The Lord of the Rings and Planet of the Apes motion-capture legend Andy Serkis will direct. Serkis has said his film will be darker and grittier than Disney’s adaptation of the Kipling work. Two nearly identical films being made by different studios, within two years of each other, is more common than it sounds. Hollywood is actually filled with examples of what the industry has dubbed “twin films.” Sometimes similar scripts bounce around Hollywood studios and production companies, resulting in analogous films. Sometimes there’s a race to produce a film based on a major current event or celebrity death. And sometimes, twin films are just the result of a weird coincidence. In the case of Mowgli, the film was in development before Disney’s The Jungle Book was even announced.