The Jungle Book is an upcoming 2016 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Jon Favreau, written by Justin Marks, and produced by Walt Disney Pictures.
Based on Rudyard Kipling’s collective works of the same name, the film is a live-action/CGI reimagining of Walt Disney’s 1967 animated film of the same name.
The film stars and introduces Neel Sethi as Mowgli and features the voices of Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito and Christopher Walken. The film is scheduled to be released in the Disney Digital 3D, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D formats on April 15, 2016.