Disney has finally given us a first look at the highly anticipated live-action adaptation of "The Jungle Book."
While the teaser may be super short, as in short enough to be a Vine, we still get a glimpse of what's in store for the movie. The beautiful jungle is the main focus of this clip and at the end, you quickly see a shadow of the main character Mowgli standing on a tree branch in the middle of the jungle.
Shortly after the clip was released on Disney's social media, the Mouse House announced that the first official trailer would debut on Access Hollywood on Monday, according to Entertainment Weekly. "Your firsssst look is coming Monday on Access Hollywood Live," they tweeted, as if to speak in the sinister snake Kaa's voice.
Newcomer Neel Sethi plays Mowgli in this childhood favorite, according to E! News. If you've never seen the original and iconic cartoon, the movie is about a young boy who is raised by wolves and able to communicate with animals. The live-adaptation of the movie is bound to be an interesting one as several major actors play the CGI-animated characters. In the film, we'll see Scarlett Johansson as a python, Idris Elba as a tiger, Bill Murray as a bear, Lupita Nyong'o as Mowgli's wolf mother, Ben Kingsley as a panther and Christopher Walken as an orangutan.
"It is going to be a very different experience in that it's much more visceral," Kingsley told E! News last month at Disney's D23 convention. "You feel the threat of the jungle, as well as the beauty of the jungle. You feel the power of those beasts as well as the story that they have to tell. You feel that there is something very muscular and vivid about those animals."
President of Production at Walt Disney Studios Sean Bailey realizes how big of a deal this adaption is. "We strive to both honor what's come before while saying something new," he said at D23. "And with this title, the bar is very, very high."
"The Jungle Book" will hit theaters April 15, 2016.
Your firsssst look is coming Monday on @ahlive. #JungleBook
