'The Jungle Book' trivia and fun facts

Richard M. Sherman, the lyricist who wrote some of the songs from the Disney adaptation of 'The Jungle Book', has been commissioned to write new songs for this film.

Bill Murray's debut Disney movie.

Bill Murray voices Baloo like his older brother Brian Doyle-Murray did in 'The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story'.

All the locations of the film are computer generated.

Neel Sethi, the young actor who plays Mowgli, was not born in India, he was born in the city of New York, in the United States. His family is from this Asian country.

Frank Cuesta is the voice of one scaly anteater.

The original release date was set to be in October 2015, but was switched with another film to be released in 2016.

This is the first time a woman voices the snake Kaa, the character voiced by Scarlett Johansson.

Although the film is an adaptation of the 1967 'The Jungle Book', the team decided to include elements of the Rudyard Kipling novel in order to make the story more adventurous and dangerous.

The wolf cubs in the film are named after motion capture actors and other crew members.

The talking animals in this film were created using animal behavior, then having the actors copy those movements in motion-capture VFX.

Baloo whistles "The Bare Necessities", a song from El libro de la selva (1967).