Serkis, for whom the film was supposed to be his big directorial debut, directed and released an entire other feature in the time he worked on “Mowgli.” Chand, who was 10 at his casting, is now 14. 7, has been a struggle that included extensive delays, surprise competition, talks with multiple directors, ownership changes and a distribution plan that was still in flux less than a month ago.īy the time this latest version of the beloved Rudyard Kipling story hit screens, it was nearly seven years in the making. Nearly everything else about finishing the film, which debuted Thursday in select theaters and goes to Netflix on Dec. “He was the third person who read for the role. “I would love to say we searched through thousands of people to find him, but that’s not the case,” the film’s director, Andy Serkis, said in a phone interview. But casting Rohan Chand might have been the easiest part of completing Netflix’s new “Jungle Book” adaptation, “ Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle.”
Finding a preteen lead who can carry a big-budget, effects-heavy movie doesn’t sound like a simple feat.
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