Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle |
| Original title | Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andy Serkis |
| script | Callie Kloves |
| production |
Jonathan Cavendish , Steve Kloves , Andy Serkis |
| music | Nitin Sawhney |
| camera | Michael Seresin |
| cut |
Alex Márquez , Jeremiah O'Driscoll , Mark Sanger |
| occupation | |
Mowgli: Legend of the jungle (original title: Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle ) is a film by Andy Serkis , based on the book The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling based and on 7 December 2018 the streaming provider Netflix has been released. The screenplay is by Calie Kloves , and the child actor Rohan Chand plays the leading role of Mowgli .
A US theatrical release was originally planned for October 19, 2018, but in July 2018 it was announced that Netflix had secured the exploitation rights for the film and would offer the film exclusively in streaming. The film will be shown in selected cinemas in Los Angeles , New York , San Francisco and London from November 29, 2018. After the international launch on Netflix, further cinema screenings are to follow in the USA and Great Britain.
action
The human boy Mowgli grows up in a pack of wolves under the leadership of Akela in the jungles of India. He is orphaned after his human parents were killed by the tiger Shir Khan when Mowgli was an infant. The often harsh rules of the jungle teach him the bear Balu and the panther Baghira . Mowgli is also accepted as one of them by most of the other animals in the jungle. Only a few young wolves from the pack reject it and call him a freak or miscarriage , which connects it to the small albino wolf Bhoot.
Mowgli is a thorn in the side of the tiger Shir Khan, he wants to kill the boy. But Mowgli still enjoys the pack's protection. However, when he fails the jungle test, which should give him the right to participate in the night hunt, and he violates some iron jungle laws, such as using fire to defend Akela when he is challenged in his leadership role, Mowgli has to leave the jungle.
He comes to a human village and slowly gets used to the life there, although he doesn't understand the language. When one of his wolf brothers asks him to return to the jungle because the pack is suffering from Shir Khan's terror, Mowgli refuses, because he now belongs to the people and his animal brothers have rejected him.
There is also an English hunter in the village who was employed by the residents to protect them from the tiger. When the spring festival is celebrated in the village , he shows Mowgli his hunting trophies. Among these is the stuffed albino bhoot. The sight tears Mowgli's heart apart and he realizes that he doesn't belong to the people, but to the jungle. In a final battle, he defeats Shir Khan, with Akela and the elephants helping him after his leader had promised to deliver the hunter who had cut off his tusk. Akela, however, lets his life fight the tiger and Mowgli becomes the leader of the pack.
production
development
Directed by Andy Serkis , who made his debut in this capacity with the film As long as I breathe last year. He himself took on the role of the bear Balu, which he put on as in the original book as a "drill instructor / drill sergeant" - a strict US military instructor.
publication
A first trailer was released in May 2018. At a conference at CineEurope in Barcelona, Warner Bros. gave a foretaste in June 2018, and Serkis presented footage from the film there.
After the film was originally scheduled to hit theaters on October 6, 2017, Warner Bros. postponed its theatrical release in April 2016 by one year to October 19, 2018. At the same time the official title was Jungle Book announced, so he was hardly distinguishable from Jon Favreau's film adaptation The Jungle Book from the year 2016. In May 2018, the first trailer with the new title was Mowgli ( Mowgli ) published. The film should come to German cinemas on October 25, 2018. The streaming provider Netflix secured in July 2018, the exploitation rights and added the subtitles Legend of the jungle ( Legend of the Jungle ) is added, which was not included in the first trailer. With the switch to Netflix, the German theatrical release was canceled. The international release on Netflix took place on December 7, 2018. The world premiere took place on November 25, 2018 in Mumbai.
reception
After the publication of the first trailer in May 2018, the dpa wrote : “ Mowgli is much darker than the Disney cartoon from 1967 and than the latest ' The Jungle Book ' (2016) by director Jon Favreau , who wrote the story based on Kipling's original, however, had already staged a little darker. "
Cast and dubbing
| role | Actor / original speaker | Dubbing voices |
|---|---|---|
| Mogli (Mowgli) | Rohan Chand | Max Asmus |
| Shir Khan (Shere Khan) | Benedict Cumberbatch | Lutz Riedel |
| Baghira (Bagheera) | Christian Bale | David Nathan |
| Kaa | Cate Blanchett | Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif |
| Vihaan | Eddie Marsan | Lutz Schnell |
| Nisha | Naomie Harris | Irina von Bentheim |
| Balu (Baloo) | Andy Serkis | Tilo Schmitz |
| Tabaqui | Tom Hollander | Bernd Vollbrecht |
| Messua | Freida Pinto | |
| John Lockwood | Matthew Rhys | Frank Schaff |
| Brother wolf | Jack Reynor | |
| Akela | Peter Mullan | Axel Lutter |
| Bhoot | Louis Ashbourne Serkis | Nils Matti Diederich |
Web links
- Mowgli: Legend of the jungle in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle on Netflix
- Mowgli: Legend of the jungle in the German dubbing index
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patrick Frater: Andy Serkis' 'Mowgli' Gets Theatrical Release Ahead of Netflix Debut. In: Variety. November 7, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Behind the Scenes with Andy Serkis. In: YouTube .com. May 21, 2018. Retrieved May 22, 2018.
- ↑ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-2018-mowgli-trailer-reveals-grittiest-1526929999-htmlstory.html
- Jump up ↑ Leo Barraclough: Bradley Cooper, Andy Serkis Show Footage From 'A Star Is Born', 'Mowgli'. In: Variety, June 11, 2018.
- ↑ Martin Gerhard: Warner Bros. postpones the cinema releases of Wonder Woman and Jungle Book: Origins In: moviepilot.de, April 7, 2016.
- ↑ Jungle Book: Origins by Andy Serkis is now also called Jungle Book In: Robots & Dragons, April 15, 2016.
- ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved December 14, 2017.
- ↑ Kareena Kapoor, Anil Kapoor meet Batman Christian Bale at Mowgli world premiere in Mumbai. In: hindustantimes.com, November 26, 2018.
- ↑ DPA-Starline: Film: Andy Serkis shows dark scenes in the first “Mowgli” trailer. In: Focus Online . May 22, 2018, accessed October 14, 2018 .