Walt Disney Pictures have announced another live-action take on Rudyard Kipling’s classic novel THE JUNGLE BOOK is in the works. After a host versions over the years, most famously it’s Disney’s 1967 animated classic that sticks out, while the most recent attempt came in the 1994 film starring Jason Scott Lee and directed by THE MUMMY and VAN HELSING’s Stephen Sommers.
If the name Justin Marks doesn’t resonate, I doubt mentioning his most high-profile screenplay for martial-acts sequel STREET FIGHTER: THE LEGEND OF CHUN-LI will help. Still, Marks will indeed be the man tasked in penning the script for this reboot. How this effects Warner Bros. efforts in developing their own take with Harry Potter franchise writer Steve Kloves adapting the book with a view to making it his directing debut, remains to be seen.
We’ll keep you posted as both projects develop.
Source: THR
