Disney Announces ‘Jungle Book,’ ‘Maleficent’ Sequels

LOS ANGELES: Disney accepted it is planning sequels for box appointment smashes “The Jungle Book” and “Maleficent” and appear nine new live-action movies mostly aggressive by its activated aback catalogue.

The flat aswell accepted boundless rumors of a “Mary Poppins” aftereffect starring Emily Blunt, and “Cruella,” a aftereffect of “101 Dalmatians” with Emma Stone.

Angelina Jolie will reprise her role as Maleficent with Linda Woolverton already afresh demography on Software duties while
administrator Jon Favreau revisits the adventure of man-cub Mowgli for “Jungle Book 2,” the flat said in a statement.

Reese Wither spoon will yield a arch role in “Tinker Bell,” a accommodate of “Peter Pan,” Disney said, while Tim Burton will yield the captain for “Dumbo,” a avant-garde call of the 1941 Disney classic.

While belief about all the films has been abounding — some of which Disney has ahead accepted — Monday’s account represents the studio’s aboriginal official advertisement accompanied by a roll-out schedule.

The flat affairs to absolution live-action bogie tales in December 2017, April 2018 and December 2019, it said, after absolute which movies had been allocated to anniversary slot.

The aggregation will aswell absolution live-action movies in August and December 2018, it added.

Disney has raided its aback archive of bogie tales in contempo years for money-spinners such as “Alice in Wonderland, “Cinderella” and “Maleficent,” which fabricated a accumulated $2.5 billion.

Over the advancing months, “Alice Through the Looking Glass” and “Beauty and the Beast” are accepted to ample theaters, while “The Jungle Book” has taken in $192 actor domestically, beating the antagonism in the aboriginal two weeks back its release.

Disney aswell accepted “Jungle Cruise” — starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and based on a theme-park ride — a part of the account of projects, all of which will be accustomed dates over the advancing months.

Among the beneath acclaimed projects authoritative up the account is “A Wrinkle in Time,” a ailing accustomed 2003 TV adaption of a 1960s sci-fi novel, and “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms.”

Based on the 1816 bogie account “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” by E.T.A. Hoffmann, the adventure was the afflatus for Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker,” conceivably the world’s a lot of acclaimed ballet.

Disney’s advertisement fabricated no acknowledgment of Aladdin aftereffect “Genies,” “Mulan,” “Pinocchio,” “The Sword in the Stone” or “Winnie the Pooh,” all accounted to be accepting the live-action analysis forth with “Night on Bald Mountain,” reportedly a accommodate of “Fantasia.”