New Trailer for Andy Serkis’ Mowgli Reveals Motion-Capture Marvel

A new look at Andy Serkis’ Mowgli has arrived, revealing the motion-capture master’s gorgeous take on the Rudyard Kipling classic “Jungle Book.” Yet there’s more good news to share here, courtesy of Netflix—the streaming service has given us a new Mowgli trailer and revealed they’ll be giving Serkis’ adaptation a theatrical release. The new film (now titled Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle) will be a departure from Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book for Disney,

Mowgli Will Premiere on Netflix Next Year

There was already steadily growing buzz surrounding Andy Serkis’ Mowgli, but the roar just grew a few decibels louder.

Netflix had already purchased distribution of the cerebral sci-fi hit Annihilation and the hugely secretive Cloverfield Paradox, but the streaming service upped its game again when it acquired the rights to the Jungle Book­-inspired Mowgli, per Deadline.

Go Behind-the-Scenes of Andy Serkis’ Mowgli

In Andy Serkis’ new film Mowgli, the classic Rudyard Kipling children’s story “The Jungle Book” is getting an adaptation that is much closer in spirit to Kipling’s darker tone. The new trailer showed just how much Serkis was committed to capturing the story of a feral child torn between the home he has always known in the jungle, and the confusing, even more terrifying world of humans. Played by Rohan Chand, 

Mowgli Trailer Reveals Andy Serkis’ Darker Take on “The Jungle Book”

We can think of few better filmmakers to take another look at Ruyard Kipling’s iconic “The Jungle Book” about a feral child raised in the jungle than the multi-talented Andy Serkis. The actor, director and motion-capture trailblazer has been everywhere in recent years, from playing the chimpanzee Caesar in the consistently excellent Planet of the Apes trilogy to the gleeful super criminal Klaw in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther to the big bad Supreme Leader Snoke in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.