The Jungle Book Live-Action Trailer Is Visually Astounding, Unnecessarily Gritty

[Tireseas_v1legacy]

That movie had no more to do with the Jungle Book than The Lion King did with Hamlet.

Wasn't the Lion King essentially a version of Hamlet with the third act reworked to be less depressing?

 

[BoredRolePlayer]

All I gotta say is "obbi do, I wanna be like youuoouuou. I wanna walk like you, talk like you tooouoouoo"


Can't help it, I freaking loved this song as a kid

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

What rating are they aiming for? It doesn't *feel* PG13 to me, then again, movie trailers of late have seem to be very misleading.

 

[Shinkicker444]

It's ScarJo.
Kaa was male both in the book and the Disney movie.
Looks like they're making Kaa into a villain again. Shame cause he's an ally in the book.

Could just be going the deception route with Kaa, make her(I guess...) out to look like someone untrustworthy and stuff in the trailer. But the actual movie is not quite as blatant, to cover for the help that might happen later towards the end. They have done it before after all.

I'm curious how it will go, I watched both the other movies and read the book when I was but a wee lad, but for the life of me I can't remember squat about it really. Except for Kaa, Bagheera and some British colonials.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Technically outstanding, I'm sure, but visually generic as hell. Not that the animated movie was amazing -I was actually sort meh about that one as well- but at least it had a shit ton of personality and charm thanks to the fantastic animation. This movie just looks realistic -No style or atmosphere, just realism.

 

[Hawki]

So Ka's a female now?

Weird point, but my favorite moment of the trailer was seeing Bagheera fighting with Khan. Bagheera was perhaps my favorite character in both the Jungle Book and Jungle Cubs, in that he's probably the sanest person of the bunch, yet gets the short end of the stick all the time, whether it be Mowgli running away, or the other cubs making his life hell. Oh, and being voiced by Ben Kingsley is also a plus.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I actually think it look alright, I don't really see the "gritty" part to it as for one thing, it is colourful compared to the gritty grey or brown those grimdark media tend to have.

 

[P-89 Scorpion]

Hey don't forget there's the Andy Serkis directed Jungle Book Origins coming out in 2017.

Starring
Andy Serkis as Baloo.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Shere Khan.
Christian Bale as Bagheera.
Cate Blanchett as Kaa.

 

[Kahani]

dunno, maybe I'm alone in thinking a movie about singing orangutans voiced by Louis Prima wasn't meant for the gritty reboot treatment.

Probably a good job that this isn't a reboot of anything then. Different adaptations of a book are not necessarily reboots of each other, any more than you could consider a Shakespeare performance to be a reboot of a previous performance. As it is, the "gritty reboot treatment" here actually appears to be a far more faithful adaptation of the source material than the Disney version, which really had very little to do with the book other than the character names.

 

[JohnZ117]

Also did they make the Python turn into a female? The voice sounds feminine to be honest.

So Kaa's a female now?

At least among the constrictors, boas and pythons, female snakes are typically larger than their male counterparts. Gender-switching the large and long character makes sense to me.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

It's ScarJo.
Kaa was male both in the book and the Disney movie.
Looks like they're making Kaa into a villain again. Shame cause he's an ally in the book.

Could just be going the deception route with Kaa, make her(I guess...) out to look like someone untrustworthy and stuff in the trailer. But the actual movie is not quite as blatant, to cover for the help that might happen later towards the end. They have done it before after all.

I'm curious how it will go, I watched both the other movies and read the book when I was but a wee lad, but for the life of me I can't remember squat about it really. Except for Kaa, Bagheera and some British colonials.

It's more or less like the Disney movie, except in the book Kaa's an ally to Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera's personalities are reversed (Bagheera's the laid back fun guy, Baloo is all about responsibilities), the episode with the monkeys is there but there's no King Louie or any one leader, Shere Khan is offed halfway into the book (by Mowgli), Mowgli's inception into human society doesn't happen at the end nor does it sever his ties with his animal buddies like the movie implies and generally there's a more episodical structure in the novel, which includes several stories that have nothing to do with Mowgli.

 

[Petromir]

dunno, maybe I'm alone in thinking a movie about singing orangutans voiced by Louis Prima wasn't meant for the gritty reboot treatment.

Probably a good job that this isn't a reboot of anything then. Different adaptations of a book are not necessarily reboots of each other, any more than you could consider a Shakespeare performance to be a reboot of a previous performance. As it is, the "gritty reboot treatment" here actually appears to be a far more faithful adaptation of the source material than the Disney version, which really had very little to do with the book other than the character names.

The internet commands me to point out that this is Disney making it, as both are Disney productions the Disney version doesn't make sense in context, Disney animation would be far better.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Christian Bale as Bagheera.

"I want you off the fucking jungle, Mowgli! You and me are done professionally".

 

[Darth Rosenberg]

Malick-ian visuals!!

Eh, no... Malick's visuals have soul and beautifully naturalistic photography captured in-camera and wholly on set, whilst this crappy CG-fest looked--- well, blandly CG.

Colour me spectacularly disinterested.

It did remind me that I don't own the animated Jungle Book, though, so that's a positive.

 

[happyninja42]

Unnecessarily gritty? I don't see it. It seemed just fine to me.

 

[loa]

It looks like another remix of every other trailer ever.
It's impossible to make a judgement call if none of the other characters even speak.

 

[PunkRex]

Aaah, little boy, I just... wanna... be lyke yhooo.
~Baloo jumps in and rescues Mowgli~

Capcha: IT HURTS
Oh calm down Capcha, it wasn't that bad.

 

[Fdzzaigl]

It looks alright, but why is the orangutan the size of king kong? Or is Mowgli sized like a smurf?

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I thought the snake was a guy, or am I wrong? I didn't read the book, and haven't seen the cartoon in ages.
Doesn't matter to me either way.
I'm just here to say the "Bear Necessities" whistle at the end made me giggle.