The Jungle Book - actors, characters and roles
All actors and their roles in the film "The Jungle Book"
The Jungle Book (2016)
Timing:
1:46 (106 min)
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Actors and characters
Brighton Rose
Character Gray (voice)
Max Favreau
Character Young Wolf #2 (voice)
Chloe Hechter
Character Young Wolf #3 (voice)
Asher Blinkoff
Character Young Wolf #4 (voice)
Knox Gagnon
Character Young Wolf #5 (voice)
Sasha Schreiber
Character Young Wolf #6 (voice)
Kai Schreiber
Character Young Wolf #7 (voice)
Madeleine Favreau
Character Raquel the Rhino (voice)
Kendrick Reyes
Character Infant Mowgli
Sara Arrington
Character Neelgai Deer (voice)
Artie Esposito
Character Animal Voices (voice)
Sean W. Johnson
Character Animal Voices (voice)
Daz Crawford
Character Shere Kahn (mo-cap) (uncredited)
What's left behind the scenes
- The character Baloo is voiced by Bill Murray. In the film "The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story" (1998), this same character was voiced by his older brother, Brian Doyle-Murray.
- For the first time in history, Kaa is portrayed as a female character.
- When creating the images of talking animals, the habits of real animals were used, which the actors had to copy using so-called motion capture technology.
- This is the fourth joint project between director Jon Favreau and composer John Debney. They previously worked together on the films "Elf" (2003), "Zathura: A Space Adventure" (2005), and "Iron Man 2" (2010).
- The wolf cubs in the film are named after the actors and other members of the film crew.
- Baloo whistles the song "The Bare Necessities" from the 1967 Disney cartoon.
- A remake of the 1967 cartoon as a live-action film with elements of computer animation. The authors have made some changes to it, including episodes from Rudyard Kipling's book in the plot to make the narrative more engaging.
- All locations used in the film were created using computer graphics.
- In the cartoon "The Jungle Book" (1967), King Louie is depicted as an orangutan. In the film, he will be a gigantopithecus. It is believed that these ancestors of orangutans inhabited some parts of India. The filmmakers preferred the gigantopithecus to make the film more fantastic and because orangutans do not live in India.
- This is the first joint work of Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray since the film *Lost in Translation* (2003).
- This is Christopher Walken's first participation in projects from *Walt Disney Pictures* since the film *The Wild Thornberrys Movie* (2002).
- Ben Kingsley, Scarlett Johansson, and Idris Elba have starred in films based on *Marvel* comics; Christopher Walken played in *Batman Returns* (1992) based on *DC* comics; Bill Murray participated in the filming of *Garfield* (2004) based on the newspaper comic strip.
- Giancarlo Esposito, who voices Akela, starred in an advertisement for the computer game *Destiny* (2014), where he read an excerpt from the poem *The Law of the Jungle* from Rudyard Kipling's *The Second Jungle Book*.
- This is the thirteenth film from *Walt Disney Pictures* for which John Debney composed the music.
- This was Bill Murray's first film for Walt Disney Pictures. Previously, he had only appeared in films released under the Touchstone Pictures label (a film division of Disney): 'What About Bob?' (1991), 'Ed Wood' (1994), 'Rushmore' (1998), 'Cradle Will Rock' (1999), 'The Royal Tenenbaums' (2001), and 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou' (2004). Additionally, Murray became the second actor from 'Ghostbusters' (1984) to play a bear. Dan Aykroyd did so before him in 2010, starring in 'Yogi Bear'.
- Neil Sethi, who played Mowgli, admitted that he had never filmed with real animals before, and director Jon Favreau sometimes stood in for him – in scenes with animals, and especially with Shere Khan.
- Motion capture technology was used to create the animal characters, and puppeteers from The Jim Henson Company portrayed them. In addition, it was specialists from The Jim Henson Company who created full-size animal replicas that played in scenes with Mowgli.
- The volume shown against the end credits is the same one featured at the beginning of the 1967 animated film of the same name. According to director Jon Favreau, this completes the on-screen story of Mowgli, which began in 1967.
- Over 2,000 children from around the world auditioned for the role of Mowgli. For Neel Sethi, these were his first film auditions ever. He was one of the last candidates John Favreau reviewed. Two weeks later, Sethi had already begun filming.
- The basis for depicting the animals in the film was largely real wild animals found in India. However, the filmmakers increased the animals' size by approximately 30% (to emphasize Mowgli's weakness and, in general, humanity's unsuitability for life in the jungle). Of course, this only heightened the sense of threat posed by Shere Khan and Kaa. On the other hand, it had exactly the same effect on viewers in terms of the feeling of friendliness associated with the wolf pack or Bagheera. In reality, wolves and leopards that inhabit India are relatively small (an individual is smaller than the average person). Even King Louie appears significantly larger than a real gigantopithecus (these extinct hominids were up to 3 meters tall, while Louie reaches about 4.5 meters).
- Approximately 1,000 locations in the jungles of India were photographed during pre-production and then used as references during post-production.
- In Disney's 1967 *The Jungle Book*, King Louie was an orangutan (incidentally, this character was not created by the author of the original Mowgli story, English traveler and writer Rudyard Kipling, but by Disney employees). In this film, Louie is a gigantopithecus, an extinct genus of hominids that inhabited the territories of modern-day India, China, Thailand, and Vietnam. The orangutan was changed to a gigantopithecus to make the whole story even more fantastic, and to show that orangutans are not native to India.
- Baloo is voiced by Bill Murray. In "The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story" (1998), the same character was voiced by his older brother, Brian Doyle-Murray.
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