{"id":128031,"date":"2015-09-15T16:51:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T22:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/15\/the-liveish-action-jungle-book-has-a-teaser-trailer.html"},"modified":"2015-09-18T10:36:58","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T16:36:58","slug":"the-liveish-action-jungle-book-has-a-teaser-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/15\/the-liveish-action-jungle-book-has-a-teaser-trailer.html","title":{"rendered":"The live(ish) action &quot;Jungle Book&quot; has a teaser-trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And here it is.<\/p>\n<p>1. They certainly have some damned good voice talent for it.<\/p>\n<p>2. The CG animal stuff &#8230; remains to be seen. There&#39;s a fine line (or uncanny valley) between believable animals and the talking characters Kipling (and, later, Disney) described. Some of that didn&#39;t seem to quite gel yet. But, then, I&#39;m not sure I&#39;ve seen something like this before. <\/p>\n<p>3. In case you&#39;re wondering the extent to which this will harken back to the animated version &#8230; there are some lines and just a <i>bit<\/i> of music that answer that question.<\/p>\n<p>4. That said, the teaser-trailer is awfully dark and suspenseful. It will be interesting to see what sort of humor they allow to creep in.<\/p>\n<p>For the moment &#8212; this is on the to-watch list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><iframe type='text\/html' width='100%' height='385' src='https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HcgJRQWxKnw' frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/T8hhe5mPnRP'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And here it is. 1. They certainly have some damned good voice talent for it. 2. The CG animal stuff &#8230; remains to be seen. There&#39;s a fine line (or uncanny valley) between believable animals and the talking characters Kipling (and, later, Disney) described. Some of that didn&#39;t seem to quite gel yet. But, then, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/15\/the-liveish-action-jungle-book-has-a-teaser-trailer.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The live(ish) action &quot;Jungle Book&quot; has a teaser-trailer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,263,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-disney","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46048,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/23\/the-avengers-2-teaser-trailer-officially-goes-live.html","url_meta":{"origin":128031,"position":0},"title":"The &quot;Avengers 2&quot; teaser trailer officially goes live","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Oct-14 9:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, so plenty of Avengers goodness here, full of blood, toil, tears, and sweat. Bruce Banner is definitely getting more coverage, but we get some quick shots of the whole gang. Also some brief glimpses of Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. And, of course, Ultron.Tonally, they seem to be doing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":48564,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/28\/star-wars-vii-teaser-trailer-so-it-begins.html","url_meta":{"origin":128031,"position":1},"title":"Star Wars VII Teaser Trailer: So It Begins","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Nov-14 12:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, this looks pretty darned good. The Stupidest Light Saber Ever is more than made up for with some very sweet Millennium Falcon action.(h\/t +Les Jenkins) View on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133859,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/15\/the-disney-a-wrinkle-in-time-teaser-trailer.html","url_meta":{"origin":128031,"position":2},"title":"The Disney &quot;A Wrinkle in Time&quot; Teaser Trailer","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 15-Jul-17 3:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Hmmm.There's a lot I love here. But there's a lot that seems like Big Picture Event Flashy Incredibly Cool Padding.That said, the final cul-de-sac scene is my favorite from the book, and it's perfect. I am tentatively thinking I'm going to see this in the theaters. 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