New "Jungle Book" Featurette and New Character Posters Released

We have had a lot of "Jungle Book" news this week with the photoshoot and the amazing first clip that was released. Today, we got another look at the film with a new feature looking behind the scenes look with interviews with the cast as well as director Jon Favreau. We also see shots from the film Mowgli (Neel Sethi) in awe of the jungle and shots the compare the film and the animated classic. Also interviewed was Bill Murray, Idris Elba, and Sir Ben Kingsley.


The original "Jungle Book" was the last film the Walt Disney worked on and as Disney Insider Drew Taylor said, "it's hard not to think he would of loved this version, especially since it features cutting edge technology and world class story-telling, two pinnacles of Walt's output."

Disney also released seven new character posters including of Baloo, Mowgli, Kaa, Shere Khan, Bagheera, King Louie, and Raksha. Here are the new posters:

Disney's "The Jungle Book" is due to be released April 15, 2016.