Disney just released a set of brand new posters for Jon Favreau’s upcoming live-action adaptation of The Jungle Book. Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o and two-time SAG Award winner Idris Elba are bringing their voices to the movie.  The two are getting cuddly with their CGI-generated animal characters in the new shoot. And the pictures are simply stunning.
Lupita will voice mama wolf Raksha who adopts “man cub” Mowgli and raises him as part of her pack after he's abandoned in the jungle as an infant.
The Kenyan beauty had this to say (via press release) about her character, “She is the protector, the eternal mother. The word Raksha actually means protection in Hindi. I felt really connected to that, wanting to protect a son that isn’t originally hers, but one she’s taken for her own.”