8 Upcoming Movies That Will Be Nothing Like You're Expecting

8. Jungle Book (2018)

The Expectation: A re-tread of the 2016 Disney movie and yet another version of the same old story.

Why That's Not The Case: Now that The Jungle Book is in the public domain, literally anyone is allowed to produce a film based on the property, which is why we're being treated to an Andy Serkis-directed version - from Warner Bros. - next year, which is completely separate from the Jon Favreau effort that Disney distributed last year.

On the surface, the Serkis version seems entirely pointless, given how great and popular Favreau's movie was. Do we need two versions of the same story?

Serkis and Warner Bros. also appear to have asked themselves that same question, because the movie that they're producing will be a lot, lot different from the movie produced by their competitor.

In an interview with Variety, Warner Bros. Pictures chief Toby Emmerich discussed the studio's Jungle Book movie, and how it compares to the Disney version:

"It is based on the same source material that the Disney movie is based on, but man, is it a different interpretation. If Rudyard Kipling saw this movie, he would more readily recognize it as an adaptation of his book.”

One big way that Serkis' version is distancing itself from Favreau's is that the former will include more human characters than the latter - Mowgli will obviously feature, but he'll be joined by John Lockwood, and Messua, a woman who adopts Mowgli.

The two will share some similarities, sure, but will be different enough to warrant each of them existing.