Here's What Young Alan From Jumanji Looks Like Today

Today, Adam Hann-Byrd doesn't look much like Robin Williams, but he's still in show business. However, his high-profile introduction to the Hollywood life as a young actor soon morphed into a more behind-the-scenes role. According to a bio on his personal website, he discovered he had a passion for writing while studying film and psychology at Wesleyan College. After graduating in 2004, he worked as a writer's assistant on shows like Fringe and The Librarians, and his work has also encompassed Hulu's The Morning After and a stint at J.J. Abrams' Bad Robot Productions. In 2011, he had a fellowship with Warner Bros. TV Writers Workshop as well.

"When you're acting, you're basically helping someone fulfill their vision," he told Halloween Daily News in 2014. "You've got your one little piece of the puzzle and you figure a way to kind of heighten that piece. You're going to throw yourself into it a hundred percent and bring something interesting to it, but at the end of the day you're coming at it from one angle, whereas I think when you do writing, you're thinking about how to fit that whole puzzle together."

Hann-Byrd has dabbled in other projects as both writer and actor, including appearing in a not-for-profit web series called Batgirl: Spoiled and providing the voice for the short-lived Pivot cable television network, which ran from 2013-2016. He released a children's book in 2016, called Clean Jimmy Sheen. Hello Giggles reports it has some Jumanji Easter eggs in it.