To celebrate the release of The Jungle Book today, I am honored to have the opportunity to give away one blu-ray dvd of the movie to one of my lucky readers. I want to thank Thinkjam and Disney Home Entertainment for allowing me to do this.
About The Movie:
Directed by Jon Favreau (“Iron Man,” “Iron Man 2,” “Chef”) and produced by Favreau and Brigham Taylor (executive producer of “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” “Tomorrowland”), “The Jungle Book” is a live-action epic adventure based on Rudyard Kipling’s timeless stories, inspired by Disney’s classic 1967 animated film and centered on Mowgli (Neel Sethi), a man-cub who’s been raised by a family of wolves. But Mowgli finds he is no longer welcome in the jungle when fearsome tiger Shere Khan (voice of Idris Elba), who bears the scars of Man, promises to eliminate what he sees as a threat.
The film’s musical score, composed by Emmy® winner and Oscar-, BAFTA- and Annie Award-nominee John Debney (“Elf,” “Iron Man 2”), features a classic orchestral sound accented by ethnic instruments and pays homage to the original film by highlighting snippets of the classic songs we all know and love.
Venture behind the scenes with in-depth bonus features that reveal the innovative filmmaking technology used to create the richly immersive jungle world and characters; Follow the journey of the film’s only on-screen actor, charismatic newcomer Neel Sethi (Mowgli); Delve into a candid and humorous scene-by-scene audio commentary with director Jon Favreau and meet the all-star voice cast who help bring the film’s colorful characters to life, as well as the musicians who accent the adventure with a majestic music score.
The all-star cast includes Bill Murray (“Lost in Translation”) as the voice of Baloo, Sir Ben Kingsley (“Learning to Drive,” “The Walk”) as Bagheera and Lupita Nyong’o (“12 Years a Slave,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”) as the voice of mother wolf Raksha. Scarlett Johansson (“Avengers: Age of Ultron”) gives life to Kaa, Giancarlo Esposito (“Breaking Bad”) provides the voice of alpha-male wolf Akela, Idris Elba (“Beast of No Nation”) roars as the voice of Shere Khan, and Christopher Walken (“The Deer Hunter”) lends his iconic voice to King Louie.
As a little kid, I mainly checked out the illustrations in the book at first, and read the book a few years later. I haven’t saw the new movie, yet. But I’m looking forward to checking it out soon! It looks like it’s going to be great!
I remember reading the book many years ago, and seeing the old animated movie as a kid, but I haven’t seen the new one yet. The trailers look amazing & my nephews really want to see it! I’d love to watch it with them.
I’ve only seen the animated version. My favorite part of it was the songs.
Don’t you just want to jump in and be a part of the action? And I can’t stop tapping my feet to the beat 🙂
I have seen the animated film and can’t wait to see this one! I love the songs from the animate film!
I haven’t seen this version, but I loved the animated version as a kid.
I saw this movie and LOVED it!! I’m not a huge fan of animated version actually, so I had reservations but wow… it was amazing and I would love to own it 🙂 One of my favorite parts was Mowgli saving the baby elephant, showing that differences can be ok.
I haven’t seen the movie yet or read the book.
I haven’t seen the newest movie yet, but I love the soundtrack! I love the King Louie scene! Thank you for the giveaway! 🙂
I haven’t seen this version but I remember the animated one as a favorite from my childhood.
I haven’t read the book or seen the movie yet! It looks really good though.
Ive see the movie and my favorite part is when King Louie sings. Thanks for the giveaway. I hope that I win.