Scarlett Johansson is in talks to reteam with Jon Favreau for the third time, along with Lupita Nyong'o, for The Jungle Book.
Despite having a supporting role in Iron Man 2, Scarlett Johansson has stayed a close collaborator with director Jon Favreau. After all, she appears in Favreau’s infinitely charming Chef next month. And now she has been approached alongside 12 Years a Slave’s Lupita Nyong’o to appear in Favreau’s next directorial effort, The Jungle Book.
As reported in The Hollywood Reporter, Johansson is in talks to voice the role of Kaa, a python that eats other animals by hypnotizing them. She is a major villain for boy hero Mogwgli, behind only the dastardly tiger Shere Khan (Idris Elba), himself. Nyong’o meanwhile is in talks to star as the voice of Rakcha, the mother wolf that adopts and raises ther heroic child.
Kipling’s The Jungle Book was a collection of stories first published in magazines during 1893 and 1894. In 1895, a The Second Jungle Book was produced chronicling the later adventures of an older Mowgli. These stories served as the inspiration for the Walt Disney Animation Classic The Jungle Book in 1967. Disney also distributed a moderately successful adaptation of the books in 1994 directed by Stephen Sommers (yes that Stephen Sommers) starring Carey Elwes and Lena Headey.
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