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EXCLUSIVE: Steve Kloves is making a deal to write, direct and produce The Jungle Book at Warner Bros. The film is a live action of the Rudyard Kipling classic about an orphaned boy raised by wolves and other animals, which try to protect him from the ferocious tiger Shere-Khan. The deal keeps Kloves in the Warner Bros fold, where he has been the backbone of the Harry Potter series, and most recently scripted Akira.
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Does this mean Disney only has rights for animated films and those specific ancillary rights as well?
Guess so.
Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer and novelist known for his focus on tales of British imperialism and children’s stories. He wrote a collection of short stories titled, The Jungle Book: Mowgli’s Story in 1894.
In 1973, Chuck Jones produced three animated TV adaptations from the collection. And in 1998 Disney made a live-action direct-to-video film based on Rudyard Kipling’s book of the same name.
Kipling’s novel, The Jungle Book, is firmly in the public domain so as long as the live action doesn’t, for instance, make Baloo a singing bear, it should be good.
It’ll be interesting to see what Kloves does with it.
Thanks for explaining the public domain issue.
Public domain.
I know disney’s version is by no stretch of imagination accurate, but to me that’s the definitive version of the story. It had a singing bear!
Very glad to see Kloves will finally be directing again. He’s way too good to give it up.
Do they think they can improve upon Disney’s version with Jason Scott Lee?
Oh, wait, that’s right, they need another shirtless role for Taylor Kitsch.
I wanted to do this! But i’m still a film student, so they’ll never pick me. Curses.
I just hope for the love of god, they don’t make this film cute and pg. I read the Mowgli stories.
The actual Mowgli Stories are very violent. Baloo the bear basically beat the shit out of Mowgli when ever he did something wrong. It was the violent beating that Mowgli feared. So the bear literally whipped him into shape to survive in the jungle. There is also some arguably racist undertones through-out. It is not a kid’s book!! This movie has the potential to be amazing if they stop trying to appeal to kid’s. It’s been done over and over, and never rings. Get a fucking clue.
Give us something dark and real and we’ve got a good project on our hands. Anything else and this will fail.
The Korda version with Sabu is still the best.