Frequent “Harry Potter” film scribe Steve Kloves is making a deal to write, direct and produce a new adaptation of the Rudyard Kipling classic “The Jungle Book” at Warner Bros. Pictures reports Deadline.
The project will be a live action version of the story about an orphaned boy raised by wolves and other animals, which try to protect him from the ferocious tiger Shere-Khan.
Previous adaptations of the work include the 1967 animated classic and Stephen Sommers’ 1994 live-action version starring Jason Scott Lee and Lena Headey.
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