A new Disney-produced live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book is in appearing to be in the works at the House of Mouse.
Disney has acquired the services of Justin Marks to pen the adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s collected stories on the lives of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the jungles of India. Marks is currently best known for his screenplay for the video game adaptation of Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li, but he has also written a number of yet-unproduced scripts, including a cinematic take on Green Arrow and a version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea at Disney, which David Fincher was interested in.
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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