My only issue with them, honestly, is that they feel like unnecessary accessories to an animated movie that’s already great.īut with The Jungle Book, we have a source material that has so much potential as a live-action movie with updated special effects. And they’re not terrible movies or anything. Sure, Maleficent and Alice and Wonderland already tried this by extending their stories and putting more emphasis on the villains. It’s the first Disney remake I’ve come across that seems like it could bring something new to the original story. Even if you’re not very interested in the Jungle Book franchise, I think you’ll still find something unique to latch onto as we learn more about this movie. Now, we have the first teaser trailer for Disney’s next retelling of The Jungle Book, and it provides a lot of information that will intrigue longtime fans of the story. We honestly don’t have time to get into that, but I will mention that it has a stellar cast. Also, an unrelated movie called Jungle Book: Origins will be coming out in 2017, and it’s being made by Andy Serkis and Warner Bros. Oh, and I guess I have to mention that the first Jungle Book movie ever came out in the 1940s, decades before Disney got to work on it.
For context, this is the studio that brought us Planes and Planes: Fire and Rescue. I’ve never seen it, and I honestly don’t intend to anytime soon. There was also an animated Jungle Book sequel made by DisneyToon (they make the majority of Disney’s direct-to-video movies) in 2003. Yet many people still scolded the film for veering so far away from Kipling’s original stories, not that the animated film did a good job of this. It borrowed stories from both The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, and it was actually well-received by both audiences and critics. You may not remember this (I certainly didn’t), but Disney already did a live-action remake for this movie in 1994.
And with 2015’s live-action Cinderella being such a big hit, remaking the last film Walt Disney ever produced was inevitable.
This, of course, is not a surprise due to the successes of Alice in Wonderland and Maleficent. The Jungle Book is Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of the 1967 animated film of the same name.
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