Over the past several weeks it has been revealed that several movies have switched release dates. These include Warner Brothers Pan the and the newly titled The Jungle Book: Origins and Kong: Skull Island. Pan has moved from July 17th, 2015 to July 13th, 2015. The Jungle Book Origins (Warner Brothers Version) moves from October 21st, 2016 to October 6th, 2017. And lastly Kong: Skull Island moves from November 4th, 2016 to March 10th, 2017.

That is correct we are going to have two separate The Jungle Book remake films. It's going to be a lot like when Mirror, Mirror and Snow White & the Hunstman came out in the same year. Currently both Andy Serkis (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey) and Jon Favreau (Elf, Iron Man) will both be directing a Jungle Book remake for Warner Bros and Disney respectively.

Now The Hollywood Reporter has announced that Oscar-winner Lupita Nyong'o (12 Years a Slave) is in final negotiations to voice Rakcha the wolf mother who adopts Mowgli into her wolf pack. While Scarlett Johansson (The Avengers, Her) who has already lent her voice to this years best original screenplay Her, is in early discussions to voice Kaa the hypnotizing python.

They both if signed will join Idris Elba who is already signed onto voice Shere Khan the man-eating tiger.

Today Variety reported that Andy Serkis is set to make his directorial debut in The Jungle Book for Warner Bros. This isn't to be confused with Disney's The Jungle Book remake which currently stars Idris Elba as Shere Khan and Jon Favreau (Iron Man) directing.

This will be Andy Serkis first feature film he will direct even though he did second unit directing on The Hobbit trilogy. Serkis is best known for pioneering motion capture performances in The Lord of the Rings, King Kong and Rise of The Planet of the Apes films.