The jungles of the Exotic East have never looked more beautiful, Colonial India has never seemed more majestic and the animals (many of which are animatronic figures indistinguishable from the real thing) never more stunningly real. This version is an extraordinarily sumptuous production. This was the third film version of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (1894) – the Disney animated version The Jungle Book (1967) was the second and had been preceded by an earlier live-action version Jungle Book (1942) from producer Alexander Korda. It was followed by other live-action remakes such as 101 Dalmatians (1996), Maleficent (2014), Cinderella (2015), Pete’s Dragon (2016), Beauty and the Beast (2017), Aladdin (2019), Dumbo (2019), Lady and the Tramp (2019), The Lion King (2019) and Mulan (2020), as well as revivals of live-action films such as Flubber (1997), That Darn Cat (1997), Freaky Friday (2003), Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005), The Shaggy Dog (2006), Race to Witch Mountain (2009), Tron Legacy (2010) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). In a trend that was no doubt inspired by the success of Steven Spielberg’s Hook (1991), The Jungle Book was the first in a fad where Disney started remaking their animation classics in live-action.
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