Andy Serkis to Direct 'Mowgli' For WB

[kvz5]

It got a huge premiere event in India. Serkis, Pinto, and Bale were there. Fun trivia from the press rounds: Bale has known Serkis since he was 19 years old!

 

[DarkKnight88]

Isn't the live-action Disney Jungle Book the biggest grossing Hollywood movie there?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

There is no risk attached to this project since WB already offloaded it to Netflix.

I guess WB was well compensated by the streaming co. for the rights to the movie and WB saved a lot of money that they would have had to spent to promote a 150m+ budgeted movie.

Risk? No, they know they are losing a lot of money on this already.

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

It got a huge premiere event in India. Serkis, Pinto, and Bale were there. Fun trivia from the press rounds: Bale has known Serkis since he was 19 years old!

Both of them started acting around the same time, so I'm not surpised. Bale's been around forever.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Risk? No, they know they are losing a lot of money on this already.

I was implying that there isn't more money to be lost from WB's pov.

They have already cut their losses in terms of P&A cost since they have f**kall to do with the same after giving up the rights to the movie to Netflix and the streaming giants must have offered enough money to WB that will compensate for residuals and after profit participation points for the cast.

I imagine WB won't fully recover the cost that was allocated for principal photography, re-shoots & post production (Serkis managed to prepare the final cut while Mowgli was still a WB movie) but Netflix must've offered them a pretty sum for the major studio to abandon a known IP at the last moment.

 

[Melpardus]

Isn't the live-action Disney Jungle Book the biggest grossing Hollywood movie there?

Yes.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

Isn't the live-action Disney Jungle Book the biggest grossing Hollywood movie there?

Yes.

Nope. TJB was the top dog here for two years but A:IW has annexed it (43.5m for A:IW to 38.8m for TJB).

A4 has a great chance to break the current record. Aladdin will be a contender for the spot as well (it has nostalgia and awareness levels matching or even exceeding that of TJB at 2016). Captain Marvel will be a wildcard since it somehow broke a trailer view record here in India so it may blow up big time.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I was implying that there isn't more money to be lost from WB's pov.

They have already cut their losses in terms of P&A cost since they have f**kall to do with the same after giving up the rights to the movie to Netflix and the streaming giants must have offered enough money to WB that will compensate for residuals and after profit participation points for the cast.

I imagine WB won't fully recover the cost that was allocated for principal photography, re-shoots & post production (Serkis managed to prepare the final cut while Mowgli was still a WB movie) but Netflix must've offered them a pretty sum for the major studio to abandon a known IP at the last moment.

I think the most likely scenario was they realized how bad this was going to bomb, and thus they cut their losses. Remember how long this took to even get made, and even then how long it has been since they wrapped filming. They were looking for a way to dump it, and they found it, minimizing their damage, but there is no way they are coming out in the black on this one. Netflix didn't have to offer them that much for this to happen, because the other option wasn't appealing for WB. At all.

 

[THORin]

I've been seeing good reviews from the Mumbai premiere. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[scarlet-witch]

^I'm happy for that. I just feel bad for Serkis about this whole thing. Granted, I didn't like the approach he took with how the animals look, but he's just such a likable guy. I want him to win.

 

[Melpardus]

Nope. TJB was the top dog here for two years but A:IW has annexed it (43.5m for A:IW to 38.8m for TJB).

A4 has a great chance to break the current record. Aladdin will be a contender for the spot as well (it has nostalgia and awareness levels matching or even exceeding that of TJB at 2016). Captain Marvel will be a wildcard since it somehow broke a trailer view record here in India so it may blow up big time.

Ah, okay. I know it was the top earner for a while but Wikipedia hasn't updated the Jungle Book page yet to reflect Infinity War.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Captain Marvel will be a wildcard since it somehow broke a trailer view record here in India so it may blow up big time.

So strange. Wonder what the appeal there would be?

Avengers and Jungle Book make sense.

 

[THORin]

Just watched the last trailer for this again, and compared it to the Jungle Book trailers - this one is so much better! I like that this one is going a more serious route.

 

[THORin]

Well, Grace Randolph really liked it!

 

[Schlosser85]

Grace Randolph is a POS.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Well, Grace Randolph really liked it!

Well considering Grace Randolph is Grace Randolph, I am curious how that is a good sign.

Anyways, not going too well with actual critics. 45% with a 5.5 average, after 22 reviews.

Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)

 

[Broseph44]

Well, Grace Randolph really liked it!

Grace is an ******* though so. I mean I’m not one of these people who follows critics and their reviews or RT. I just see a film and go from there. But yeah she is horrible.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Who is Grace Randolph?

Nope. TJB was the top dog here for two years but A:IW has annexed it (43.5m for A:IW to 38.8m for TJB).

A4 has a great chance to break the current record. Aladdin will be a contender for the spot as well (it has nostalgia and awareness levels matching or even exceeding that of TJB at 2016). Captain Marvel will be a wildcard since it somehow broke a trailer view record here in India so it may blow up big time.

Interesting info.

 

[Iceman]

Nope. TJB was the top dog here for two years but A:IW has annexed it (43.5m for A:IW to 38.8m for TJB).

A4 has a great chance to break the current record. Aladdin will be a contender for the spot as well (it has nostalgia and awareness levels matching or even exceeding that of TJB at 2016). Captain Marvel will be a wildcard since it somehow broke a trailer view record here in India so it may blow up big time.

Thanks for that. I love getting inside info from guys on here for territories that we haven't got enough info on. Really interesting seeing how tastes differ from the West too. It looks like the MCU is very well placed there for the future given how well IW did (and especially judging by some the crazy cinema audience reaction videos ).

 

[Melpardus]

Not to say that it isn't inevitable, but looking at the Rotten Tomatoes critics reviews makes me quite disappointed that direct comparison to both the 2016 and 1967 Disney versions seems to be hurting the film at least in part. (I say this as someone who is certainly going to have a hard time not thinking "What the **** is that!?" every couple scenes.)

That said, audiences seem to like it a fair amount; it's got an 84% as of the time of posting (and 48% among registered critics at the moment).

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Who is Grace Randolph?

You lucky, lucky man.

 

[Schlosser85]

No one of the slightest relevance.

 

[Boom]

This whole directing thing doesn't seem to be panning out for Serkis.

 

[Schlosser85]

Breathe was "fine", but it was very standard-issue Theory of Everything-esque "inspirational biopic". Well-made, well-acted, etc., but by the numbers.

 

[THORin]

Anyways, not going too well with actual critics. 45% with a 5.5 average, after 22 reviews.

"Actual" critics.