10 Movie Remakes With Better Endings Than The Original

Jon Favreau's The Jungle Book is far from a 1:1 remake of Disney's 1967 animated classic, and honestly all the better for it, proving the only live-action Disney remake to date which is persuasively better than the original.

This is also true of its ending, which sees Mowgli (Neel Sethi) staying in the jungle with Baloo (Bill Murray) and Bagheera (Ben Kingsley).

In the animated version, Mowgli is instead lured away to the nearby human village by a beautiful young girl, which seems like a massive cop-out given the friendship which has blossomed between Mowgli and Baloo throughout the film.

Furthermore, it seems to send the message of "stay in your lane" and "stick to your own kind," which to modern audiences in particular is a rather unpleasant sentiment.

Favreau stated in interviews that he changed the ending both to leave the door open for sequels and because of his own personal dissatisfaction with the original:

"I think the idea that Mowgli rejects the jungle is not the theme that I wanted – I wanted to show that you can be a human being and still be a part of the circle or life; you could either be destructive towards nature or you could be a steward of nature...

I think that if we could learn to live in harmony with nature there's probably a good lesson for now, and if we don't, it's going to be a sad place because things are going to look a lot different in the next 100 years. And also ultimately I didn't like the old ending when I was younger. It was a bummer to me. He left his friends because he was hypnotised by the song of this young girl?"