Disney has been looking into its fairy tale back catalogue with live-action versions of Alice In Wonderland and the upcoming Maleficent and Cinderella, but now they’re eyeing another of the animated classics for the big budget treatment, The Jungle Book.
THR reports that Disney has hired Justin Marks to write the script for a new live-action Jungle Book movie. It’s very early days yet though, as there are no producers or a director attached as yet.
There’s no news on the exact take the movie will take. A 1994 take on Rudyard Kipling’s tales saw Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli, surrounded by real but not talking animals. We’d imagine this take will be slightly more fantasy, with CGI talking critters, but we could be wrong.
It’s not the only live-action Jungle Book in the works though, as Warner Bros. is developing version with Steve Kloves (Harry Potter) writing.