Fantasy Disney Making a Live-Action Version of 'The Jungle Book'

[nite-owl]

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/jungle-book-live-action-reboot-582283

Disney is swinging into development on a live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling’s classic set of fables based in India. Justin Marks has been hired to pen the script.


The Jungle Book stories are in the public domain and are so popular that Warner Bros. is developing its own Mowgli adventure. Steve Kloves, who wrote the majority of the Harry Potter movies, is writing that script.
Disney’s take is in the early stages, and the project has no producers attached. A search for a director is underway.

Marks penned an early draft of Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea reboot, which at the time was being produced by Sean Bailey, now the studio’s production president. He also wrote The Raven, based on the hot Internet short, which is being produced by Mark Wahlberg and has Ricardo de Montreuil directing for Gold Circle and Universal.

I bet you Johnny Depp ends up starring as Mowgli.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I bet it has a 250 million dollar budget.

 

[gohei_]

That's surprising. Man it's been many years since I saw the first one. Live action that is.

 

[Octoberist]

It's so strange to me that Mowgli was a grown man in the 90's live action version. As much as I liked it as a kid, it just becomes Tarzan.

The Jungle Book should be about an adolescent.

UPDATE: I had NO IDEA THAT LENA HEDLEY WAS IN THE 90'S FILM. HOLY CRAP! I think she's much prettier now then how she looked back then; not to say she wasn't back in the 90's but I like the hard edge she has now. Tough if you will. She's one of those people who aged into beauty, I suppose.

 

[Lencho01]

Justin Marks?

Ook...

 

[Sawyer]

Keep your ****ing budgets in check, Disney...

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

You would think after The Lone Ranger that Disney would be putting projects like this on hold, I guess not.

 

[Sawyer]

"Projects like this" = everything Disney does that isn't Marvel/Pixar/Star Wars?

They can do their **** but they reeeeally need to stop throwing wads of cash around like the stuff is going out of style.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Keep your ****ing budgets in check, Disney...

Why? How in the world does it effect you?

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

Well to me this seems as "big-budget" as The Lone Ranger did, so I guess they really have no problem gambling on projects with Marvel and Pixar in their back pocket.

 

[Sawyer]

Why? How in the world does it effect you?

Where in my post did I make it sound AT ALL like it effects me? Please, enlighten me.

 

[Octoberist]

Why? How in the world does it effect you?

It's ruining our MARRIAGE!

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Where in my post did I make it sound AT ALL like it effects me? Please, enlighten me.

Why do they need to keep their budget in check?

You write here-

"Projects like this" = everything Disney does that isn't Marvel/Pixar/Star Wars?

They can do their **** but they reeeeally need to stop throwing wads of cash around like the stuff is going out of style.

Why do they need to do this? Who are you to tell them they need to?

 

[Sawyer]

Why do they need to keep their budget in check?

You write here-


Why do they need to do this? Who are you to tell them they need to?

Nice job side-stepping my question there.

 

[redfirebird2008]

I thought they already made a live action version of this?

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Nice job side-stepping my question there.

If it doesn't effect you, why are you saying they need to keep their budgets in check? Is that hard to understand? Or are you simply going to keep avoiding that because your original post is ridiculous?

 

[Ultimatehero]

The budget can be whatever Disney wants it to be. They have the power now to truly go after their passion projects and they've been trying to make a live action version of this for a long time now. I just really hope that they agree that talking animals is the way to go. The animals talked in the book and in Walt's version, classics. The animals took a major backseat and weren't really given a personality in the 90s live action version - probably forgotten except for the people who grew up around there. So whatever budget will make this the best version that it can possibly be - go all out with it. They're strong enough to now.

 

[Sawyer]

If it doesn't effect you, why are you saying they need to keep their budgets in check? Is that hard to understand? Or are you simply going to keep avoiding that because your original post is ridiculous?

No, what's ridiculous is spending $250 million on a western in this day and age, all the while trying to aim it at a younger audience.

 

[Ultimatehero]

No, what's ridiculous is spending $250 million on a western in this day and age, all the while trying to aim it at a younger audience.

Disney has always been about family films. People complaining and saying they want a dark gritty Disney haven't ever gotten that, so look elsewhere for that.

It's their money - they can spend it however they want to spend it.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

No, what's ridiculous is spending $250 million on a western in this day and age, all the while trying to aim it at a younger audience.

How is it ridiculous when they can more then afford it, and it means they roped Johnny Depp into a couple more Pirates films?

Disney could randomly burn $250mil every year, and they will still make billions in profits.

 

[Octoberist]

I wouldn't go that far, because why would Disney purposely burn 250 million for fun? Bad example!

 

[Asgard]

Knowing Disney theyre going to drop another 200+ million for ****s and giggles.

I used to have a VHS copy of the Jason Scott Lee version. I remember it being alright.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I wouldn't go that far, because why would Disney purposely burn 250 million for fun? Bad example!

Perhaps they would burn it to honor a money making deity? Perhaps they burn it to honor Johnny Depp?

 

[Sawyer]

I never claimed to have any stake in this. I never said this effects me. However, if Disney is gonna roll out $250 million dollars and use it as toilet paper, I have every right to look at that and say "Hey... that's idiotic."

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I never claimed to have any stake in this. I never said this effects me. However, if Disney is gonna roll out $250 million dollars and use it as toilet paper, I have every right to look at that and say "Hey... that's idiotic."

If you are talking about John Carter and The Lone Ranger, perhaps you should check why they were made. Namely as goodwill for people who have made them billions of dollars. Now they are getting Nemo 2 and Pirates 5. They will get more films in the future.

That isn't idiotic, that is good business.