Replicants, superheros, and reboots await you in our Fall Movie Guide. Plan your season and take note of the hotly anticipated indie, foreign, and documentary. Warner Bros. Pictures chief Toby Emmerich says Andy Serkis Jungle Book movie will be more faithful to Rudyard Kiplings original novel. The Jungle Book is an allnew liveaction epic adventure. How To Watch The Jungle Book Movie' title='How To Watch The Jungle Book Movie' />The Jungle Book Is Jam Packed With Easter Eggs for Disney Fans. Jon Favreau is an unapologetic Disney devotee. He knows the old movies backwards and forwards. His Apple Watch face is, unsurprisingly, Mickey Mouse. His fandom helped earn him the gig of directing The Jungle Book and the eye popping photo real film is suffused with treats for both aficionados of Uncle Walts classic oeuvre and film buffs in general. From visual cues and callbacks to the original 1. Favreaus film will reward the observant. These are all little director games we play to keep ourselves occupied, he said during a recent chat with Yahoo Movies. I wanted to make sure the core group of fans of the underlying material were respected and rewarded. You want to make it fun for someone who has never seen the original film but for someone who loves the original film, we want them to understand that we love it, too. Here are the coolest things we spotted along with a little directors commentary from Jon Favreau. Favreau gets his fanboy on right away, kicking things off by setting the opening shot of Disneys iconic castle in the jungle. But the geeking out goes deeper. Movie Dvd Puppy!. We wanted the beginning of the movie to be low tech and feel of the moment in the history of Disney of the 1. Disney lets you change the logo, so we designed a logo thats actually cel painted, hand painted. And film composer John Debney reorchestrated the opening Disney theme over the logo using the orchestration that they would have used then, with harp and chimes, a much smaller orchestra, a very different orchestra from whats being used now. So we go from a cel painted castle, with hand painted fireworks and flames on the torches. And we pull back into something that eventually becomes photo real, a shot thats similar to the shot in Bambi. Dozens of key scenes throughout the new Jungle Book purposely echo the 1. And Mowgli and Baloo the sloth bear Bill Murray floating down the river while humming The Bare Necessities. To me the iconic image from the original is Mowgli floating on the belly of the bear, says Favreau. And that was a challenge because the physics of it is not easy to do realistically. So we studied a lot of polar bears to get the proper reference. To me it was like, We got to have it. These were iconic characters to me and iconic moments. And it was vitally important to me to honor the images that stand out the most, but not do a carbon copy of the original. But there are other Disney influences. Aside from the Bambi nod at the beginning, Favreau included homages to some of his other favorite Disney films. Theres a scene with the elephants based on Dumbo. And the scene where King Louie encounters Mowgli in the temple is inspired by Pinocchio, where the puppet gets pursued by the giant whale, Monstro. Monstro the whale in Pinocchio Image DisneyThe seminal songs are there, with some minor alterations. Favreau knew The Jungle Book couldnt be a full on musical, but he wanted to find a way to include the all time best known songs from the original. So Baloo and Mowgli still sing a few bars of The Bare Necessities and Christopher Walken does I Wanna Be Like You The Monkey Song. Listen to Bill Murray and Kermit Ruffins perform The Bare Necessities But careful listeners might notice that the lyrics for the latter tune, written by the legendary Disney songwriting team of Richard Sherman and his late brother, Robert, have been changed. Related Watch Bill Murray and Neel Sethi Sing The Bare NecessitiesAnd that prompts a priceless anecdote from Favreau When I was describing to Richard Sherman that we would need new lyrics because we re conceived the King Louie set piece, I said, Its not an orangutan anymore, its a Gigantopithecus. And as soon as I said that word, he said, Stop right there. Say that again. Gigantopithecus Get me a pen It was like something out of an old movie. Remember, he wrote Supercalifragilisticexpialodocious Really, he did I did not know that, says an incredulous Sethi. I say, You think you can rhyme that And he says, I think I can. And he rhymes it twice in one lyric You might think its ridiculous, that me, a Gigantopithecus, would ever dream Id like to team with the likes of you, man cub Oh how magnificus it would be, a Gigantopithecus like me could learn to do like you human do oo oo. Listen to Christopher Walken perform I Wanna Be Like You While Scarlett Johanssons Kaa doesnt sing in the film itself she does hiss, Trust in me at one point, her rendition of Trust in Me plays during the end credits, along with a full version of Walkens I Wanna Be Like You, and Dr. Johns take on The Bare Necessities. To celebrate New Orleans jazzman Louis Prima, who played King Louie in the first Jungle Book, Favreau took Walken and Murray to the Big Easy to record their numbers with Dr. John and trumpeter Kermit Ruffins. Listen to Scarlett Johansson perform Trust in Me Although the elephants and vultures dont get their own numbers as in the 6. Theres even a nod to the vultures easily the one part of the original Disney film that has aged the worst, with its incongruous Beatles impersonatorsbarbershop quartet with a couple quick shots of the birds scattered throughout. Speaking of the musicThe credits note the film was recorded in Fantasound, a sound process Walt Disneys team specifically developed with RCA for Fantasia but abandoned shortly thereafter because exhibitors didnt want to invest in the technology. Walt had a vision to put the audience in the middle of the music I said, Wouldnt it be cool to explore what Fantasound would be now explains Favreau. His sound engineers realized that the surround sound used by Dolby Atmos was similar. So if you see Jungle Book in an Atmos powered cinema, You will feel there are instruments moving around the theater. Related The Alternate Ending of the Original Jungle Book and What It Could Mean for the New Version. Vintage Fantasound ad via Animation. ProclamationsTumblrThis isnt the first time Favreau directed Giancarlo Esposito in The Jungle Book. Favreau happened to cast the honey piped veteran actor for a commercial for the video game Destiny. In the spot, Esposito reads The Law of the Jungle, a poem from Kiplings stories recited by Akela to the wolves. Watch Esposito read The Law of the Jungle in Favreaus Destiny commercial During the commercial shoot, Esposito and Favreau got to talking about their mutual affinity for Kiplings stories. Esposito recounts their conversation Jon said, Wouldnt it be wonderful to do this again And then a year later I get a phone call, and he says, Will you be a part of this And thats how Esposito wound up playing Akela in the film. Rocky the Rhino gets his moment. One of the notable characters developed for the 1. Rocky the Rhino. His design had been approved and artists had storyboarded the climactic scene with him in it. Jungle Book character sketches, including Rocky Image DisneyUltimately the filmmakers decided that having four vultures and a rhino was just too much and poor Rocky hit the cutting room floor. But Favreau has restored the character for the film, giving him a bit of screen time and the voice of comedian Russell Peters. Watch the originally conceived scene from The Jungle Book DVD Garry Shandlings bittersweet finale. The porcupine Ikki a character in the Kipling stories but not in the Disney cartoon is voiced by Garry Shandling in what turned out to be the comedians final role. Favreau was a big fan, and friend, having lured Shandling out of an acting hiatus for a role in Iron Man 2. If you stay through the credits, youll see that Favreau dedicated the film to Shandlings memory. Related Jon Favreaus Touching Tribute to Garry Shandling in The Jungle BookThats the same Jungle Book book. The Jungle Book 2. Disney Movies. Blu ray 3. D Blu ray DVD Digital HDSpecial Features. Lenticular PackagingThe Bare Necessities From The Jungle To The Bayou. The Return Of A Legend. The Jungle Effect. Developing Kaa. The Jungle Book Around The World. The Jungle Book Reimagined. I Am Mowgli. King Louies Temple Layer By Layer. Audio Commentary.