The Jungle Book 2016 Script -

By balancing Kipling’s darkness with Disney’s heart, Justin Marks delivered a screenplay that proved remakes don’t have to be copies. They can be with the past. The final image—Mowgli running with Baloo and Bagheera, not as a wolf, but as a boy who chose the jungle—is the perfect closing beat of a script that understood the assignment. Final Grade for the Script: A- Strengths: Pacing, thematic depth, villain writing. Weakness: The vultures were missed; the third act fire sequence is slightly chaotic on the page. Further Reading: Compare the 2016 script to the 1994 live-action Jungle Book (which had no talking animals) to see how Favreau chose fantasy over realism.

When Disney announced a live-action/CGI remake of its 1967 animated classic The Jungle Book , many expected a simple shot-for-shot recreation. Instead, director Jon Favreau and screenwriter Justin Marks delivered something unexpected: a script that is darker, more psychological, and structurally closer to Rudyard Kipling’s original novels than the cartoon, while still retaining the musical soul of the Disney version. The Jungle Book 2016 Script