Disney Making A Live-Action Version Of 'The Jungle Book'

By Angie Han July 9th, 2013

Alice in Wonderland's $1 billion box office take got Disney wondering which of their other animated features they could do over as live-action films. Not surprisingly, the answer has been "a lot of them." There's the Sleeping Beauty retelling Maleficent coming next year, and the Kenneth Branagh-directed Cinderella due out the year after that. The…

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'Harry Potter' Screenwriter Steve Kloves To Write And Direct 'The Jungle Book' For Warner Bros., While Disney Picks Up Neil Gaiman's 'The Graveyard Book'

By Russ Fischer April 27th, 2012

You'd think that Disney had the screen rights all sewn up for adaptations of Rudyard Kipling's story collection The Jungle Book. But in fact the book is public domain. (It was when Walt Disney set the animated film into motion, too.) And there have been a few live-action films over the years, some by Disney,…

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