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Mowgli and his wolf-mother bid each other farewell in a touching moment.
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Does the film universe need two live-action, CGI-boosted versions of The Jungle Book? Apparently so, as both Disney and Warner Bros. want to dig their computer-animated claws into Rudyard Kipling’s famed colonial-India screed.
WB’s version, which will count as motion-capture expert Andy Serkis’ directorial debut, won’t see the light of day until October 2018, which leaves Disney’s stab at the story as the only live-action option for some time. Lucky for us, this Disney-fied version doesn’t just win by default.
Give equal credit to Jon Favreau as director and Moving Picture Company as visual effects overseers. They had to contend with some serious baggage—namely, Disney’s own hokey, Kipling-crippling cartoon version from 1967—and still came away with a warm, touching, and jaw-droppingly gorgeous film that has somehow split the difference between family-friendliness and the book’s original vision.
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