![]() But The Jungle Book goes back to Disney's original version of it in 1967, and then even further back, to when Rudyard Kipling first wrote the story in 1894 (yeah, that's right, The Jungle Book is over a century old). The sweet innocence of Kipling's fables about a boy who learns to live among the animals is replaced here by an 'Indiana Jones' clone, an action thriller that Kipling would have viewed with astonishment. It would be more honest to say the characters have 'names from the Kipling stories,' since that is the only connection. So, sure, the King Louie scene wasn't filmed in a real temple. The credits say it is 'based on characters' from the Kipling stories. "If the kid was walking 12 feet, we built 12 feet of jungle," director Jon Favreau told Variety. A few of the settings in Neel Sethi's scenes, as he played Mowgli, were built, but mostly, the magic was in the green screen. Sadly - and impressively - the entire shooting of The Jungle Book took place in a Los Angeles film studio, and most of the surroundings were digitally rendered. What about the places in it, though? Is the Jungle Book monkey temple real, or at least based on a similar temple? If it is, can you visit it? The 3D production has a look and feel that's incredibly lifelike - although the talking animals should give viewers a clue that the movie is pretty CGI-heavy. Disney's newest version of The Jungle Book has been leaving audiences across the country pretty spell-bound.
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