India-based animation house Dq Entertainment is launching a new theatrical feature division reports Deadline.
The first project being done is a $45 million stereoscopic 3D animated film based on the Rudyard Kipling classic "The Jungle Book".
Previous adaptations of the work include the 1967 animated classic and Stephen Sommers' 1994 live-action version starring Jason Scott Lee and Lena Headey. A new live-action version is also in development at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Jun Falkenstein and Kevin Johnson are co-directing from a script by Billy Frolick. Production is already underway with a 2014 release planned.
The first project being done is a $45 million stereoscopic 3D animated film based on the Rudyard Kipling classic "The Jungle Book".
Previous adaptations of the work include the 1967 animated classic and Stephen Sommers' 1994 live-action version starring Jason Scott Lee and Lena Headey. A new live-action version is also in development at Warner Bros. Pictures.
Jun Falkenstein and Kevin Johnson are co-directing from a script by Billy Frolick. Production is already underway with a 2014 release planned.
- 6/20/2012
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
You know how in prison movies, the new fish are sometimes taught that to establish their place in the pecking order, they should pick a fight with the biggest, baddest inmate to see if they can win some respect? That extremely stretched metaphor is our way of introducing the fact that someone has decided to make a new animated version of The Jungle Book.Of course, Rudyard Kipling’s stories have been adapted several times. It’s just that Disney’s 1967 effort is still considered a classic and is still being watched years later. None of that is putting a new India-based gaming and ‘toon company called Dq Entertainment off the idea, with a plan to craft a new version in shiny 3D.In rather more promising news, however, the company has recruited a former Disney staff member, Tigger Movie writer / director Jun Falkenstein, to direct the film, with Iron...
- 6/19/2012
- EmpireOnline
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