6. The Jungle Book



Doubts were raised when Disney announced it was making a live-action version of its beloved animated classic, The Jungle Book. But those fears faded fast when the results were seen. The fact that Neel Sethi, as young Mowgli, was the only real thing in a CG jungle populated with CG animals was almost hard to believe, such was the level of "reality" achieved by those artists. And after launching the current wave of superhero movies with Iron Man, director Jon Favreau has now buoyed Disney’s live-action remakes of its animated classics and is himself attached to The Lion King and Jungle Book 2.