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The latest clip from The Jungle Book features Bill Murray as Baloo the Bear

"Baloo" Clip - Disney's The Jungle Book
Jon Favreau’s upcoming, live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book has quite a few notable actors voicing the film’s jungle-inhabiting creatures, but one pairing of cast and character that’s generating a lot of buzz is Bill Murray’s portrayal of Baloo, the carefree bear who becomes a guardian of sorts for the human boy at the heart of the story.

A while back, the very first clip from The Jungle Book offered us our first look — or rather, listen — at Luther star Idris Elba voicing the terrifying tiger Shere Khan. The latest clip from the April film does the same for Murray’s Baloo, and provides a hint at what we can expect when the famous funnyman lends his voice to one of the story’s most popular characters.

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Directed by Favreau, The Jungle Book is intended to be a live-action adaptation of the 1967 animated feature inspired by Rudyard Kipling’s famous story of a young boy raised by jungle creatures. Kipling’s story was first published in 1893. The script for the film was penned by Justin Marks (RewindStreet Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li), and the cast includes a long list of celebrated actors taking on the iconic creatures that populate the jungles of India.

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Along with Murray as Baloo and Elba as Shere Khan, young actor Neel Sethi plays Mowgli, an orphaned human boy raised in the jungle who must learn how to be a man. The cast of voice actors also includes Scarlett Johansson as the hypnotizing python Kaa, Christopher Walken as the gigantic orangutan lord King Louie, Giancarlo Esposito as Mowgli’s adoptive wolf-father Akela, Lupita Nyong’o as Mowgli’s adoptive mother Raksha, and Ben Kingsley as the stern panther Bagheera.

The Jungle Book hits theaters April 15.

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