Deadline reports that filmmaker
Alejandro González Iñárritu has left talks to direct a new live-action adaptation of
Rudyard Kipling's classic India-set 1894
short story collection "The Jungle Book" at
Warner Bros. The dreaded scheduling conflicts are seemingly the reason for Inarritu's departure.
The pic will be a live action version of the story about
an orphaned boy raised by wolves and other animals, which try to protect
him from the ferocious tiger Shere-Khan. The tone will be a bit darker
than previous film adaptations of the work
The most well known of which are the
1967 animated classic and the
Stephen Sommers directed
1994 live-action live-action version starring
Jason Scott Lee,
Lena Headey and
Cary Elwes.
Callie Kloves wrote the adapted script and
Steve Kloves will produce.
The search for a replacement is underway.
Since the property is in the public domain
Disney is
developing it's own film that "
Iron Man" director
Jon Favreau is in talks to helm using a
Justin Marks script.
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