When you think of The Jungle Book, you somewhat naturally think of Disney’s ⛎‘toon ver🌼sion, with talking animals and brain-itchingly catchy tunes.

But Pathe and the BBC are aiming to change all that, ploughing $50 million (about £10.73 given the exchange rate right now) into a live-action version filled with chatty critters ꦏfilmed using the Beeb’s natural history unit and given voice thanks to CGI.

That story, for the three of you that have never heard it, follows Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves. When he’s kidnapped by monkeys and then rescued by animal pals Baloo the bear, Bagheera the p🥂anther and Kaa the python, he’s thrust into his most dangerous adventure – fighting the evil tiger Sher Khan. Downer kicks off shooting in September, but the whole film will take two years thanks to the complicated CG techniques.

Of course, all this is very exciting, but the companies involved seem to think they’r🌊e making the brave step into live-action, but seem to have forgotten the 1994 Stephen Sommers-directed effort. Then again, so has everyone else…

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