Sir Ben Kingsley, the closest thing humanity has to an actual panther, will voice Bagheera in Jon Favreau’s upcoming live-action adaption of Jungle Book for Disney. For those of you watching this movie’s development, that means Kingsley’s joining Idris Elba, who will be voicing Shere Khan the tiger; Scarlett Johansson, who will voice Kaa the python and Lupita Nyong’o, who will voice Rachka the wolf. On paper, this thing looks like a slam dunk. But in practice, Disney’s recent history of bungling promising setups means we’ll just have to wait and see …
