Disney and Warner Bros. announced their live action adaptation of Jungle Book almost at same time but Disney won the race, because of two reasons:
Disney was only converting their animation movie into live action. The script, treatment, shots etc. are almost mirror copy of the original Disney's Jungle Book (1967). Jon Farveou is a seasoned director who is known for swift production. He had a template to work on from beginning.
Warner Bros. Jungle Book Origins, unlike Disney's version, will be closely following the source material. Rudyard Kipling was a sympathesizer to third world in an imperial age and Jungle Book drew lot of parallels to situation of India during British Raj. The book has many shades and a dancing Baloo and satirical vultures are none of it. Hence WB, is taking its time to give audience an honest to book version of Jungle Book.
"The first trailer for Warner Bros Pictures’ Mowgli was released May 21 2018. Based on the famous Rudyard Kipling story, The Jungle Book, Mowgli mixes real actors with computer-generated animals to tell the fantasy-adventure tale of a boy raised by wolves in the jungles of India. If that sounds familiar, it’s probably because Disney made that exact movie, based on the same source material, in 2016, when it was called The Jungle Book (the same as Kipling’s story). That one was directed by Jon Favreau and featured the voices of Bill Murray, Scarlett Johannsson, and Idris Elba. It grossed nearly $1 billion at the global box office."
In the case of Mowgli, the film was in development before Disney’s The Jungle Book was even announced. But the Disney film was able to get made first, making Mowgli look like the duplicate. Having to essentially re-tell a story told just two years ago by Disney, however tonally different, will make it very difficult for Serkis’ film to perform as well at the box office as Favreau’s did.
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