game instead of the board game seen in the first film, and the students are

Karen Gillan stars as warrior-type character.

immediately thrust into it having assumed the bodies of their chosen avatars.

They quickly discover that they do not play Jumanji, but that it plays them, and they are forced to face an incredibly dangerous adventure that could see them stuck in the game forever.

Gillan, from Inverness who made her name playing Matt Smith’s companion in Doctor Who, plays Ruby Roundhouse, the avatar chosen by Martha (Morgan Turner), and she reveals her impressive abilities in the clip.

Another highlight from the trailer is the moment Black’s character Professor Shelley Oberon – chosen by self-obsessed, beautiful teen Bethany (Madison Iseman) – appears utterly crestfallen to be an “overweight, middle-aged man”.

The film will arrive in cinemas in December.