The crew approved of the casting choice as they felt it was right to cast a completely unknown voice in a film with various celebrity voices.

When the crew was dissatisfied with all the auditions for Mowgli, director Wolfgang Reitherman suggested casting his own 11-year-old son, Bruce Reitherman, as Mowgli due to his enthusiasm for the project. Originally child actor David Alan Bailey was meant to voice Mowgli but the crew decided he was no longer fit for the part when his voice broke due to hitting puberty during production, forcing the crew to find a new voice for the character. Mowgli was animated by Frank Thomas, Ollie Johnston, and Milt Kahl. The crew also decided against following Mowgli's bildungsroman character arc from the books in favor of a more simple coming-of-age story in which Mowgli has to come to terms with his inevitable manhood as he faces various obstacles in the jungle. How exactly is unknown, but it can be concluded that a messy river accident claimed their lives.Īlthough storyboard artist Bill Peet wanted Mowgli's character arc to be more accurate to the source material, in which Mowgli goes back and forth from the jungle to civilization, Walt Disney and Wolfgang Reitherman decided against following the book's dark and complex narrative in favor of a more light-hearted and straightforward story.

His biological parents were nowhere to be found, but it is implied that they died not too long before Mowgli was discovered by Bagheera. In the first scene of the film, Mowgli, as an infant, was found in a battered canoe. However, the threat of Shere Khan forces the pack to send him away, and Bagheera decides to take him to a nearby man-village for his protection. Apparently orphaned, Mowgli was raised by a pack of wolves until he was 10 years old. Mowgli is a human child, who was found in a basket on the edge of a torn-apart boat as a baby by Bagheera, a black panther, with that fraction of a boat laying on a rock and its rear pointing up.

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