“Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book” is a misnomer. These new adventures of Mowgli might better be titled “Indian Jungle boy and the Temple of Doom.” In the final tale of “The Second Jungle Book,” the ...

`Phew,” says Major Boone after tasting the liquid dripping from a dank corridor in a ruined Indian city. Major Boone has kidnapped the lovely heroine Kitty, and a second after he touches a match to ...

What’s the coolest death in “Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Jungle Book’ “? Hmm, this is a hard choice. Is it . . . the coward who gets chewed to death by the tiger? Or is it . . . the guy who gets sucked down ...

EXCLUSIVE: Disney is in negotiations with Jon Favreau to helm The Jungle Book, a new adaptation of the 1894 Rudyard Kipling novel that is a priority project for the studio. Justin Marks, scripter of ...

Genre aficionados are fond of finding literary antecedents in unlikely places, and science fiction devotees' latest rediscovery is the Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). Hugo and Nebula ...

When Walt Disney was preparing his final film, he reportedly handed one of his four story men, Larry Clemmons, a copy of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book” and told him: “The first thing I want you ...

Rudyard Kipling admits in a recently-discovered letter that he may have helped himself "promiscuously" to others' work in creating the short story collection "The Jungle Book." Kipling wrote the ...