Er staat een ‘live-action’ film van Rudyard Kiplings The Jungle Book in de planning. John Downer, bekend van natuurhistorische films voor de BBC, zal de film regisseren.

“My ambition is to use pioneering digital and wildlife filming techniques to portray one of the greatest stories of all time just as the author intended -- with real live talking animals inhabiting the jungle world of Kipling's India ”, aldus Downer.