What is "zathura"

Zathura is an illustrated children's book by the American author Chris Van Allsburg as well as the title of a 2005 film based on the book. Two boys are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is magically hurled through space. The book is a sequel to Jumanji, another illustrated book by Van Allsburg, and references are made, both visual and textual, to Jumanji.

Zathura: A Space Adventure (or just Zathura) is a 2005 American science fantasy adventure film directed by Jon Favreau, and is loosely based on the illustrated book Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg, author of Jumanji. The film stars Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo, Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart, and Tim Robbins.

The film was shot in Los Angeles and Culver City, California and was released on November 11, 2005 by Columbia Pictures. Unlike the book, the film contains no Jumanji material and does not mention any Jumanji events. The film was however marketed as a spiritual sequel with varying statements of the tagline, "A new adventure from the world of Jumanji". Despite positive reviews from critics, Zathura was a box office disappointment.

Zathura may refer to:

• Zathura, an illustrated novel by the American author Chris Van Allsburg.
• Zathura (film), a film directed by Jon Favreau, released in November 2005, based on an illustrated book by Chris Van Allsburg.
• Zathura (video game), a video game based on the movie for PlayStation 2 and Xbox, published by 2K Games, developed by High Voltage Software and released Nov 03, 2005.
• Zathura (document viewer), a document viewer named after the movie.

Zathura is a free, plugin-based document viewer. Plugins are available for PDF (via poppler or MuPDF), PostScript, DjVu, and EPUB. It was written to be lightweight and controlled with vim-like keybindings. Zathura's customizability makes it well-liked by many Linux users.

Zathura has a mature, well-established codebase and a large development team. It has official packages available in Arch linux, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Ubuntu, OpenBSD, and Mac OS X.

Zathura was named after the film of the same name.