Bill Murray to sing as Baloo the Bear in Disney’s “Jungle Book”

Bill Murray to sing as Baloo the Bear in Disney’s “Jungle Book”

PanARMENIAN.Net - Bill Murray will sing in character as Baloo the Bear in The Jungle Book, Digital Spy said.

Iron Man director Jon Favreau is updating the 1967 Disney classic which featured songs like 'The Bare Necessities' and 'I Wanna Be Like You.'

Entertainment Weekly says Favreau has described the film as "not a musical" but "wanted to work in the more memorable moments from the '67 film".

When asked if that would include classic 'The Bare Necessities', he added: "Oh, yeah! How do you not do that?"

The live-action film is currently being shot with Christopher Walken, Idris Elba and Ben Kingsley lending their voices respectively as orangutan King Louie, villainous tiger Shere Khan and panther Bagheera.

Lupita Nyong'o as wolf mother Rackcha and Scarlett Johansson as hypnotic snake Kaa round out the cast.

They will all provide motion capture and voices for CG animals with 10-year-old Neel Sethi appearing as himself on-screen as Mowgli.

The film is due for release on October 9, 2015.

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