by lhb412 » Mon Nov 26, 2018 12:31 pm
Right now the blacker cast for a story with an African setting (which, if you think about it, was established in the Broadway show) is the only novel thing novel going for this movie. The Jungle Book had elements of Disney's previous version, but was otherwise a new, different adaptation of the story. If the film hews as close to it's predecessor as Beauty and the Beast did I just don't think it justifies itself.