The Jungle Book one-shot "Marvel Illustrated: The Jungle Book" (2007). Bill Willingham's comic book series, "Fables", features "The Jungle Book"s Mowgli, Bagheera, and Shere Khan. Many films have been based on one or another of Kipling's stories, including "Elephant Boy" (1937), the (Mowgli) published as "Adventures of Mowgli" in the US, an animation released between 1967 and 1971, and combined into a single 96-minute feature film in 1973; Chuck Jones's made for-TV cartoons "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" (1975), "The White Seal" (1975), and "Mowgli's Brothers" (1976). Many films, too, have been made of the book as a whole, such as Zoltán Korda's 1942 film, Disney's 1967
The Jungle Book (2016 film) order for Favreau to instead focus mainly on "The Lion King". By January 12, 2018, Marks ended an early draft for the sequel, which he said will "go further through" Kipling's material, as well as feature elements of Bill Peet's rejected drafts for the 1967 film. The Jungle Book (2016 film) The Jungle Book is a 2016 American fantasy adventure film directed and produced by Jon Favreau, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and written by Justin Marks. Based on Rudyard Kipling's eponymous collective works and inspired by Walt Disney's 1967 animated film of the same name, "The Jungle Book" is