Andy Serkis's Jungle Book movie Mowgli is getting the Annihilation and Cloverfield Paradox treatment as it moves to Netflix.
The film had previously been set for a theatrical release, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix has now picked up the rights from Warner Bros.
Mowgli – another live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book – was previously meant to hit cinemas on October 19, but audiences will now have to wait until 2019 to stream it on Netflix.
Last year, Serkis told Digital Spy how his film would differ from the recent Disney version.
"[It's] an amazing cast, it's a much darker version of the tale – a very Mowgli-centric story, the tone is very close to the tone of Rudyard Kipling's original book," he said.
"We've got Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett and Benedict Cumberbatch all doing performance capture, they're incredible performances and, crucially, the boy playing Mowgli [Rohan Chand] is out of this world."
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Mowgli has had a turbulent time in production and been faced with various delays, but Serkis hasn't let that impact his vision for the film.
"The ambition for this project is huge. What we are attempting is an unprecedented level of psychological and emotional nuance in morphing the phenomenal performances of our cast into the facial expressions of our animals," he explained.
At least by moving to Netflix, Mowgli will avoid competition with Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book – which did insane numbers at the box office – but it'll be a shame not to see Serkis's motion capture passion project on the big screen.
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