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Lasseter has his hand in everything.
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They also sought advice from both Walt Disney Animation and Pixar, and John Lasseter, chief creative officer at Disney and Pixar, had an idea that took the new "Jungle Book" back to the 1967 animated version, which had opened on a short live action segment with a book opening up onscreen.
“John sort of conceptualized and was insistent that we find -- we actually tracked down the original prop that was the physical book that was shot in 1967,” Taylor said. “And so we went to our friends at the Animation Archives and they found it. Ironically if you open it, for whatever reason that has maybe been lost to the sands of time, but you opened it and the cover page was actually ‘Robin Hood,’ as we know was produced in 1973, so they somehow mixed and matched, (but) we were able to use that original hardcover, and we were able to, rather than opening, we were able to close that book and be a true sort of bookend to what we feel like was a spiritual beginning of this in 1967.”
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Favreau says he collaborated with the Pixar and Disney Animation arms of the company on this film and he relished their “creative enthusiasm and an openness of idea sharing”. He showed early versions of the film to Pixar’s famed “Braintrust” of senior creatives and he drew on Pixar’s storytelling creative process by building his own story department.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/re ... 9098be6387Pixar also helped with a sequence that plays over the end credits.
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One of the things I noticed when sitting through the credits, was that there was a special thanks to Mark Andrews, the talented Pixar artist who co-directed Brave and co-wrote John Carter. When I asked Favreau what this was about, he gave a surprising answer: Pixar helped out in a really fun sequence that plays over the closing credits, where the Jungle Book book gets reopened and all sorts of animals come spilling out. “So the end sequence, when the book opens up, Pixar pitched ideas of what to have at our end credit title sequence,” Favreau said, adding that Pixar’s storied Brain Trust also assisted in the story for The Jungle Book. “So they were very, very helpful—Pixar could not have been more collaborative, and I’m a huge fan. It’s as close as I’ll ever come to working on a Pixar movie because it’s such an enclosed ecosystem. I don’t know if I’ll ever get to actually make a full movie with them, but to collaborate with them on this was a huge treat and a dream come true.” So yes, stay through the credits and you’ll get a Pixar-assisted treat! Also interesting to keep in mind that this is the second live-action Disney film that Pixar has helped with. Last summer they created a retro animated prologue that ran in front of select screenings of Brad Bird’s Tomorrowland.
Source: https://ohmy.disney.com/insider/2016/04/15/the-jungle-book-according-to-jon-favreau/
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