Bill Murray to play Baloo in 'The Jungle Book'Hollywood News

August 02, 2014 12:39
Bill Murray to play Baloo in 'The Jungle Book'},{Bill Murray to play Baloo in 'The Jungle Book'

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Actor Bill Murray has joined the cast of Disney's 'The Jungle Book'. The actor will lend his voice to the bear Baloo in the upcoming film based on the Rudyard Kipling novel.

Actors Christopher Walken, Lupita Nyong’o, Ben Kingsley and Idris Elba are already part of the voicecast in the upcoming live-action/animation movie.

Christopher Walken has been cast as King Louie and Giancarlo Esposito will voice Akela, the leader of a wolf pack. Ben Kingsley has been voicecast for the black panther Bagheera, while Lupita Nyong’o will give voice to the mother wolf Raksha. Scarlett Johansson has been cast as the python Kaa and Idris Elba will give voice to the tiger Shere Khan.

Neel Sethi, 10 years, will play the role of Mowgli, the jungle boy around whom the story is centered on.

Jon Favreau is helming the project from a script written by Justin Marks.

Disney's 'The Jungle Book' will release on October 9, 2015.

(AW: Pratima Tigga)

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