04-24-2014, 02:18 PM | #1 |
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Jungle Book remake
Seems there's not one but TWO Jungle Book movies coming out. One by Disney, one by Warner Bros.
No word on who's playing who in the Warner Bros version but in the new Disney version (a hybrid film BTW) Idris Elba has been cast as Sher Khan. 12 Years A Slave actress Lupita Nyong'o is up for the role of the She-Wolf. And in the oddest casting IMO is Scarlet Johansson who is up for the role of Kaa. The heck?! http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrit...=1440_54732923
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04-24-2014, 04:44 PM | #2 |
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Hm... I wonder how Disney's will play out. That was the one pre-Pixar Disney animated film that I liked.
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04-24-2014, 04:49 PM | #3 |
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I think it'd be cool if Kaa were a female character, but I'd like Kaa to be portrayed as heroic, like in the original Kipling stories.
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04-25-2014, 11:54 AM | #4 |
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I don't like this idea, Baloo was so awesome and fun in the original film, I don't want that changed thank you
While I love the animated Robin Hood flick I could see that being as a better film to be remade. Why not just think of original ideas though? Walt Disney I don't think would be too happy about this either, wasn't the Jungle Book the last film to be done by him? |
09-15-2015, 10:33 AM | #5 |
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Figured I'd resurrect this thread instead of making a new one. Disney has just released the trailer. It actually looks pretty epic!
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That...that's a good one.
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It's got a great voice cast and it's by Jon Favreau, so I'm still giving it the benefit of the doubt, but this first trailer did nothing for me. Also, ScarJo as Kaa was a little odd. I did like the "trussssst in me" quote, though.
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The trailer was pretty good, at the end of the trailer, was a homage to a classic scene of the original. you hear Baloo whistling the Bear Necessities
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Thank you, Captain Obvious.
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On the one hand, you don't have to worry about them frakking anything up. But on the other... do we really want to pay money to see the same movie, just with updated effects? Discuss!!! Or, y'know... don't. Whatever.
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I'd prefer something closer to the source material, to be perfectly honest.
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That would actually be a great way to distinguish between the two films; faithful Kipling script and Disney remake script.
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09-15-2015, 11:57 AM | #14 |
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Kaa- heroic? I don't remember that in the original story. IIRC correctly, he always just wanted to eat Mowgli. Giant python does NOT = "hero". More like slow death.... I'm tempted to see this one, just because it was one of my favorites.
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I think the biggest thing about this trailer is that Mowgli is a kid. A forreal, believable child. That crap blows my mind.
Also, it really looks like they're putting more money into this than their other live-action remakes. None of those movies had a cast like this, either. They're going all in. |
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Ok Disney. You got me. I'll be in theatres for this. I wasn't keen on Scarlet Johannson as Kaa before but that right there pulled me in. Yeah the animals are mostly CGI but eh it seems to work.
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Yeah at least he is a kid like he is supposed to be though I would like to have seen the other characters speak.
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Kaa was a very, very wise snake in the original story and was one of Mowgli's mentors and an ally. If I remember correctly he even hypnotized and ate the monkeys that kidnapped Mowgli in the original story as punishment for their actions. Balloo was also a very wise character and not at all goofy like how he is in the Disney cartoon movie, he teaches Mowgli the laws of the jungle.
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So at least one of the songs are in in this movie, cool.
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