An early peek at 'The Jungle Book,' new Disney live-action remake of Kipling classic

[KarlS]

@jsroberts

I still think they should have genderswitched more of the main characters - Baloo, Bagheera or Shere Khan all seem like pretty good candidates.

I thought there was some tradition of a female Bagheera in translations/ foreign adaptations.

[ChuckV]

@jsroberts

I still think they should have genderswitched more of the main characters - Baloo, Bagheera or Shere Khan all seem like pretty good candidates.

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Trust In Me (1987)

[Max_Blancke]

When we saw the trailer, my son could not get past the fact that the characters are out of scale with each other.

[popobawa4u]

@jsroberts

I still think they should have genderswitched more of the main characters - Baloo, Bagheera or Shere Khan all seem like pretty good candidates.

I am not sure how I would know if they were switched. I don’t even know what genders (if any) they may have been in the first place.

[knoxblox]

I really can’t get past Scarlett Johansen as Kaa. I guess once you go with Sterling Holloway, it’s hard to measure up.

[jsroberts]

@popobawa4u

I am not sure how I would know if they were switched. I don’t even know what genders (if any) they may have been in the first place.

Apart from Raksha, they’re basically all male. I just think Kaa was the laziest of all the characters to genderswitch - the sly, seductive and deceptive one. Only the wolves act in a way that would reveal their gender, so you shouldn’t need to carry over human gender stereotypes or change the story at all in order to switch them. @KarlS I was mainly thinking of Bagheera too, although I do like Ben Kingsley as an actor.

[adonai]

Given the internet’s love and respect for furries, I wonder if scenes like this will be brought over to the new film…

[L_Mariachi]

Sun Bears live in the jungle.

Yeah, it does get pretty hot and humid, and that coat ain’t helping.

[L_Mariachi]

Shoot, for a second I thought by “live-action” you meant rotoscoped animation in the style of that excellent Vincent Aseo poster. That would have pleased me infinitely more than yet another bunch of CGI talking animals.