Andy Serkis Jungle Book will now debut in October of 2018.
Warner Brothers have been looking at their upcoming release schedule and have moved around quite a few of their planned release dates. Bad news is that Andy Serkis Jungle Book delayed by a year. More on The Jungle Book delay below.
Following the news, which reached us via Deadline, Serkis posted an immediate update on his Facebook page, and it looks like they’re pushing the film back for all of the right reasons.
I’ve got to say that personally I’m absolutely thrilled that Warner Brothers have changed the delivery date of Jungle Book: Origins. The ambition for this project is huge. What we are attempting is an unprecedented level of psychological and emotional nuance in morphing the phenomenal performances of our cast into the facial expressions of our animals. We are breaking new ground with realistic non-humanoid animal faces ,such as a panther or wolf, ensuring that they convincingly communicate with human language and emotion via performance capture, and are able to stand up to real scrutiny in richly complex dramatic scenes. So, every minute more that we have to evolve the technological pipeline will make all the difference…the evidence is there already and it’s off the chain exciting, so hang on in there…This is truly next generation storytelling, and it will be the real deal!
The Serkis-directed version of The Jungle Book has moved from from October 6, 2017 to October 19, 2018, which will end up being two and a half years after Disney’s The Jungle Book, which will debut in the U.K. and the U.S. next week, April 15th, 2016. The film has been getting some pretty decent reviews, but we’re sure that Serkis, with his motion capture experience is planning something all-together different and indeed quite special.
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