Thursday, January 09, 2014

Alejandro González Iñárritu Closes "The Jungle Book"

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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