"I Want to Be Like You": 2 JUNGLE BOOK Redos Brewing

Written by Tara the Mom Wednesday, 20 June 2012 00:00

3d, animation

UPDATE: A second remake of The Jungle Book is now in the works, this one will be in 3D animation. Madagascar screenwriter Billy Frolick will adapt Rudyard Kipling's classic book about a boy adopted by jungle animals. Jun Falkenstein, director of The Tigger Movie, will co-direct with Kevin Johnson, whose credits include Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. DQ Entertainment Ireland Limited is launching its feature film business with The Jungle Book, which it intends to put into theaters in 2014. DQ Entertainment plans to put out at least two more movies adapted from classic literature.

April 30, 2012 -- Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" is getting another go, this time as a live-action film. In the book, orphan Mowgli is brought up by the animals in the jungle who protect him from the murderous tiger Shere Khan. Harry Potter screenwriter Steve Kloves is in talk to write, direct and produce the live-action redo. Disney has two versions of The Jungle Book: the 1967 musical animated classic and a 1994 live action version that didn't go over as well. This version would be from Warner Brothers which is fair: no one owns the rights to Kipling's work because it's so old it's public domain.

Source: Variety