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The world was first introduced to the tales of jungle boy Mowgli in a series of short stories by English author Rudyard Kipling published in 1893. In 1967, it became Walt Disney Productions’ 19th animated feature.
It was the last film produced by Walt Disney himself before his death.
It was released in October, 1967, 10 months after the visionary’s passing.
The movie introduced the pop culture masses to Bagheera, Baloo and Co. and became a bonafide hit.
You have the Kipling stuff, which has a very strong, mythic theme—which is great for a big movie like that—I love big themes and a hero's journey…but then you also have this personality of the Walt Disney film, that although tonally is different than what we're doing, there's a lot of great images and feelings that I remembered from being a kid, that I'd love to incorporate using today's technology and story-telling techniques.
Along with Neel Sethi as Mowgli, the film features the voice talent of Bill Murray as Baloo.
As expected, the Internet lost its sh*t.
I Got The Weed For When We Go See The New 'Jungle Book' Because This Trailer Is Mesmerizing AF http://t.co/MakWmcHlyJ
The new Jungle Book film looks insane. Life of Pi on steroids
i could listen to Scarlett Johansson's voice in the new jungle book trailer for 1,682 years
If the new Jungle Book movie doesn't have King of the Swingers in it, there's gonna be heck to pay.................HECK I TELLS YA!!!
YouTuber Omer Eliraz made a pretty sweet mash-up featuring the 1967 and current footage.
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What many don’t remember, is that Disney *already* released a live-action version of The Jungle Book in 1994.
Lee’s big break had come seven years earlier as a wannabe cholo is the Cheech Marin vehicle Born in East L.A.
That's him second from left, ese.
The New York Times called Lee's Mowgli, "one exotic enough to convince young children that he grew up with wolves and tigers but handsome enough to be a teen-age heartthrob."
Bare necessities, indeed...
And playing Kitty, the center of the humid love triangle, was an ingenue by the name of Lena Headey.
Yup. Ages before breathing life into Game of Thrones’ Cersei Lannister, Headey was already starting to channel her inner badass, and stole the show.
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Spoiler alert: In the end, Kitty and Mowgli succumb to their own version of jungle fever and true love wins.
As we all know, her second marriage to one Robert Baratheon didn’t bode so well.
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