Andy Serkis' Jungle Book Movie Mowgli Acquired By Netflix

Netflix has acquired director Andy Serkis ' live - action / CGIThe Jungle BookretellingMowglifrom Warner Bros. and plan to begin streaming the movie around the globe next year . The photographic film was most late specify to dispatch theatre of operations in October , but was schedule to go far in 2016 and then 2017 before that .

Written by Callie Kloves , Mowglihas been in development for around four long time , in no minuscule part to allow sufficient time to discharge the event on the film ’s digitally rendered animal ( who were portrayed via motion - seizure by the cast here ) . Rohan Chad play Mowgli himself in Serkis ' film , which has long been described as a darker adaption of Rudyard Kipling ’s source novel than Disney ’s celebrated 1967 animated picture and 2016 live - action / CGI blockbuster iteration , severally . WB releasedthe firstMowglitrailerless than two months ago and seemed ready at last to uncover Serkis ' repeat for the masses this decline . However , it turns out that ’s no longer the plan .

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Deadlineexclusively revealed that Netflix has picked up the worldwide rights toMowglifrom WB and is planning to begin stream the movie sometime next twelvemonth . Serkis , in a statement , toldDeadlinehe and Netflix are"circling dates"forMowgliat the second and talk in deepness about how the Netflix deal frees up his movie from comparison to Disney and manager Jon Favreau ’s lively - actionJungle Book(which only came out two old age ago ):

“ I ’m really excited about Netflix for Mowgli . Now , we avoid comparisons to the other movie and it ’s a relief not to have the air pressure . I ’ve seen the 3D version , and it ’s particular , a different scene from the 2D version , really lush and with great depth , and there will be some kind of theatrical component for that . What excites me most is the forward-moving thought at Netflix in how to portray this , and the substance of the movie . They understand this is a darker telling that does n’t fit it into a four quarter-circle slot . It ’s really not intend for young kids , though I think it ’s possible that 10 or above can watch it . It was always mean to be PG-13 , and this allows us to go deeply , with darker themes , to be scary and dreaded in minute . The violence between animal is not gratuitous , but it ’s definitely there . This manner of going allows us to get the film out without via media . "

As Serkis mark toDeadline , Mowgli is a significant " get " for Netflix , based alone on the film ’s scurf - which he says falls somewhere betweenLife of Piand one of thePlanet of the Apesmovies he ’s star in - and its A - inclination shape . That gang includes Serkis himself as Baloo the Bear , Christian Bale as Bagheera the panther , Naomie Harris as Mowgli ’s own wolf mom Nisha , Benedict Cumberbatch as the tiger Shere Khan , and Cate Blanchett as Kaa the snake . Similarly , this is the biggest acquisition by Netflix this year alone , after the cyclosis serve boughtThe Cloverfield Paradoxfrom Paramount and debut it Super Bowl Sunday Night this preceding February .

All things think , this move should benefitMowgli . In plus to the comparisons to Favreau ’s Kipling adaptation , Serkis ' film was present some plastered competition at the October box office ( including , Blumhouse’sHalloween ) , and may have ended up getting lost in the hassle , no matter of how it was receive critically . Mowglinow has a much good shoot at receive more people to curb it out , pass on that it shall be available to watch throughNetflixfrom the get - go . Meanwhile , the streaming service itself seems to be get a moderately decent deal here , what with the film having already been shot and perchance even being done with post - production , at this stage .