Today, Disney unveiled the first teaser for Jon Favreau’s The Jungle Book, an eye-popping blend of live action and photorealistic CGI that promises to make Mowgli’s sojourn through the bush much more thrilling this time around. (Watch the clip above.)

The latest in the Mouse House’s remake parade, The Jungle Book is inspired by the jazzy 1967 cartoon classic, itself loosely based on a series of Rudyard Kipling stories about a young boy raised in the wilds of the Indian subcontinent.

The 1-minute, 46-second clip opens with quick cuts of the jungle canopy, a river, and then our young hero Mowgli (Neel Sethi) listening to seductive hiss of Kaa the python: “Are you lonely here? What are you doing so deep in the jungle?” The menacing snake is far cry from the googly eyed goof in the 1967 film and, in another departure, is female, voiced by Scarlett Johansson.

“The original film was a little male-heavy so we changed the character of Kaa,” says Favreau, who exclusively invited Yahoo Movies to screen the 3D version of the trailer at his production suite in the heart of Los Angeles’s Silicon Beach. “We thought that Scarlett, who I’ve worked with a few times, would be perfect. Her voice is so emotive.”

“Poor, sweet little cub, I’ll keep you close. Let go of your fear now,” Kaa says, continuing to entrance the boy as a series of images flashes by, at once familiar and new: Shere Khan the terrible tiger returning to the jungle; Bagheera the black panther discovering the orphaned baby boy; Mowgli and Baloo sauntering through the woods; the elephant army; the monkey minions of King Louie, the primate overlord obsessed with humans; Shere Khan and Bagheera facing off; a jungle engulfed in flame.

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