Freida Pinto Looks For The Bare Necessities In Andy Serkis’ Jungle Book: Origins

Jessica Lachenal

Published: May 12, 2015 01:22 pm

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Freida Pinto joins an already star-studded cast in the Andy Serkis-helmed Jungle Book: Origins.

Pinto’s role isn’t defined quite yet, but she’ll be in one of the live action roles opposite the animated cast. This cast includes Serkis himself as Baloo, Benedict Cumberbatch as Shere Khan (because of course), Christian Bale as Bagheera (“where’s Rache–I mean, Mowgli?”), and Cate Blanchett as Kaa (aka The Curious Case Of Oh My God That’s A Killer Python).

The motion capture-meets-live action film is aiming for an October 2016 release. With a description like that, thoughts of Avatar immediately spring to mind. No, not that Avatar. The “unobtainium, wait-isn’t-this-FernGully” Avatar. That one.

(via Deadline)

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Jessica Lachenal is a writer who doesn’t talk about herself a lot, so she isn’t quite sure how biographical info panels should work. But here we go anyway. She's the Weekend Editor for The Mary Sue, a Contributing Writer for The Bold Italic (thebolditalic.com), and a Staff Writer for Spinning Platters (spinningplatters.com). She's also been featured in Model View Culture and Frontiers LA magazine, and on Autostraddle. She hopes this has been as awkward for you as it has been for her.