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Jungle alive

New release: Mowgli and friends.

A new $50 million film version of Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is set to be made using wildlife footage. The project, a joint venture between BBC Films and Pathe, will mix action shot in India with film of trained animals to make them appear to talk. Director John Downer says the result will be a reinterpretation of the story “as the author intended”. The new film — which Disney made into a hit cartoon in 1967 — is expe cted to be ready for release in 2009. The tiger reserve of Ranthambore in India will be used as the backdrop for the film, which is due to begin preparations for shooting later this year. The images from India will be intercut with jungle sets in the U.K. Pathe are to distribute the film across the world.

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