Director Jon Favreau involved in negotiations with Disney for The Jungle Book’s film adaptation

The all-time-favourites of kids across the globe, Mowgli and his friends, are going to have a big screen adventure soon as Disney is planning a film adaptation of Rudyard Kipling`s India-based The Jungle Book with director Jon Favreau on the board.

The Jungle Book was first published in 1894 and was adapted by Justin Marks for Disney. Producers for the adaptation have not been finalised yet. The studio will face a tough competition from a rival project as Harry Potter script-writer Steve Kloves has been roped in by Warner Bros. The Jungle Book’s lead character is Mowgli who is a young human child nourished by wolves in a forest and his friends include a bear and a panther in the Indian jungles. Walt Disney created an animated version of the book and he died when the movie was undergoing production.