It's safe to assume Disney isn't going to stop re-fashioning and re-packaging beloved entries in its 20th Century animated filmography as live-action fairy tale features for 21st Century audiences anytime soon, seeing as Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent, and the live-action Cinderella (2015) each grossed more than half a billion dollars in theaters worldwide alone (to say nothing of their tie-in merchandise and/or home viewing sales) - and Disney is already confident enough in The Jungle Book's box office prospects to have started development on a sequel. The studio has also claimed release dates for four as-yet unannounced live-action fairy tale movies for 2017-2019, with potential candidates including a Dumbo re-imagining directed by Burton, a sequel the the Sleeping Beauty re-telling Maleficent, and a Cruella de Vil origin story film starring Emma Stone (titled simply Cruella) - among many other films reported to be in development right now. The movie represents the continuation of a Disney trend that kicked off in 2010, when director Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland - inspired as much by the Mouse House's 1951 animated film as Lewis Caroll's original book - grossed more than $1 billion worldwide in theaters.ĭisney has an Alice sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass, slated to hit theaters this year in May, followed by the remake of the studio's 1977 film Pete's Dragon - which, unlike its peers, was a live-action/animation musical hybrid - and then the live-action musical Beauty and the Beast in 2017, again with the latter drawing more from Disney's 1991 animated movie than the much-older fairy tale that preceded it. The Jungle Book is but the latest fairy tale/fantasy story that Walt Disney Pictures has turned into a live-action/CGI tentpole, drawing inspiration largely from the studio's own previous animated film adaptation of the source material (in this case, Rudyard Kipling's 1894 novel of the same name).
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