Warner Bros. Delays ‘Jungle Book: Origins’, Bumps Up ‘Wonder Woman,’ Sets New DC Films Dates
By Jacob Hall/April 6, 2016 12:30 pm EST
And something is definitely going on behind the scenes. Warner Bros. has announced a slew of changes to their schedule, including new release dates for Wonder Woman, Jungle Book: Origins, and two untitled DC superhero movies.
Warner Bros. also announced that two untitled DC films will open on October 5, 2018, and November 1, 2019, but your guess is as good as ours when it comes to details. If I had to put money down, I’d wager on one of them being Ben Affleck’s solo Batman movie and the other being a sequel to Suicide Squad, which is currently undergoing major reshoots after the internet fell in love with the trailer.
Meanwhile, Jungle Book: Origins has been pushed from October 6, 2017 to October 19, 2018. This isn’t the first time this film has been pushed back an entire year. About a year and a half ago, director Andy Serkis’ motion capture adaption of Rudyard Kipling’s beloved stories was delayed from 2016 to 2017. Serkis himself commented this latest change:
What he doesn’t say is that Disney is releasing their own Jungle Book movie in a little over a week and it’s garnering incredible early reviews and that Warner Bros. possibly just wants to put a little more distance between these projects.
“I’ve got to say that personally I’m absolutely thrilled that Warner Brothers have changed the delivery date of our movie. The ambition for this project is huge. What we are attempting is an unprecedented level of psychological and emotional nuance in morphing the phenomenal performances of our cast into the facial expressions of our animals.”
