Plumford, a sort of kinder, gentler Basil Fawlty and Lena Headey (the upstairs maid from "The Remains of the Day") as Kitty, the Colonel's spirited daughter. The cast includes Jason Scott Lee as Mowgli Cary Elwes as Major Boone Sam Neill as Colonel Brydon, the regimental commander John Cleese as Dr. While the director's only previous feature, the 1993 Disney remake of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," did not stray far from Twain's text, Kipling purists should note the caveat in the opening credits of the new film: "Based on characters created by Rudyard Kipling." Sommers cites Curtiz's "Captain Blood" and "The Sea Hawk" as important influences on the present film. Sommers calls a "romantic adventure movie" in the tradition of his favorite director, Michael Curtiz. Instead, Mowgli, Baloo, Bagheera and the other famous jungle creatures become a point of departure for what Mr. Nor did he see any way to weld the eight stories about Mowgli as a youth into a coherent narrative, as Alexander Korda tried to do in his 1942 version. Stephen Sommers, the director and principal writer, says he decided to transform the familiar tale because no one could compete with the earlier animated effort. Still, Major Boone and Kitty are at the center of "Rudyard Kipling's 'Jungle Book,' " a $30 million Disney film that opens today. Who are these people? Major Boone, a smirking villain, and Kitty are certainly not in Rudyard Kipling's books, nor were they in the two previous "Jungle Book" movies, neither the 1942 live-action version with Sabu or Disney's animated version in 1967.
Major Boone has kidnapped the lovely heroine Kitty, and a second after he touches a match to the liquid, the two of them stare in wonder as flames race along a passageway. "PHEW," SAYS MAJOR Boone after tasting the liquid dripping from a dank corridor in a ruined Indian city.
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