that Jon Favreau remake was way better than it had any business being, in my opinion.

that said, the Disney film the Favreau is revising -- when we divorce nostalgia from the picture -- was NOT a good movie. It had a few good songs, but it's not a good film. The Favreau remake is a good movie.

And the quality of that film and its recent-ness makes this feel utterly unnecessary, even if it'll likely be more directly faithful in tone and story to the original Kipling tales.